La disabilità tra spettacolarizzazione e drammatizzazione

the field of performing art. The aim of this work is to show how the perception of a disabled performer depends both on the consideration of disability in a particular historical period and on the narration in which we see him/her. For that reason, I propose to take for instance two different periods: the beginning of Twentieth century, when disability has been still turned into show and nowadays when some artists translate the illness into dramatic codes. The main hypothesis is that the artistic practices go beyond both stereotypes and available scientific theories, creating further lens for the reading of disability