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Exhausting Dance Exhausting Dance: Performance and the politics ofmovement examines the work ofkeycontemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since theearly 1990s in Europe and the USA. Through their vivid and explicit dialoguewith performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years,this new generation ofchoreographers challenge our understanding ofdance byexhausting the concept ofmovement. Their work demands to be read asperformed extensions ofthe radical politics implied in performance art, in post-structuralist and critical theory, in postcolonial theory, and in critical race studies.In this far-ranging and exceptional study, André Lepecki brilliantly analyzesthe work ofthe choreographers: • Jérôme Bel (France) • Juan Dominguez (Spain) • Trisha Brown (USA) • La Ribot (Spain) • Xavier Le Roy (France-Germany) • Vera Mantero (Portugal)and the visual and performance artists: • Bruce Nauman (USA) and • William Pope.L (USA)This book offers a significant and radical revision ofthe way we think aboutdance, arguing for the necessity ofa renewed engagement between dance studiesand experimental artistic and philosophical practices. André Lepecki is Assistant Professor at the Department ofPerformanceStudies at New York University. He is an essayist and dramaturge. He edited Of the Presence ofthe Body (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) and is coeditor with SallyBanes of The Senses in Performance (Routledge, 2006). Exhausting Dance Performance and the politics ofmovement André Lepecki First published 2006 byRoutledge270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016Simultaneously published in the UKbyRoutledge2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint ofthe Taylor & Francis Group © 2006 André Lepecki All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reprinted or reproducedor utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission inwriting from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record has been requestedISBN 0–415–36253–9ISBN 0–415–36254–7ISBN13: 9–78–0–415–36253–5 (hbk)ISBN13: 9–78–0–415–36254–2 (pbk) This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’scollection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.”
