Single Authored Books:
Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement. London and New York
Routledge, 2006.
Edited Books:
The Senses in Performance. Co-edited with Sally Banes. London and New York
(Forthcoming 2006).
Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory. Middletown :
Wesleyan University
Intensification: Contemporary Portuguese Performance (Theaterschrift, EXTRA). Lisbon
Cotovia, 1998.
Chapters in Books:
“The body in the expanded field: perception, collective and image in Heine Avdal and
Deepblue.” Gestiske Koblinger - Om kroppsforståelse i norsk samtidsdans og kultur, Ed.
Camilla Eeg. Oslo
“Provocations to Performance.” Bodies-Cities-Subjects. Ed. Gabriele Klein. Wien:
Passagen Verlag, 2005.
“Exhausting Dance: some thoughts on the choreo-political.” Live: Art and Performance. Ed.
Adrian Heathfield and Hugo Glendinning,. London and New York
“Une Graphologie Infinie,” “Sous ses Pieds, la Toile…” and “Visage dans le Champ de la
Luminosité.” Acte I.
Weiss. Paris
“Toppling: Panoramix and the weight of vision,” La Ribot. Ed. Centre National de la Danse.
Paris
“Five Thoughts on the Choreo-political Neo-colonial.” The Third Body. Ed. Johannes Odenthal.
Berlin
“Inscribing Dance.” Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory.
Ed. André Lepecki. Middletown : Wesleyan University
"Introduction: Presence and Body in Dance and Performance Theory." In Of the Presence of the
Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory, Ed. André Lepecki. Middeltown ,
CT : Wesleyan University
“untitled.” Capitals. Ed. Maria de Assis and Mårten Spångberg. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, 2004.
“Concept and Presence. The contemporary European dance scene.” The New Dance Studies
Reader. Ed. Alexandra Carte. London
“The Melancholic Influence of the Post-colonial Spectral: Vera Mantero summoning Josephine
Baker.” Blackening Europe . Ed. Heike Raphael. London
“Stepping into blindness: Queer corporeality and the national body in Francisco Camacho's
dance.” Lusosex : gender and sexuality in the Portuguese-speaking world. Ed. Susan
Canty Quinlan and Fernando Arenas. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota
“Undoing the Fantasy of the (Dancing) subject: ‘still acts’ in Jérôme Bel’s ‘The Last
Performance’.” The Salt of the Earth: On Dance, Politics, and Reality (Het Zout der
Aarde: Over Dans, Politiek en Werkelijkheid). Ed. Steven de Belder. Brussels
Theater Institute, 2001.
“For a Sensorial Manifesto (On dances that failed).” Danse: langage propre et métissage
culturel, Actes du 9e Festival international de nouvelle danse. Ed. Chantal Pontbriand.
Montreal
“Still. (on the vibratile microscopy of dance).” ReMembering the Body. [on the occasion of the
exhibition "STRESS" at the MAK, Vienna
Völckers [with STRESS, an image-essay by Bruce Mau with texts by André Lepecki]. English
ed. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000.
"Margins of the Present: A Dialogical Exploration of the Work of Vera Mantero and Francisco Camacho."
Movimentos Presentes. Ed. Maria José Fazenda. Lisbon
"Nomadic Desire: The Surreal Dance of Clara Andermatt." Movimentos Presentes.
Ed. Maria José Fazenda. Lisbon
Articles in Journals (peer reviewed):
“Walid Ra’ad’s Fictional Documentaries.” The Drama Review (forthcoming 2006).
“Desfazendo a Fantasia do Sujeito (dançante): ‘Still Acts’ em The Last Performance de Jérôme Bel.”
LIções de Dança, vol. 5, (2005):11-26.
“Skin, Body and Presence in Contemporary European Choreography” Ideas Arts + Society,
Romania
“Stumble Dance.” Women and Performance, vol. 14, n. 27, (Fall 2004): 47-61.
With Diana Theodores, Myriam van Imschoot, Scott deLahunta, Ric Allsopp, and
Isabelle Ginot. "A Conversation on Stillness." Contact Quarterly, vol. 29 no. 2
(Summer/Fall 2004): 21-25.
With Cindy Brizzell. "Introduction: The Labor of the Question is the (Feminist)
Question of Dramaturgy." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol.13,
no.26 (2003): 15-16.
"Limitless." Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol.13, no.26 (2003): 17-
28.
With Diana Theodores, Myriam van Imschoot, Scott deLahunta, Susan Rethorst,
Isabelle Ginot and David WIlliam. “Conversations on Choreography.” Performance
Research, vol.8, no.4, (December 2003):61-70.
“Historical Dust and the Ground of Violence: colonial Memory in a Dance by Vera Mantero.”
Performance Research, vol.8, no. 2, (June 2003): 46-54.
“Le miroir éclaté / A Dança do Existir / Altérité coloniale et violence de l'identité dans un solo
de Vera Mantero.” Protée vol. 29, n. 2 (2002): 67-75.
