Kelsie Acton
Biographic Data
| ID | 9606004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelsie Acton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelsie |
| FAMILY NAME | Acton |
| SIGNATURE | ACTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Battersea Arts Centre |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2041-9493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Editing for Access: Practices and Reflections
This article describes the approach to editing for access that was developed for the “Dramaturgies of Accessibility” issue of Performance Matters from 2024 to 2025. This approach was designed to be sustainable for independent publishers and strengthen a diverse community of knowledge. Sustainability is achieved by making resource-based choices about the forms of access provided and by distributing access work within a community while enabling eac…
Cognitive Accessibility, Ethics, and Rights in Research
This paper is about doing research with artists with learning disabilities and autism. Artists with learning disabilities or autism need to say yes to doing research. Researchers need to explain what will happen in the research. Often, researchers think that people with learning disabilities and autism can’t say yes to being part of research. This means researchers don’t study things that are important to people with learning disabilities and aut…
A Generous Incantation: Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada
Interdependent Magic, curated by Jessica Watkin, is the first anthology of plays by disabled Canadian playwrights from Playwrights Canada Press. It includes pieces by Alex Bulmer, the Boys in Chairs Collective, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Chris Dodd, as well as an interview with Niall McNeil. In this review, Kelsie Acton considers the ways in which the strength of this volume lies not just in the quality and diversity of playwriting featured but also …
Video: Collaborating on Togetherness and Futurity in Disability Arts
Stepping back: Reflecting on accessibility in integrated dance improvisation
Finding more accessible ways to train, create, perform and work is a major concern of researchers and practitioners (Ajula & Redding, 2013, 2014) of integrated and disability dance. In the spring of 2017 eight dancer/researchers from CRIPSiE, an integrated, disability and crip dance company located in Edmonton, came together to investigate their practices of timing through a participatory performance creation process. Participatory performance cr…
Encountering Music: Songs Seen, Felt, and Heard
The aesthetics of accessibility, where considerations of access shape both the creation and presentation of a production, are a driving force in Canadian Deaf and disability theatre. In this article, we reflect on sound, music, access, and audism in Songs My Mother Never Sung Me, a bilingual American Sign Language (ASL) and sung English chamber opera written and composed by Dave Clarke and produced by Concrete Theatre at SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre…
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Encountering Music: Songs Seen, Felt, and Heard
The aesthetics of accessibility, where considerations of access shape both the creation and presentation of a production, are a driving force in Canadian Deaf and disability theatre. In this article, we reflect on sound, music, access, and audism in Songs My Mother Never Sung Me, a bilingual American Sign Language (ASL) and sung English chamber opera written and composed by Dave Clarke and produced by Concrete Theatre at SOUND OFF: A Deaf Theatre…
Video: Collaborating on Togetherness and Futurity in Disability Arts
Stepping back: Reflecting on accessibility in integrated dance improvisation
Finding more accessible ways to train, create, perform and work is a major concern of researchers and practitioners (Ajula & Redding, 2013, 2014) of integrated and disability dance. In the spring of 2017 eight dancer/researchers from CRIPSiE, an integrated, disability and crip dance company located in Edmonton, came together to investigate their practices of timing through a participatory performance creation process. Participatory performance cr…
A Generous Incantation: Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada
Interdependent Magic, curated by Jessica Watkin, is the first anthology of plays by disabled Canadian playwrights from Playwrights Canada Press. It includes pieces by Alex Bulmer, the Boys in Chairs Collective, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Chris Dodd, as well as an interview with Niall McNeil. In this review, Kelsie Acton considers the ways in which the strength of this volume lies not just in the quality and diversity of playwriting featured but also …
Editing for Access: Practices and Reflections
This article describes the approach to editing for access that was developed for the “Dramaturgies of Accessibility” issue of Performance Matters from 2024 to 2025. This approach was designed to be sustainable for independent publishers and strengthen a diverse community of knowledge. Sustainability is achieved by making resource-based choices about the forms of access provided and by distributing access work within a community while enabling eac…
Cognitive Accessibility, Ethics, and Rights in Research
This paper is about doing research with artists with learning disabilities and autism. Artists with learning disabilities or autism need to say yes to doing research. Researchers need to explain what will happen in the research. Often, researchers think that people with learning disabilities and autism can’t say yes to being part of research. This means researchers don’t study things that are important to people with learning disabilities and aut…
Art (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · The arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media (2 works)