Dancing with Georges Perec

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-1983) to dance.

Autorentext

Leslie Satin is a member of the Gallatin Arts Faculty at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a choreographer and dancer. Her performance texts and scholarly writing on dance's intersections with other fields have been published in many journals and edited collections.

Inhalt

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Dancing with Georges Perec: An Introduction

Chapter 2. Georges Perec's Radical Fractures: Engaging Autobiography

Chapter 3. Looking, Listening, Listing: Attention and the Infra-Ordinary

Entracte: The Body Catalogue

Chapter 4. Bodies in Space, Bodies as Space

Chapter 6. What is Dance? Radical Acts of Embodiment

Chapter 7. Dancing into the 21st Century with Georges Perec

Index