"Skin, Body, and Presence in Contemporary European Choreography." TDR 43, no. 4 (Winter
1999): 129-140. [WINNER - STUDENT ESSAY AWARD]
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa, (1999): 193-202.
“Par le Biais de la Présence: la composition dans l’avant-garde post-bauschienne.” Nouvelles
de Danse, no. 36/37 (Automne - Hiver 1998): 183-93.
“Rien, Pas Même le Corps…” Nouvelles de Danse, no.34/35, (Printemps - Ête 1998): 114-22.
“Passos na Cegueira: a imagem do corpo nacional de Portugal
corporealidade na dança de Francisco Camacho.” Proceedings of the International
Seminar Problemas Estruturais e Similaridades Conceituais na Dança de Brasil e
Portugal. Prefeitura de São Paulo, Secretaria Municipal de Cultura, (1998): 91-106.
“As if Dance Were Visible.” Performance Research. Vol. 1, no.3 (1997): 71-76.
"Writing in Action," Etcetera, Vlams Theater Institut, (Feb. 1996).
“Embracing the Stain: Notes on the Time of the Dance” Performance Research, vol.1, no.1.
(1996): 19-24.
"Rethinking Words: a field trip to dance criticism." Contact Quarterly. -- Northampton , Mass.
vol. 19, no.2 (summer/fall 1994): 23-31.
"Quando os Mundos se Confundem: A Obra de Pina Bausch," Antropologia Portuguesa, vol.11,
Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Coimbra: (1993): 91-98.
"Simbolização: Metamorfoses do Corpo e do Sentido", Ethnologia, 5, (II), (July 1991): 45-57.
Articles in Magazines:
“Corpo Colonizado,” Revista Gesto, Centro Coreográfico Rio de Janeiro, Prefeitura Municipal (2003).
"Dance Without Distance." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (2001).
"Menial Tasks." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (2001).
“The Body in Difference.” FAMA. (body / difference), vol.1, n.1, (2000).
With Scott deLahunta. "Dance Dramaturgy: Speculations and Reflections." Dance Theater
Journal (2000).
"Caught in a Time Trap." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1999).
"The Dancing Book: A Portrait of the Portuguese Choreographer Vera Mantero." Ballett
International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1999).
"Dance of Differences." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1998).
"Portugal
"Portuguese Reincarnation: One Decade, Four Choreographers." Ballett International/Tanz
Aktuell (English Ed.) (1998).
"O Corte do Olhar." Belém, vol.i, n.1. p. 73-86. (Spring 1997).
"Female Trouble." Art Forum International, vol. xxxvi, n. 6, February, p. 34-35 (1997)
"Focus on Trisha Brown." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1997).
"Vera Mantero: The Fall of an Ego." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (1997).
"How Modern Is Modernism?" Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1996).
"Postcolonialism, Interculturalism." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1996).
"Why Theater?" Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1996).
"How (Not) to Perform the Political." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1995).
"How Radical Is Contemporary Dance?" Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell (English Ed.) (1995).
"If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to Be Part of Your Revolution." Ballett International/Tanz Aktuell
(English Ed.) (1995).
"Breaking the Rules of Presence: Thoughts on the New York
(English Ed.) (1994).
"Six Fragments en Quête de Sens: Ou Comment Danser Dans Un Monde Disloqué?",
Mouvement, n. 4, (Octobre / Novembre 1993).
Book Reviews:
“Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture.” (Book Reviews).” Theatre Survey, vol. 45,
issue 1, (May 2004), 137-9.
"'Geography: Art, Race, Exile' and 'My Body, the Buddhist' (Book Reviews)." TDR 46, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 165-170.
“Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics (Book Reviews).” Performance Research, vol.1, no.2 (1996): 106-108.
Prefaces:
“Prefácio.” In Pais, Ana. O Discurso da Cumplicidade. Lisboa: Edições Colibri: 2004.
Translations:
“A Ontologia da Performance: representação sem reprodução” Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Portugal
Performance” by Peggy Phelan).
Other writing:
2003 - Three short essays commissioned by Forced Entertainment to be included in their long
durational performance, Performance Lexicon Marathon (2003).
1998-2000 - Co-founds with philosopher José Gil, cultural critic António Guerreiro, and
choreographer Vera Mantero the magazine Elipse. Lisbon
Português do Livro. Publishes several short critical essays on Portuguese culture.
1990-95 - Contributor to the literary and cultural supplements of the Portuguese daily Público,
writing on cultural studies, anthropology and performance.
1990-92 - Science contributor to the Portuguese daily Diário de Notícias, with a regular weekly column
for its science supplement.Texts for several programs and catalogues of European dance festivals and
venues, including Klapstuk Festival (1991 Belgium ); La Ferme du Buisson (1992 France ), Tanzfestival
Munchen 95 (Germany ); ACARTE (1996 Portugal ); Association Pour La Danse Contemporaine
(Switzerland 1999), DOCUMENTA X (1997 Germany
