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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Lepecki, Andre. Exhausting Dance. Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd, ©2005 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andre Lepecki |
ISBN: | 9780203012871 0203012879 0415362539 9780415362535 0415362547 9780415362542 |
OCLC Number: | 701868238 |
Description: | 1 online resource (161 pages) |
Contents: | Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction The political ontology ofmovement; 2 Masculinity, solipsism, choreography; 3 Choreography's "slowerontology"Jérôme Bel's critique ofrepresentation; 4 Toppling danceThe making ofspace in Trisha Brownand La Ribot; 5 Stumbling danceWilliam Pope. L's crawls; 6 The melancholic dance ofthepostcolonial spectralVera Mantero summoning JosephineBaker; 7 ConclusionExhausting dance -- to be done with thevanishing point; Notes; References and bibliography; Index. |
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'In this book Andre Lepecki aims to bring dance studies up to speed with an extensive examination of a diverse group of contemporary choreographers who since the early 1990s have explored the mobilising potentialalities of standing still.' - Dance Theatre Journal'Lepecki is at his best when describing the work and engaging with its curious circumstances and contingencies.' - Michal Sapir, writer, academic and musician, London'musings on loss and rage, colonialist pasts, ghostly knockings, and white melancholia offer the reader productive strategies for responding to performances' - Thomas F. DeFrantz, The Dance Review Read more...

