Exhausting Dance

André Lepecki is Full Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

• 1. Introduction: The Political Ontology of Movement 2. Masculinity, Solipsism, Choreography: Bruce Nauman, Juan Dominguez, Xavier Le Roy 3. Choreography’s 'Slower Ontology': Jérôme Bel’s Critique of Representation 4. Toppling Dance: The Making of Space in Trisha Brown and La Ribot 5. Stumbling Dance: William Pope L.’s crawls 6. The Melancholic Dance of the Post-Colonial Spectral: Vera Mantero Summoning Josephine Baker 7. Concluding Note: Exhausting Dance - To be Done with the Vanishing Point References Index

'In this book Andre Lepecki aims to bring dance studies up to speed with an extensive examination of a diverse group of contemporary choreographers who since the early 1990s have explored the mobilising potentialalities of standing still.' - Dance Theatre Journal'Lepecki is at his best when describing the work and engaging with its curious circumstances and contingencies.' - Michal Sapir, writer, academic and musician, London'musings on loss and rage, colonialist pasts, ghostly knockings, and white melancholia offer the reader productive strategies for responding to performances' - Thomas F. DeFrantz, The Dance Review