DANCE

Dance because of its ephemerality, corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativity is arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in contemporary culture. Dances ephemerality suggests the possibility of an escape from the regimes of commodification and fetishization in the arts. Its corporeality can embody critiques of representation inscribed in b odies and subjects. This collection surveys the choreographic turn in the artistic imagination from the 1950s onwards, and in doing so outlines th...[Read more]