Performing care: new perspectives on socially engaged performance

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.