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Subject(s)

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

Summary note

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US. 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. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radic

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-146) and index.

Language note

English

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

• 1-134-23090-7
• 1-280-46364-3
• 9786610463640
• 0-203-01287-9

OCLC

71815901

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