Hope Races Towards Repetition: "Fondly Do We Hope ... Fervently Do We Pray"

This paper looks at the notion of "repetition/performance" as discussed by feminist and dance studies scholars Judith Butler, Susan Foster, Carrie Noland, and Heidi Gilpin. Specifically it takes these various conceptions of repetition/performance and examines them in the context of "Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray" (2009) as created and performed by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Weaving personal narrative as well as textual analysis, this paper uses the choreographic tool of repetition as a methodological framework to explore conceptions and uses of "repetition/performance" on and off stage