Exhausting Dance : Performance and the Politics of Movement (Paperback)

1. Introduction: The Political Ontology of Movement  2. Masculinity, Solipsism, Choreography: Bruce Nauman, Juan Dominguez, Xavier Le Roy  3. Choreography’s 'Slower Ontology': Jerome 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