Andre Lepecki

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Dance in the Age of Performance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? Andre Lepecki surveys a decade of visual art and experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty first century - not just as an aesthetic category but also as a mode of political power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317441090
• Artikelnr.: 45260136

Autorenporträt

André Lepecki is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and affiliated Professor at Stockholm University of the Arts, UNIARTS.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Dance and the age of neoliberal performance
Chapter 1: Moving as Some Thing (or, Some things want to run)
Chapter 2: In the Dark
Chapter 3: Limitrophies of the Human: monstrous nature, thingly life, and
the wild animal
Chapter 4: The Body as Archive: will to reenact and the afterlives of
dances
Chapter 5: Choreographic Angelology: the dancer as worker of history (or,
Remembering is a hard thing)
Chapter 6: Afterthought: Four notes on witnessing performance in the age of
neoliberal dis-experience