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Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement
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Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Andre Lepecki

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From the publisher

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.

Details

  • Title Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement
  • Author Andre Lepecki
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New York and London
  • Publication date 2005-12-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780415362542 / 0415362547
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.34 x 0.42 in (23.39 x 16.10 x 1.07 cm)
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Movement, Aesthetics of, Movement (Philosophy)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005017110
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.82

About the author

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

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