(Pag-download) [PDF] Dance (Documents of Contemporary
Art)
By Andr? Lepecki
Dance's galvanizing and transformative presence in art and theory over the last
decade becomes part of a broader investigation of its dialogue with modernism's
legacies.This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic
imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines the philosophies
of movement instrumental to the development of experimental dance. By
introducing and discussing the concepts of embodiment and corporeality,
choreopolitics, and the notion of dance in an expanded field, Dance establishes
the aesthetics and politics of dance as a major impetus in contemporary culture.
It offers testimonies and writings by influential visual artists whose work has
taken inspiration from dance and choreography.Dance--because of its
ephemerality, corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativity--is
arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in
contemporary culture. Dance's ephemerality suggests the possibility of an
escape
