[Candrama] Release: DRAMATURGIES OF ACCESSIBILITY, open access P/M journal issue

Mon Jan 5 16:40:09 EST 2026

Such an honour to be part of this project!
Many congratulations to all!
Thank you for including me!

Respect,
jill

Jill Carter

Associate Director Graduate, CDTPS

Associate Professor

Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (CDTPS);

Transitional Year Programme;

Indigenous Studies

University of Toronto

Zoom has erected its headquarters in San Jose, CA, while Skype has erected one key arm of its operations in Pao Alta, CA.  This is the traditional territory of the Muwekma Ohlone tribal nation. Current members of this  nation are direct descendants of the many missionized tribal groups from across the region. We who are able to virtually connect with each other are deeply indebted to the Muwekma Ohlone people, as the lands and waters they continue to steward now support the people, pipelines, and technologies that carry our breaths, images, and words across vast distances to others.

As I engage in written communications such as this email, I personally acknowledge the debt I have incurred and that is amassing each time I open my laptop. We are all indebted to those peoples and communities whose waters and lands have been poisoned as a result of the extraction of metals and rare-earth elements required to fabricate the machinery through which we speak to, hear from, and view each other. We are indebted to those peoples whose working lives, youth and vitality have been spent in unsafe spaces and intolerable conditions, so that so many citizens of the so-called developed world might have easy access to these and related devices. As we encounter each other each day through our email accounts, our messaging apps, our virtual meeting rooms and chat rooms, let us strive to remain mindful of the incalculable debt we owe.

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It is with huge pleasure and gratitude that I announce the release of DRAMATURGIES OF ACCESSIBILITY, an international double issue of the open access journal Performance Matters, co-edited by Pil Hansen and Jessica Watkin.

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  links

Dramaturgies<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398996070_Dramaturgies_of_Accessibility> of Accessibility (editorial)<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/551>

Pil Hansen and Jessica Watkin

Editing for Access<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/553>: Practices and Reflections<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/553>

Amorena Bartlett, Kelsie Acton, Graham Percy, and Pil Hansen

Mad Conductors: Pathways of Attention and Dances of Care<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/555>

Stephanie Heit and Alexis Riley

Carbon Movements<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398996444_Carbon_Movements_Relational_Dramaturgy_in_Deaf_and_Hearing_Dance_Creation>: Relational Dramaturgy in Deaf and Hearing Dance Creation <https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/557>

Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Ainsley Hillyard, and Pil Hansen

Through My Lens: An Act of Telling in Exchange<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/559>

James Long, Amy Amantea, and Nico Dicecco

Fragments are Enough: Re-Stor(y)ing the ‘Wasteland’<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/561>

Jill Carter and Jessica Watkin

Improvising Fugitive Access: Drafting Care in a Disability Arts and Culture Classroom<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/563>

Miguel Esteban

Somatic Care Performances: Turtle Disco and Tendings<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/565>

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<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/567>

Julia Hales, Sam Fox, Renée Newman, and Simone Flavelle

Cognitive Accessibility, Ethics, and Rights in Research<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/569>

Matthew Reason, Kelsie Acton, and Daniel Foulds

Tracking deaf aesthetics in deaf spaces: Dramaturgical decisions for plays by deaf led teams<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/571>

Joanne Weber, Thurga Kanagasekarampillai, Connor Yuzwenko-Martin, Chris Dodd, and Crystal Jones.

The Artistic Access Residency Creazioni Accessibili: Audio Description Dramaturgy in Contemporary Dance  <https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/571>

Giuseppe Comuniello, Flavia Dalila D’Amico, and Camilla Guarino

Sighted Assumptions to Blind Imaginings: De-Centering Vision as Unexpected Dramaturgy<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/575>

Alex Bulmer

Rigorous Dreaming: Curatorial Practices for Large Scale Disability Performance<https://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/article/view/577>

Shay Erlich and Sarah Conn

Pil Hansen, PhD

Professor

School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary

General Editor Routledge Book Series: Expanded Dramaturgy; Dramaturg (e.g., Vertical City, KAEJA, Invisible Practice, Su-Feh Lee)

Note that I also am a physically disabled person, working reduced load.

Pil Hansen, PhD

Professor

School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary

General Editor Routledge Book Series: Expanded Dramaturgy; Dramaturg (e.g., Vertical City, KAEJA, Invisible Practice, Su-Feh Lee)

Note that I also am a physically disabled person, working reduced load.

Books

Performance Generating Systems in Dance: Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity<https://www.intellectbooks.com/performance-generating-systems-in-dance> (Intellect 2022)

Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/performing-the-remembered-present-9781474284714/> (Methuen 2017)

Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement<http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/dance-dramaturgy-pil-hansen/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137373212> (Palgrave 2015)

Articles and book chapters

Download free pre-prints and open access versions from researchgate.<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pil-Hansen/research>

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