Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: MAKING A HOME Landscaping: Spacings Dancing Stories about Home: A Community Dance Residency in a Hospice in New Zealand Community Arts and Practices: Improvising Being-Together PART II: RHIZOMES/CONNECTIONS Toward a Rhizomatic Model of Disability: Poetry, Performance, and Touch Burning Butoh: Self/Community Rhizome: Choreography of a Moving Self Rhizome: Collaboration Rhizome: Beyond Story, Community Performance and Somatic Poetics PART III: MEMORY TOUCH Introduction: Desirous History Performing Anarcha Remembering Anarcha The Anarcha Project Performative Lecture The Anarcha Project: A Process Report PART IV: SENSUAL HISTORY AND MYTH-MAKING Introduction Tiresian Journeys Teaching Disability Culture: Reflections on Tiresias in the Classroom Epilogue Bibliography Index