André Lepecki (born July 15, 1965) is a writer and curator working mainly on performance studies, choreography and dramaturgy. He is a Professor and the chair of the Department of

Performance Studies Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term ''performance'' is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, ...

Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. He has published widely and edited several anthologies. He has also curated numerous festivals and exhibitions including the award-winning re-staging of

Allan Kaprow Allan Kaprow (August 23, 1927 – April 5, 2006) was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as ...

’s ''18 Happenings in 6 Parts''. In 2010 he co-curated the Archive on Dance and Visual Arts since the 1960s for the exhibition
Move: Choreographing You
' at the

Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Roy ...

, London. He is the author of the books ''Exhausting Dance'' (2006) and Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (2016) and the editor of ''Dance'' (2013), ''Planes of Composition'' (with Jenn Joy, 2009), ''The Senses in Performance'' (with Sally Banes, 2007), and ''Of the Presence of the Body'' (2004).

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