Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance
How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? 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, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity. Exploring the works of Mette Ingvartsen, Yvonne Rainer, Ralph Lemon, Jérôme Bel and others, Lepecki uses his concept of ‘singularity’-the resistance of categorization and aesthetic identification-to examine the function of dance and performance in political and artistic debate.
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Walter Carter, Aitana Cordero, João Fiadeiro, Martha Graham, Ron Athey, Marcela Levi, Trajal Harrell, Mette Ingvartsen, Eiko & Koma, Antonia Baehr, Yvonne Rainer, Martin Nachbar, Jérôme Bel, Maria José Arjona, Xavier Le Roy, Julie Tolentino, Ralph Lemon, Marcelo Evelin
Abingdon
2016
194 pages
9781317441106
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