Unworking Choreography
The Notion of the Work in Dance
Frédéric Pouillaude
Table of Contents
Preface to the English edition
Translator's Preface
Introduction and acknowledgements
PART 1: PHILOSOPHY OF DANCE AND THE ABSENTING OF WORKS
Chapter 1: On Transcendental Absenting
Chapter 2: A Time with No Outside (Valéry and Jouissance)
Chapter 3: A Space with No Place (Straus and Ecstasy)
Chapter 4: The Absence of the Work: Presence, Expenditure, Auto-affection
PART 2: THE WORK (1): THE STAGE AND SIGNIFICATION
Chapter 1: Mallarmé: Deciphering the Stage
Chapter 2: Spectacle, Ritual, Divertissement (Genesis and Structure of the
Choreographic Stage, I)
Chapter 3: Presence, Ideality, Signification (Genesis and Structure of the
Choreographic Stage, II)
Chapter 4: Artaud: Presence and Ritual
PART 3: THE WORK (2): IMMANENCE AND IDEALITY
Chapter 1: Writing That Says Nothing
Chapter 2: Identity: Two Regimes
Chapter 3: Oral Identities: Passing Dance on, Making Versions
Chapter 4: The Supporting Trace: Images and Scores
PART 4: A TECHNIQUE WITH NO OBJECT
Chapter 1: What is a Dance Technique?
Chapter 2: Technique or Language: An Analogical Impasse
Chapter 3: Lack of Tools as Loss of Memory
Chapter 4: Intending the Unintentional, Repeating the Unrepeatable
Conclusion (1): Reflect and Repeat
Section 1: Stage and Contemporaneity
Section 2: The Reflexive Labour of Performance
Section 3: The Memorial Labour of the Work
Conclusion (2): Gesture and Trace
Appendix of illustrations
Bibliography and References