Dance

  • Jean-Luc Nancy and Visual Culture just published, with my chapter on Nancy, dance and equality

    Jean-Luc Nancy and Visual Culture just published, with my chapter on Nancy, dance and equality

    Just published: Nancy and Visual Culture. Here is the abstract for my chapter, entitled “Dancing Equality: Image, Imitation and Participation”. ‘We are facing a very new demand in terms of art’ remarks Nancy in Allitérations, ‘the demand that art be “made by everyone”’. And yet we also know very well that the arts require individuality, singularity

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  • Article on Jean-Luc Nancy and dance now available in Korean

    My article on Jean-Luc Nancy and dance entitled “When I think, I dance”  has been translated into Korean and appears serialised in issues 243 and 244 of Dance Magazine MOMM. Many thanks to Philipa Rothfield and Yewoon at DanceMOMM for their collaboration. A longer title for the article would be “When I think I dance I don’t

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  • Dancehouse Diary: When I think, I dance

    Last January I had the great pleasure of chatting with Philipa Rothfield about dance and philosophy, and she invited me to contribute something on Jean-Luc Nancy and dance to Dancehouse Diary, a quarterly publication by Dancehouse, the centre for independent dance in Melbourne. The piece, called ‘When I think, I dance’, deals with some of the themes in

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