Of the Presence of the Body
Essays on dance and Performance Theory
André Lepecki, ed.

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• GENEALOGIES OF PRESENCE
• Trisha Brown’s Orfeo: Two Takes on Double Endings – Peggy Phelan
• Genealogy and Dance History: Foucault, Rainer, Bausch, and de Deersmaeker – Ramsay Burt

DANCING OTHERING
• Dance and Its Others: Theory, State, Nation, and Socialism – Randy Martin
• The Black Beat Made Visible: Hip Hop Dance and Body Power – Thomas F. DeFrantz
• Danced Spirituals – Susan Manning
• Breast Milk Is Sweet and Salty (A Choreography of Healing) – Barbara Browning

ONTOLOGY’S EVENTS
• Given Movement: Dance and the Event – Mark Franko
• Inscribing Dance – André Lepecki
• Embodying Transgression – Karmen Mackendrick




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