Disability Performance Art in the Global East

Disability Performance Art in the Global East: Exploring Multi-Embodiments across Bodies and Aesthetics
This seminar will explore the challenges and new horizons for cross-bodies aesthetics offered by disability performance art and the ways this field promotes engagement across diverse bodies and sensory experiences in the Global East-Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East. We frame this within the realms of “new multiculturalism” politics and performance, unifying three lines of inquiry: The anthropological study of the political impact of theater and dance; Disability studies’ examination of how disability performance art reshapes perceptions of bodymind differences; And ethnographic investigations into cross-regional cultural and artistic exchange in the Global East. The seminar, organized as two roundtables, will place the body and senses at the forefront of analyzing social disparities and navigating multiplicity, investigating the impact of different adaptations within Global East regions on disability arts.
Chairs:
Gili Hammer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daria Melnikova, Sainsbury Institute for The Study of Japanese Arts And Culture
15:00-15:50: Scholarly prespectives
Speakers:
Dr. Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych - researcher of disability studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ethnology Institute, actress of the performance "Rock. Scissors. Paper." And Uliana Roy - director of the integration theater "And Laughter and Tears", director of the performance "Rock. Scissors. Paper"
Prof. Yuichiro Nagatsu, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University.
Ebisu Sign Language Theatre: Prof. Atay Citron, The University of Haifa , director, Lee Dan. Ebisu performer & dramaturge, Elvira Okhotin, Ebisu performer
16:00-17:00: Artists’ reflections
Eastern-European perspective
Theater And Laughter and Tears, Ukraine:
Anastasiya Oleksyuk - writer, actress of the integration Theater And Laughter and Tears, actress of the performance “Rock. Scissors. Paper”.
Ivanna Oryshchak - actress of the performance “Rock. Scissors. Paper”
Mariia Kosiihuck - coordinator of the “Rock. Scissors. Paper” project
Event is a part of the Disability Studies in Eastern Europe - Reconfigurations research platform. This research was funded by the Priority Research Area Heritage under the program Excellence Initiative - Research University at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
More information: disability-in-easteurope.project.uj.edu.pl
Inclusive dance and theater in Croatia:
Dr. Ivan Hromatko, Trešnjevka Cultural Centre, founder of UPSET art festival Vojin Perić, director of the Novi život (Theatrical Company New Life of blind and visually impaired people)
Gordana Svetopetrić, dance artist and contemporary dance teacher, founder of Magija dance collective
Middle-Eastern perspectives
Amir Ishar - interdisciplinary dif-ability artist (dancer, performer, actor)
Iddo Gruengard - interdisciplinary artist (Architect, performer, director)
East-Asian perspectives
Audrey Perera - True Colors Festival
Kazuyo Morita - dancer and actor, Ph.D. student at Osaka University