How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age?André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, a...

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by...

Janelas Abertas reúne grandes nomes das artes e da cultura contemporâneas em conversas que têm a arte, a política e a vida como ponto de partida. Organizado por Eleonora Fabião e Adriana Schneider, professoras da Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), o livro é um desdobramento de uma série de encontros semanais que reunia, virtualmente, uma audiência em torno de duplas de intelectuais e artistas, abrindo as janelas encerradas pelo isolamento provocado pela...

This ground-breaking anthology is the first to be dedicated to assessing critically the role of the human sensorium in performance.Senses in Performance presents a multifaceted approach to the methodological, theoretical, practical and historical challenges facing the scholar and the artist. This volume examines the subtle actions of the human senses including taste, touch, smell and vision in all sorts of performances in Western and non-Western traditions, from ritual to ...

**A Brazilian masterpiece, now in English for the first time: a playfully profound chronicle of an urban sophisticate’s misadventures in the AmazonA Penguin Classic**“My life’s done a somersault,” wrote Mário de Andrade in a letter, on the verge of taking a leap. After years of dreaming about Amazonia, and almost fifty years before Bruce Chatwin ventured into one of the most remote regions of South America in In Patagonia, Andrade, the queer mixed-race “pope” of Br...