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Andre Lepecki

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English
MIT Press
10 August 2012
Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Choreography
Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
Dance's galvanizing and transformative presence in art and theory over the last decade becomes part of a broader investigation of its dialogue with modernism's legacies.

This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines the philosophies of movement instrumental to the development of experimental dance. By introducing and discussing the concepts of embodiment and corporeality, choreopolitics, and the notion of dance in an expanded field, Dance establishes the aesthetics and politics of dance as a major impetus in contemporary culture. It offers testimonies and writings by influential visual artists whose work has taken inspiration from dance and choreography. Dance-because of its ephemerality, corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativity-is arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in contemporary culture. Dance's ephemerality suggests the possibility of an escape from the regimes of commodification and fetishization in the arts. Its corporeality can embody critiques of representation inscribed in bodies and subjects. Its precariousness underlines the fragility of contemporary states of being. Scoring links it with conceptual art, as language becomes the articulator for possible as well as impossible modes of action. Finally, because dance always establishes a contract, or promise, between its choreographic planning and its actualization in movement, it reveals an essential performativity in its aesthetic project-a central concern for both art and critical thought in our time. This title is published in collaboration with Sadler's Wells, London.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 211mm,  Width: 151mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   561g
ISBN:   9780262517775
ISBN 10:   0262517779
Series:   Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Andre Lepecki is Associate Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is the author of Exhausting Dance- Performance and Politics of Movement (2006) and a regular contributor to Performance Research, Drama Review, Artforum, Nouvelles de Danse, and other publications in Europe, Brazil, and the Middle East

Reviews for Dance

This variation in approach from humorous and cynical to conceptual and righteous and abstract, strengthens the collection. As he states in the introduction, Lepecki is trying to diminish misperceptions of dance and dance-makers 'as non-verbal artists creating a supposedly 'visceral' art whose sole purpose is to move gracefully, flawlessly, to the sound of music.' His editorial choices help both to ground and to elevate the dialogue. --Publishers Weekly


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