Exhausting dance : performance and the politics of movement /
André Lepecki.
- x, 150 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the political ontology of movement -- Masculinity, solipsism, choreography : Bruce Nauman, Juan Dominguez, Xavier le Roy -- Choreography's "slower ontology" : Jérôme Bel's critique of representation -- Toppling dance : the making of space in Trisha Brown and La Ribot -- Stumbling dance : William Pope.L's crawls -- The melancholic dance of the post-colonial spectral : Vera Mantero summoning Josephine Baker -- Concluding note : exhausting dance--to be done with the vanishing point.