Dance And Lived Body
Published on 13. June 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-8229-5579-5 (ISBN)
Description
In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Weiner, and Garth Fagan.
Reviews / Votes
Sondra Fraleigh presents us with an in-depth description of modern dance as it relates to existential phenomenology, the dancer, choreographer, and the perceptive audience. * <i>Dance Teacher Now</i> * This is not a surface account, but a carefully crafted record from an American dance academic which draws on her twelve years' engagement with Butoh. * <i>Dance Now</i> * This is an extraordinary work, and one which reinforces my belief that the essential elements and processes of dance/movement therapy can be revealed and illuminated most forcefully by a continual examination of dance from various perspectives. * <i>American Journal of Dance Therapy</i> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pittsburgh PA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8229-5579-5 (9780822955795)
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Person
Sondra Horton Fraleigh chairs the Department of Dance at the State University of New York, Brockport. She is the author of Dance and the Lived Body and co-editor (with Penelope Hanstein) of Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry. Her articles have