Introduction 4 Only Concepts? Dance and the conceptual 5 Only live? Dance and the ephemeral 8 Shaping time from within: rhythm and dance 10 Going against the flow: rhythm in contemporary dance 12 Dance-philosophy: an infinite conversation. 17 Articulation of the chapters 19 2. Rhythm is life: rhythm in German Ausdruckstanz. 23 The ''doctrine of energy'' and the rise of fatigue. 24 The birth of Körperkultur: Dalcroze''s Eurhythmics. 28 Rhythm in the beginning of the twentieth century: Rudolf Bode and Rudolf Laban. 29 Intermezzo: The evolution of the concept rhythm in Bergson''s oeuvre. 36 Ausdruckstanz and Körperkultur: Mary Wigman''s ecstatic rhythms.
38 Intermezzo: German Ausdruckstanz and the body politics during the Nazi era. 43 Conclusion: Becoming rhythm, becoming life. 44 3. Dancing in the meantime: syncopation in the work of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion. 47 On the fence: rhythm and milieu in Deleuze and Guattari''s Of the Refrain. 51 Playing apart: rhythm and syncopation. 56 Intermezzo: Transatlantic and the resistance of roots. 61 Following the rhythm: the relation between rhythms and patterns.
64 Conclusion: Syncopation''s trouble. 66 4. Still dance: hesitation in Ivana Müller''s While We Were Holding It Together 69 Intermezzo: dance and movement, a modernist love affair 72 Still-act: the tableau vivant 73 Time as hesitation: Bergson and the suspension of time. 75 Intermezzo: the still, or the cinematographic experience of modern times. 79 The space of elsewhere: Bachelard''s poetic imagination. 82 Intermezzo: imagination, intuition and the task of the artist 87 Conclusion: What about tomorrow. 90 5. Stumbling through time: repetition in the work of Mette Edvardsen.
93 The logic of the phrase: repetition in Accumulation and Dance. 98 Stumbling through language: repetition in Black and No title. 103 Running Out of Time: Performing the Eternal Return. 107 Intermezzo: The triple murder of the eternal return, or Deleuze thinks death. 112 Conclusion: The amnesiac witness. 113 6. Dark Utopia, Or Sleeping Through Marten Spångberg''s Natten. 116 Dancing with myself 118 Spending the Natten together.
120 Conclusion: Sushi or sashimi 123 7. Stealing time: Rhythmic operations in a society of control 125 Bibliography. 152.