EXCITED to announce the release of DRAMATURGIES OF ACCESSIBILITY! Check out this free Performance Matters issue @ https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm SHARE with your friends 
In this rich resource, authors consider the creative and educational potentials that emerge when we place the strengths of people with disabilities at the centre of our ways of working. Dramaturgical agency derives from awareness about how creative ideas are sourced, how collaboration is organized, the design of creative processes and methods, and how composition affects audiences. Authors directs such agency towards: (1) understanding how disability troubles normative ways of working; (2) working and learning with the people in in the room; (3) expanding ways of imagining, communicating, and sensing; (4) working with the aesthetics, ethos, and rigorous practices of accessibility; and (5) Re-stor(y)ing to produce accessible realities. We invite you to draw inspiration and partake in a growing community of knowledge on dramaturgies of accessibility.
The issue is published in large font with plain language abstracts, image descriptions, and curated ASL and/or voice versions.
It has been an honour to work with my co-editor, Jessica Watkin; the insightful, generous, and beautifully diverse authors named below; and the full editorial team of Performance Matters. Thank you!
DRAMATURGIES OF ACCESSIBILITY contents:
‘Dramaturgies of Accessibility’ (editorial) by Pil Hansen and Jessica Watkin https://www.researchgate.net/…/398996070_Dramaturgies…
‘Editing for Access: Practices and Reflections’ by Amorena Bartlett, Kelsie Acton, Graham Percy, and Pil Hansen https://www.researchgate.net/…/398995909_Editing_for…
‘Mad Conductors: Pathways of Attention and Dramaturgies of Care’ by Stephanie Heit and Alexis Riley
‘Carbon Movements: Relational Dramaturgy in Deaf and Hearing Dance Creation’ by Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Ainsley Hillyard, and Pil Hansen https://www.researchgate.net/…/398996444_Carbon…
‘Through My Lens: An Act of Telling in Exchange’ by James Long, Amy Amantea, and Nico Dicecco
‘Fragments are Enough: Re-Stor(y)ing the ‘Wasteland’’ by Jill Carter and Jessica Watkin
‘Improvising Fugitive Access: Drafting Care in a Disability Arts and Culture Classroom’ by Miguel Esteban
‘Somatic Care Performances: Turtle Disco and Tendings’ by Petra Kuppers with Jessica Watkin, VK Preston, Nadine Changfoot, Cassandra Hartblay, and Becky Gold
‘The Together Research: Exploring Equity and Autonomy in Disability-Led Performing Arts Research in Western Australia’ by Julia Hales, Sam Fox, RenĂ©e Newman, and Simone Flavelle
‘Cognitive Accessibility, Ethics, and Rights in Research’ by Matthew Reason, Kelsie Acton, and Daniel Foulds
‘Tracking Deaf Aesthetics in Deaf Spaces: Dramaturgical Decisions for Plays by Deaf-led Teams’ by Joanne Weber, Thurga Kanagasekarampillai, Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Chris Dodd, and Crystal Jones.
‘The Artistic Access Residency Creazioni Accessibili: Audio Description Dramaturgy in Contemporary Dance’ by Giuseppe Comuniello, Flavia Dalila D’Amico, and Camilla Guarino
‘Sighted Assumptions to Blind Imaginings: De-Centering Vision as Unexpected Dramaturgy’ by Alex Bulmer
‘Rigorous Dreaming: Curatorial Practices for Large Scale Disability Performance’ by Shay Erlich and Sarah Conn
Warm regards,
Pil