André Lepecki

Biography

André Lepecki is Associate Professor in Performance Studies at New York University. Editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory including "Of the Presence of the Body" (2004) and "Dance" (2012). An independent performance curator, he has created projects for Haus Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), MoMA-Warsaw, the Hayward Gallery, Haus der Kunst (Munich), Sydney Biennial 2016, among others. Author of "Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement“ (2006, translated into German as "Option Tanz"), and of "Singularities: dance in the age of performance" (2016).