Elena Backhausen is a research assistant at the Institute of Film, Theatre, Media, and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

Benjamin Wihstutz is an Assistant Professor (Junorprofessor) of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany. He is principal investigator within the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1482) "Humandifferenzierung" with a project on disability performance history, funded by the German Research Association.

Noa Winter is a curator and dramaturg with a focus on disability arts and anti-ableism, based in Berlin, Germany.

Acknowledgements

Contributors Bio

Introduction

Part I: Crip Time in Pandemic Time

Chapter 1. Our Bodies Are the Archive: Crip Time in Pandemic Time and the Materiality of Disability Performance

Carrie Sandahl

Chapter 2. Disability Culture in a Time of Pandemic

Jess Thom

Chapter 3. On imperfect flow: dis/ability performance in times of pandemic

Benjamin Wihstutz

Chapter 4. Crip Time

Petra Kuppers

Part II: Dramaturgies of Crip Time

Chapter 5. Dance, Disability and Keeping 'In Time' on Strictly

Sarah Whatley

Chapter 6. Off-beat bodies. Crip Choreography's Temporal Politicality

Michael Turinsky

Chapter 7. Imposed Tactlessness. Cursory Considerations on the Beyond of Normative Time

Sandra Umathum

Chapter 8. Kairos Reconfigured: The Rhetoric of Actors with Intellectual Disabilities Stepping In and Out of Theatrical Time

Tony McCaffrey

Chapter 9. On the temporality of stuttering

Elena Backhausen

Chapter 10. Time-Bound Yet Time-Less: Performing Crip Time at Blind Opera and Anyadesh

Rajdeep Konar

Chapter 11. I Fall To Pieces

Kaite O'Reilly

Part III: Crip Time and Futurity

Chapter 12. Future Clinic for Critical Care: MOTHER - Exploring crip maternal time in the theatre

Nina Mühlemann

Chapter 13. As Stiff Grew Stiffer: Theoretical and Practical Applications of Theatrical Crip Time and Four-Dimensional Dramaturgy

John Michael Sefel and Rachael Herren

Chapter 14. Crip Time and the Creative Process - Choreography and Performance as Sites for Exploring 'Normative' and 'Crip' Time and the Disabled Dance-maker

Kate Marsh

Chapter 15. The Potential and Poetics of Rest

Raquel Meseguer Zafe

Index