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Flexible Performativity

What Contemporary Dancers Do When They Do What They Do

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2023

Annelies Van Assche  and
Kareth Schaffer
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Abstract

Scholarly work rarely examines the labor of the contemporary dance artist as a performer. Flexible performativity describes the discrete skill set dancers today must be able to deploy in performance. Flexible performativity and its characteristics of negotiating proximity, autodramaturgy, hyperindividualism, and hyperreferentialism mold the dancer prototypical of the movement logics of the early 21st century.

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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 203 - 222
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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