André Lepecki

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1965.

André Lepecki is an essayist and independent curator based in New York City. He is a full professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University (NYU) and the Associate Dean of the Center for Research and Study at Tisch School of the Arts. With a Ph.D. from NYU, he is the editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory. He has curated festivals and created projects for the HKW-Berlin, the MoMA-Warsaw, the MoMA PS1, the Hayward Gallery, the Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Biennale of Sydney (2016), among other institutions. He was a visiting professor at the School of Communication Studies of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (ECO/UFRJ) and at Stockholm University of the Arts. He is the author of Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement (2006, published in thirteen languages) and of Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (2016). In the 1980s and 1990s, Lepecki was a dramaturge for choreographers Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Francisco Camacho and Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. In 2008, he received the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (United States section) award for “Best Performance” for directing and co-curating the authorized redoing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (a 2006 commission by the Haus der Kunst in Munich, performed at PERFORMA 07). Since 2003, he has been collaborating with the performance artist Eleonora Fabião in several of her “actions”.

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