Olive McKeon
Dance and its Negation: On Konzept Tanz and its Discontents
November 29
12pm, Kaufman Room 160
In this lecture-performance, I discuss the major figures within the emergence of conceptual dance from the mid-90s to present, the distinguishing characteristics of this genre, its relation to conceptualism in the visual arts, the distinction between dancey-dance and conceptual dance, the split it generates between dance and choreography, and more ambitiously, the negation of dance, the destructive seed or utopian kernel that will be the undoing of the form. Particular attention will be paid to understanding male privilege within dance and shifts in artistic labor within capitalism. As with all proper lecture-performances, this will be part-autobiography, part-farce, part-dry-dead-panned-theory.
Olive Mckeon is a communist, but perhaps the kind of communist you have not met yet. She is also a peach, a loose wolf, a lost bird, and a woman. Her favorite choreographer is Matija Ferlin.
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