Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance

by Andre Lepecki (Author)

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  Paperback
  2016

  $49.40

  How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?

  Andre 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, Jerome 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.