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On Performance and Disability

Differentiated Bodies and the Aesthetics of Invasion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2025

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Abstract

Physical and cognitive disabilities are part of many people’s lives. They are the existential marks some performers carry and emphasize through their art in order to transcend them and embrace disability in a nonstigmatizing way. The performances of Felipe Monteiro, Nicola Fornoni, and Kamil Guenatri claim space for difference and diversity and reject assistentialist, protectionist, and pseudo-inclusive approaches that prescribe and perpetuate stigmas.

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TDR , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , March 2025 , pp. 86 - 111
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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