About André Lepecki
New York, New York
André Lepecki (CBA ’24) is a Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University and Associate Dean of the Center for Research and Study at Tisch School of the Arts. Editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory including Of the Presence of the Body (2004), Dance (2012), and Points of Convergence (with Marta Dziewanska, 2015). An independent performance curator, he has created projects for HKW-Berlin, MoMA-Warsaw, MoMA PS1, the Hayward Gallery, Haus der Künst-Munich, Sydney Biennial 2016, among others. Selected lectures include the Gauss Seminar at Princeton University, Brown University, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – Paris, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Freie Universität – Berlin, Universidade de Lisboa, Roehampton University, University of New South Wales, University of Ghent, among many others. Author of Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (2006, published in thirteen languages), and of Singularities: dance in the age of performance (2016). AICA-US award “Best Performance” 2008 for co-curating and directing the authorized redoing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (a commission of Haus der Kunst 2006, performed at PERFORMA 07).
The non-time of movement: choreopolitics, neoliberalism, neofascism
Lepecki will look at the ways “movement” and “time” are fundamental political substances in the current neoliberal, neofascist moment. It will address recent works by several Brazilian choreographers and dancers in order to interrogate, with these artists’ practices, some fundamental premises that undo the coordinates of temporality to unleash the choreopolitical potential of motion.
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