Exhausting dance : performance and the politics of movement / André Lepecki.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.Description: x, 150 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415362539 (hbk.)
  • 0415362547 (pbk.)
  • 9780415362535 (hbk.)
  • 9780415362542 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 792.82 LEP
LOC classification:
  • GV1782.5 .L47 2006
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Contents:
1. Introduction : the political ontology of movement -- 2. Masculinity, solipsism, choreography : Bruce Nauman, Juan Dominguez, Xavier Le Roy -- 3. Choreography's "slower ontology" : Jérôme Bel's critique of representation -- 4. Toppling dance : the making of space in Trisha Brown and La Ribot -- 5. Stumbling dance : William Pope. L's crawls -- 6. The melancholic dance of the post-colonial spectral : Vera Mantero summoning Josephine Baker -- 7. Conclusion : exhausting dance : to be done with the vanishing point.
Summary: "The text examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the USA through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement." -- WorldCat
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-146) and index.

1. Introduction : the political ontology of movement -- 2. Masculinity, solipsism, choreography : Bruce Nauman, Juan Dominguez, Xavier Le Roy -- 3. Choreography's "slower ontology" : Jérôme Bel's critique of representation -- 4. Toppling dance : the making of space in Trisha Brown and La Ribot -- 5. Stumbling dance : William Pope. L's crawls -- 6. The melancholic dance of the post-colonial spectral : Vera Mantero summoning Josephine Baker -- 7. Conclusion : exhausting dance : to be done with the vanishing point.

"The text examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the USA through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement." -- WorldCat

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