Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance

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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

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How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?

Andre 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, Jerome 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.

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