Dance

This volume brings together multidisciplinary essays dedicated to the question of how dance, both in its historical and in its contemporary manifestations, is intricately linked to conceptualisations of the political.

An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.

Monograph / artist book by American choreographer: essays, documents, reflexions, discussions, images...

Monograph / artist book (available in English edition).

Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.

An interview with French dancer and choreographer.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).

The choreographic in cinema.

An analysis of the processes by which certain seemingly innocuous popular forms of modernity are used to serve fascism, through the example of synchronized dancing, which was imbued with the symbolism of Nazi domination.

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.