Lepecki, André.

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.

0415362539 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415362547 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2005017110


Choreography--Philosophy
Movement (Philosophy)
Movement, Aesthetics of

GV1782.5 / .L47 2005

792.8/2