Ungoverning Dance: Contemporary European Theatre Dance and by Ramsay Burt

By Ramsay Burt

Ungoverning Dance examines the paintings of revolutionary modern dance artists in continental Europe from the mid Nineteen Nineties to 2015. putting this in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, the ebook argues that those artists have constructed an ethico-aesthetic strategy that makes use of dance practices as websites of resistance opposed to dominant ideologies, and that their works attest to the patience of different methods of pondering and dwelling. in keeping with the best way that the unconventional values informing their paintings are regularly below assault from neoliberalism, those artists realize that they in impression proportion universal pool assets. therefore, whereas modern dance has been became a marketplace, they however worth the level to which it capabilities as a commons. paintings that does this, it argues, ungoverns dance.

The booklet bargains shut readings of works from the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s via generations of European-based dance artists: that of Jérôme Bel, Jonathan Burrows, los angeles Ribot, and Xavier Le Roy who started exhibiting paintings within the Nineties; and that of artists who emerged within the 2000s together with Fabián Barba, Faustin Linyekula, Ivana Müller, and Nikolina Pristas. subject matters tested contain dance and precarious existence, choreographing friendship, re-performance, the digital in dance, and a dancer's adventure of the Egyptian revolution. Ungoverning Dance proposes new methods of knowing contemporary modern eu dance works by way of making connections with their social, political, and theoretical contexts.

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