Singularities
Subtitle: Dance in the Age of Performance
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781138907706
Subjects: Performance art; Philosophy
Description: André 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, Jérôme 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.