1International percolations of disability aesthetics in dance and theatre

Performing Illness: A Dialogue About an Invisibly Disabled Dancing Body

“…Through an autoethnographic analysis and phenomenological approach to illness (Carel, 2008(Carel, , 2016, this article draws on Pini's lived experience of coping with cancer and dancing through illness (Pini and Pini, 2019), in dialogue with Maguire-Rosier's study of dancers with hidden impairments (Gibson and Maguire-Rosier, 2020). This opinion paper is based on an ongoing conversation between the two authors which began at the time of their Ph.D. projects at Macquarie University, Sydney, addressing the dancing body across different but parallel fields: cognitive science (see, for example, Pini et al, 2016;Pini and Sutton, 2021;Pini and Deans, in press) and dance theatre performance (see, for example, Maguire-Rosier, 2016;Czymoch et al, 2020).…”