Singularities : dance in the age of performance / André Lepecki.
André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, exami...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: dance and the age of neoliberal performance
- Moving as some thing (or, some things want to run)
- In the dark
- Limitrophies of the human: monstrous nature, thingly life, and the wild animal
- The body as archive: will to reenact and the afterlives of dances
- Choreographic angelology: the dancer as worker of history (or, remembering is a hard thing)
- Afterthought: four notes on witnessing performance in the age of neoliberal dis-experience.