Rosi Braidotti

Bojana Cvejic

John Akomfrah

Bas Lafleur

Vasyl Cherepanyn

Courageous Citizens

Choreographing Problems: Expressive Concepts in European Contemporary Dance and Performance illuminates the relationship between the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and experimental dance and performance in the works of leading European choreographers, Xavier Le Roy, Jonathan Burrows, Boris Charmatz, Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Jefta van Dinther, and Jan Ritsema. Combining intricate analysis of seven groundbreaking works, including Self Unfinished by Le Roy (1998) and Weak Dance Strong Questions (2001) by Burrows and Ritsema, with a philosophical discussion of the body, movement and time in performance, as well as the notions of theatricality, affect, improvisation and process, the capacity of choreography to 'express' thought is unravelled. Choreographing problems involves composing ruptures between movement, the body and duration in performance such that they engender a shock upon sensibility, one that inhibits recognition. This book offers a practical insight into the matters of choreography: it allows both the versed and the non-trained spectator to observe in detail how the thought and the practices of making, performing and attending reinvent performance and dance today.

Expressive Concepts in Contemporary Dance and Performance

Choreographing Problems

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Overzicht van het werk van de Vlaamse choreografe (1960-).

Fase, Rosas Danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartók

A Choreographer's Score

This book illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers. A discussion of key issues in contemporary performance from the viewpoint of Deleuze, Spinoza and Bergson is accompanied by intricate analyses of seven groundbreaking dance performances.

Rudi Laermans

Bojana Bauer

Three Essays on Keeping Still, The Song and 3Abschied by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ann Veronica Janssens, Michel François and Jérôme Bel

Hear My Voice

Bojana Cvejic

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