Singularities Dance in the age of performance

by Thomas Dillon

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first 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 thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.

200 pages, Paperback

Published April 5, 2017