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Title	How Disability Performance Travels in Australia: The Reality Under the Rhetoric
Creator Contributors	Kath Duncan, Author Bree Hadley, Author Madeleine Little, Author Eddie Paterson, Author
Abstract/Description	The last three decades has witnessed the development of a distinct narrative about how disability performance has become a much celebrated component of the Australian theatre landscape. A central aspect of this narrative is the critical importance of festivals, events, and other industry initiatives that allow disabled performers to travel – both conceptually and corporeally – to meet and be mentored by other artists, and to present their work to new and more mainstream audiences, in new spaces and places, around the country, and around the world. In this chapter, we draw on historical data, collected as part of an AusStage ARC LIEF project designed to database information about disability drama, theatre, performance, and dance over the past 100 years, as well as the Last Avant Garde ARC Linkage project on disability performance in Australia, to unpack areas where the reality seems to challenge some of the dominant rhetoric.
Genre	Artist(s) with disability Arts and disability Performer(s) with disability
Item URL	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003231066-6/disability-performance-travels-australia-bree-hadley-eddie-paterson-madeleine-little-kath-duncan
Publisher	Routledge
Volume	How Does Disability Performance Travel?
Page	Chapter 4 (15 pages)
Date Issued	12 December 2023
Language	English
ISBN 13	9781003231066 eBook
Citation	Bree Hadley, Eddie Paterson, Kath Duncan, Madeleine Little, How Disability Performance Travels in Australia: The Reality Under the Rhetoric, Routledge, How Does Disability Performance Travel?, 12 December 2023, Chapter 4 (15 pages)
Data Set	AusStage
Resource Identifier	79065