Dance, Disability and Law

Sarah Whatley is professor of dance at Coventry University. Charlotte Waelde is professor of intellectual property law at Coventry University. Shawn Harmon is a deputy director at the Mason Institute. Abbe Brown is a reader at the University of Aberdeen. Karen Wood is a dance practitioner, researcher, and educator. Hetty Blades is a research fellow at Coventry University.

Preface
Sita Popat
 
Introduction
Sarah Whatley, Charlotte Waelde, Shawn Harmon, Abbe Brown, Karen Wood, Kate Marsh and Mathilde Pavis
 
Section I: Disability, Dance and Critical Frameworks




Chapter 1: Disabled Dance: Barriers to Proper Inclusion within Our Cultural Milieu

Shawn Harmon, Charlotte Waelde and Sarah Whatley
 
Chapter 2: Cultural Heritage and the Unseen Community

Fiona Macmillan
 
Chapter 3: An Analysis of Reporting and Monitoring in Relation to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Right to Participation in Cultural Life and Intellectual Property

Catherine Easton
 
Chapter 4: A Dance of Difference: The Tripartite Model of Disability and the Cultural Heritage of Dance

David Bolt and Heidi Mapley
 
Chapter 5: In a Different Light? Broadening the Bioethics Perspective through Dance

Shawn Harmon
 
Section II: Disability, Dance and the Demands of a New Aesthetic




Chapter 6: A Wondering (in Three Parts)

Luke Pell
 
Chapter 7: A New Foundation: Physical Integrity, Disabled Dance and Cultural Heritage

Abbe Brown, Shawn Harmon, Kate Marsh, Mathilde Pavis, Charlotte Waelde, Sarah Whatley and Karen Wood
 
Chapter 8: Disability and Dance: The Disabled Sublime or Joyful Encounters?

Janice Richardson
 
Chapter 9: Moving Towards a New Aesthetic: Dance and Disability

Shawn Harmon, Kate Marsh, Sarah Whatley and Karen Wood
 
Chapter 10: What We Can Do with Choreography, and What Choreography Can Do with Us

A conversation between Catherine Long and Nicola Conibere
 
Chapter 11: Dancing Identity: The Journey from Freak to Hero and Beyond

Eimir McGrath
 
Chapter 12: Dance Disability and Aesthetics: A Changing Discourse

Margaret Ames
 
Section III: Disability, Dance and Audience Engagement




Chapter 13: The (Disabled) Artist Is Present

Claire Cunningham
 
Chapter 14: Disability, Disabled Dance Audiences and the Dilemma of Neuroaesthetic Approaches to Perception and Interpretation

Bree Hadley
 
Chapter 15: Finding It When You Get There

Adam Benjamin