Disability as dialogue
Engaging with disability as an embodied way of knowing in Parkinson’s
dance research
This chapter takes a view of disability as embodied
knowing. This knowing formed the basis for a collaborative research process
between dancers with Parkinson’s disease, dance practitioners and university
researchers. Drawing on dialogic communication theory and critical
disability studies, we develop a dialogic and discursive theorization of
embodied knowing by centering on the productive particularities of disabled
embodiment in and about Parkinson’s dance as important forms and sites of
knowledge production. The analysis focuses on data from dance sessions and
discussion panels in a dance and research symposium in which disability is
examined and thematized in terms of productive ways of knowing. By
displaying critical insights into dialogic enactments and articulations of
embodied knowing, the analysis shows how a framing of disability
as dialogue enriches our understanding of particular
marginalized forms of embodiment in and about dance.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Dialogic co-production in Parkinson’s dance research
- 3.Disability as dialogue in a symposium on Parkinson’s dance
- 4.Articulating a discourse of embodied knowing
- 4.1Affirmative expressions of unity across bodily diversity
- 4.2Artistic expressions of embodied difference
- 5.Oppositional voices and silences: Contesting the validity of embodied knowing through internalized
ableism and absences of bodies
- 6.Final remarks
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Notes
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