This chapter takes a view of disability as embodied knowing. This knowing
formed the basis for a collaborative research process between dancers with
Parkinson’s disease, dance practitioners and university researchers. Drawing
on dialogic communication theory and critical disability studies, we
develop a dialogic and discursive theorization of embodied knowing by
centering on the productive particularities of disabled embodiment in and
about Parkinson’s dance as important forms and sites of knowledge production.
The analysis focuses on data from dance sessions and discussion panels
in a dance and research symposium in which disability is examined and
thematized in terms of productive ways of knowing. By displaying critical
insights into dialogic enactments and articulations of embodied knowing,
the analysis shows how a framing of disability as dialogue enriches our
understanding of particular marginalized forms of embodiment in and
about dance.

Keywords: disability, dialogue, embodied knowing, Parkinson’s dance
research