Performing Care

Introduction: caring performance, performing care – Amanda Stuart Fisher Part I Performing interrelatedness 1 Care ethics and improvisation: can performance care? – Maurice Hamington 2 Towards an aesthetics of care – James Thompson 3 Performing tenderness: fluidity and reciprocity in the performance of caring in Fevered Sleep’s Men & Girls Dance – Amanda Stuart Fisher Part II Care-filled performance 4 Caring beyond illness: an examination of Godder’s socially engaged art and participatory dance for Parkinson’s work – Sara Houston 5 Convivial theatre: care and debility in collaborations between non-disabled and learning disabled theatre makers – Dave Calvert 6 Road care – Jen Archer-Martin and Julieanna Preston Part III Care deficits 7 Clean Break: a practical politics of care – Caoimhe McAvinchey 8 Performing a museum of living memories: beholding young people’s experiences and expressions of care through oral history performance – Kathleen Gallagher and Rachel Turner-King 9 'Still Lives': Syrian displacement and care in contemporary Beirut – Ella Parry-Davies Part IV Care as performance 10 Verbatim practice as research with care-experienced young people: an ‘aesthetics of care’ through aural attention – Sylvan Baker and Maggie Inchley 11 Acts of care: applied drama, 'sympathetic presence' and person-centred nursing – Matt Jennings, Pat Deeny and Karl Tizzard-Kleister 12 Taking care of the laundry in care homes – Jayne Lloyd 13 Performing the ‘aesthetics of care’ – James Thompson -- .