Dancing with Georges Perec

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-1983) to dance.

Leslie Satin is a member of the Gallatin Arts Faculty at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a choreographer and dancer. Her performance texts and scholarly writing on dance's intersections with other fields have been published in many journals and edited collections.

Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Dancing with Georges Perec: An Introduction Chapter 2. Georges Perec's Radical Fractures: Engaging Autobiography Chapter 3. Looking, Listening, Listing: Attention and the Infra-Ordinary Entracte: The Body Catalogue Chapter 4. Bodies in Space, Bodies as Space Chapter 6. What is Dance? Radical Acts of Embodiment Chapter 7. Dancing into the 21st Century with Georges Perec Index