Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and Pedagogy

✍ Scribed by Julie-Ann Scott (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Series: Creativity, Education and the Arts
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book follows a physically disabled researcher's journey from stigmatized embodiment on her way to creating accessible storytelling performances. These unique performances function not only as traditional, peer-reviewed forms of critical qualitative research, but also as ‘narrative teaching productions’ that guide students and their audiences in the pursuit of social justice and equality. The book begins by developing the author's personal standpoint, and provides an evocative discussion of the multiple perceptions and identities experienced by those with disabled bodies. It negotiates how performance research can be created and conducted within the confines of course learning objectives, moves through complications encountered in research design and data collection, and explores a range of insightful responses from community members, social activists, and performance critics, as well as more traditional academic audiences. Critical autoethnographic personal narratives, performance scripts, and poetry are used to illuminate struggles over legitimate methodological practice and storytelling performance pedagogy. Each chapter confronts the fear of mortality that presses us to stigmatize those who remind us of our inescapably vulnerable embodiments and offers hope for an inclusive, adaptable culture. The book will be compelling reading for scholars in Performance Studies, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Narrative Methodology, Ethnography, Higher Education, Autoethnography, Creative Nonfiction and everyone interested embodiment and/or storytelling for social change.

Please visit www.uncwstorytelling.org/chapter-summaries-1 to access supplementary material for the book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv
Chapter 1: Researcher Positioning as Embodied Experience (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 1-25
Chapter 2: Connecting to the Bodies We Research (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 27-51
Chapter 3: There’s No Center Without the Margins—Revealing Compulsory Performance to Achieve Audience Empathy (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 53-75
Chapter 4: Creating Accessible, Pedagogical Storytelling Performances as Research—Take 1 (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 77-98
A Performance Transcription Exercise (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 99-107
Chapter 5: Can Rigorous Research Be Art for the Masses? A Student/Teacher Debrief (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 109-114
Chapter 6: Hyper-Embodiment and Outsider-Research-Pursuing Empathy and Connection in the Field (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 115-129
Chapter 7: Creating Accessible, Pedagogical Art as Research—Take 2 (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 131-146
Chapter 8: Can Rigorous Research Be for the Masses? A Second Student/Teacher Debrief (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 147-152
Chapter 9: Compromising Methodology for Open Audiences (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 153-168
Chapter 10: In Conclusion—A Call for Hyper-Embodied Performance Research Pedagogy for Social Justice (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 169-185
Chapter 11: Epilogue—The Next Performance Ethnographic Show in Pursuit of Hyper-Embodiment (Julie-Ann Scott)....Pages 187-190
Back Matter ....Pages 191-211

✦ Subjects

Creativity and Arts Education