How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our
advanced neo-capitalist age? André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental …

The choreographic element in Jacques Rancière's notion of “police” is used to advance the
concept of “choreopolice,” which can then be set in opposition to “choreopolitics” to redefine …

Dance Practice and Age and Dancing: Older People and Community Dance are set books
on undergraduate community dance programmes in the UK and abroad. Her career has …

Dance has been a discipline in higher education in the UK for nearly 35 years; the first
programme was introduced at the Laban Centre in 1975. The breadth of features that have …

This article compares Rudolf von Laban's and Mary Wigman's practices and theories of
gestural flow with Walter Benjamin's theory of gesture as interruption. For Laban and …

If there is a distinguishing trait of recent experimental dance, it is the noticeable presence of
objects as main performative elements. Examples can be found in numerous works of the …

In 2012, Susan Manning, Rebecca Schneider, and Janice Ross collaborated across their
home institutions of Northwestern University, Brown University, and Stanford University …

Dance occupies a prestigious place in Indian performing arts, yet it curiously, to a large
extent, has remained outside the arena of academic discourse. This book documents and …

Dance and death combined in post-WWI Germany to complicate the material authority they
were seen to share. Using nascent modern dance techniques to exploit the expressive …

In 1975, German choreographer Kurt Jooss created his last dance, Dixit Dominus, for
Swedish-based Indian dancer Lilavati Häger. After Rani Nair reconstructed what is often …