Can There Be Conceptual Dance?

Projects, Precarity, and the Ontology of Dance Works

“…The association of dance as art, and the appropriateness of the concept of the work to dance, has been challenged by some recent literature (Cvejić 2015), and some practitioners prefer to adopt terms such as “performances,” “productions,” or “dances” (Blades 2016; Pakes 2015). However, in my interviews, the work-concept remained strong, functioning for many as an ideal form, on which they focus their ambitions, or which they critically interrogate through practice.…”