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(2017) Jérôme Bel, Dordrecht, Springer.
"Subjects at Risk" finally, deals with dancers and performers taking risks with their own skills, thereby risking the form of the pieces in which they perform. From 2010 onwards, pieces such as 3Abschied, Cour d'honneur, Disabled Theater, and Tombe ask dancers to sing, actors to dance, and spectators to perform, thereby exposing them to the risk of failure. Making dance risky again is argued to be a political strategy under contemporary conditions of dance production and reception. In the process of engaging with the unknown, performers unleash a transformative power that carries them away as subjects. With Christoph Menke this force is considered to be a human force equal to all before learning, capacities, and skills establish individual differences that build identities.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55272-3_6
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Siegmund, G. (2017). Subjects at risk, in Jérôme Bel, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 225-269.
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