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

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