This section foregrounds the issue of physical ability in dancing bodies, exploring the spectrum of aesthetic possibilities from the greatly challenged body to the extraordinarily skilled body, integrating diversities of ability in dance with social and cultural ideas about physical skill, relationships between machines and the body, kinds of ability and disability, cultural stereotypes associated with physical abilities, and issues in Disability Rights legislation.
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- Primary Sources
- Introduction
- 1.) Exploring the Connections Between Bodies and Machines
- 2.) Human/Machine Interactions
- 3.) Exploring the Connections Between Technology and Technique
- 4.) The Highly Skilled Body
- 5.) Continuum of Ability in Dance
- 6.) Ability and Autonomy / Re-conceptualizing ability
- 7.) Reconfiguring Ability: Limitations as Possibilities
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