André Lepecki (1965) is a curator, dramaturg, writer, and co-creator based in New York city.  Currently he is Associate Professor in Performance Studies at New York University where he teaches courses on critical theory, continental philosophy, performance studies, dance studies, and experimental dramaturgy. André Lepecki graduated in cultural anthropology at the New University of Lisbon and obtained his Masters and Doctoral degrees in Performance Studies at New York University. In the 1980s he was dramaturg for choreographers Vera Mantero and João Fiadeiro. In the 1990s he was dramaturg for Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods. He co-directed with Bruce Mau the video-installation STRESS (MAK, Wien, 2000), and co-directed with Rachael Swain the video-installation proXy (Performance Space, Sydney, 2003). With Eleonora Fabião he co-created the performance series Wording (2004-6). He is currently curating and directing a remaking of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Acts, for Haus der Kunst, Munich. He has curated events for Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and Tanz in August (Berlin). He has lectured at Leuven University, Brown University, Tate Modern, TanzQuartier, World Cultural Forum, among other venues in Europe, the US, Australia, and Brazil. André Lepecki received grants from the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Luso-American Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Research Center, Italy. He contributes regularly for several art publications in the US, Brazil, and Europe, including The Drama Review, Art Forum, Performance Research, Contact Quarterly, Theaterschrift, Nouvelles de Danse, among others. He is member of the editorial boards of Dance Theatre Journal, e-mispherica, and Performance Research. He is editor of the anthologies Of the Presence of the Body (Wesleyan University Press, 2004) and The Senses in Performance (with Sally Banes -- Routledge, 2006). He is the author of Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (Routledge 2006). His current research focuses on the relationships between dance, philosophy and sculpture.