Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance

Performing Temporality in Contemporary European Dance probes rhythm, offbeats, and other patterns to examine how twenty-first-century choreographers perform time. Jonas Rutgeerts calls on the philosophical writings of Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, and Gaston Bachelard to theorize work by choreographers renowned for their productively idiosyncratic approaches to dance: Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion, Ivana Mler, Mette Edvardsen, and M緳ten Sp幩gberg. Rutgeerts analyzes syncopation in the work of Burrows and Fargion, hesitation in Mler's While We Were Holding It Together, repetition in pieces by Edvardsen, and the audience's experience of the present in Sp幩gberg's Natten.