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Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance

By Andre Lepecki

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
1138907707, 9781138907706
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3287768 bytes)
Pages
204\205
Time added
2017-03-15 09:12:01
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Description

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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