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.

'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

• 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