Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement

Andre Lepecki

ISBN 10: 0415362547 / ISBN 13: 9780415362542

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2005

About this Item

2006. 1st Edition. Paperback. Analyzing works by choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s, this book studies European contemporary dance. It offers a revision of the way we think about dance, arguing for the necessity of a renewed engagement between dance studies and experimental artistic and philosophical practices. Num Pages: 160 pages, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: AF; ASD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 266. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415362547
• ISBN 13: 9780415362542
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.

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. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radical politics implied in performance art, in post-structuralist and critical theory, in post-colonial theory, and in critical race studies.

In this far-ranging and exceptional study, Andre Lepecki brilliantly analyzes the work of the choreographers:

* Jerome Bel (France)
* Juan Dominguez (Spain)
* Trisha Brown (US)
* La Ribot (Spain)
* Xavier Le Roy (France-Germany)
* Vera Mantero (Portugal)

and visual and performance artists:

* Bruce Nauman (US)
* William Pope.L (US).

This book offers a significant and radical revision of the way we think about dance, arguing for the necessity of a renewed engagement between dance studies and experimental artistic and philosophical practices.

About the Author

André Lepecki is Full Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.