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Subject(s)

• Choreography—Philosophy [Browse]
• Movement (Philosophy) [Browse]
• Movement, Aesthetics of. [Browse]

Summary note

The text examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the USA 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-146) and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• 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
• Conclusion : Exhausting Dance : To Be Done With The Vanishing Point.

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ISBN

• 0203012879 ((electronic bk.))
• 0415362539
• 0415362547
• 9780203012871 ((electronic bk.))
• 9780415362535
• 9780415362542

Tech. report no.

MYILIB_CUp

LCCN

2005017110

OCLC

70887088

International Article Number

• 9780415362535
• 9780415362542

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