Professor André Lepecki Delivers a Talk at EMPAC

This past Thursday, Professor André Lepecki gave a talk at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The talk titled, The Dispute Over Movement and The Non-Time Of The Struggle. (Notes For a Performance “On The Way”), focused on what he calls choreopolitics. This term signifies dance and choreographic practices that enable freedom in the social realm. Choreopolitics resists the policing of movement. Its politics is much more than policy in a formal sense. It resists enforced forms of physical circulation, and it extends dancers’ capacity to move against choreography’s disciplinary rules. Lepecki considers how time may be a technology for policing movement, and looks at performances and works that challenge it.