Comments on: The Reading Group: Exchange | Reading Group Post III http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-reading-group-exchange/ Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:33:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: maia http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-reading-group-exchange/#comment-6132 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:25:18 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/the-reading-group-exchange/#comment-6132 In a 2004 article - "Concept & Presence" - Lepecki points out that the politics in this new 'movement' of dance is informed by a critique of visuality and a deep dialogue with performance theory. the performance theory part is quiete clear. Lepecki himself discusses this performances theory in various articles and also in "Exhausting Dance" - but what is this "critique of visuality" - excuse my ignorance - is it merely a critique of the gaze? i.e. the notion of commercial work as easy to look at? or does it go beyond that into something am just not seeing? In a 2004 article - “Concept & Presence” - Lepecki points out that the politics in this new ‘movement’ of dance is informed by a critique of visuality and a deep dialogue with performance theory.

the performance theory part is quiete clear. Lepecki himself discusses this performances theory in various articles and also in “Exhausting Dance” - but what is this “critique of visuality” - excuse my ignorance - is it merely a critique of the gaze? i.e. the notion of commercial work as easy to look at? or does it go beyond that into something am just not seeing?

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