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Zusatztext Singularities is a sparkling work of dance theory that reads like an urgent and prescient call to action.Sima Belmar - The Drama Review Informationen zum Autor André Lepecki is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and affiliated Professor at Stockholm University of the Arts, UNIARTS. Klappentext How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? Andre Lepecki surveys a decade of visual art and experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty first century - not just as an aesthetic category but also as a mode of political power. Zusammenfassung How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? Andre Lepecki surveys a decade of visual art and experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty first century – not just as an aesthetic category but also as a mode of political power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Dance and the age of neoliberal performance Chapter 1: Moving as Some Thing (or, Some things want to run) Chapter 2: In the Dark Chapter 3: Limitrophies of the Human: monstrous nature, thingly life, and the wild animal Chapter 4: The Body as Archive: will to reenact and the afterlives of dances Chapter 5: Choreographic Angelology: the dancer as worker of history (or, Remembering is a hard thing) Chapter 6: Afterthought: Four notes on witnessing performance in the age of neoliberal dis-experience
