How to Dance Sitting Down: Aging, Innovation and the Graying of Disability

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Hearing this may give the impression that aging and disability are one and the same. It is perhaps due to this sensibility that aging as a topic in disability studies has been somewhat overlooked. This lecture will look at the notion of disability in aging, not as a mark of precarity but of capability. Prof. Michael Davidson's particular focus will be on Samuel Beckett, whose characters are often aging disabled, characters for whom bodily and sensory decay are central to their ability to "go on." Prof. Davidson will also use the work of writers and artists such as Beethoven, Henry James, and Merce Cunningham, who continued to create and experiment formally while becoming increasingly disabled in later years. Free.

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