Dance and the Lived Body
Title | Dance and the Lived Body PDF eBook |
Author | Sondra Horton Fraleigh |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 1996-05-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0822971704 |
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.
Dance and the Lived Body
Title | Dance and the Lived Body PDF eBook |
Author | Sondra Horton Fraleigh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
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.
Dance and the Lived Body
Title | Dance and the Lived Body PDF eBook |
Author | Sondra Horton Fraleigh |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1996-05-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780822971702 |
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.
Dancing Identity
Title | Dancing Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Sondra Horton Fraleigh |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2004-10-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0822963000 |
Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on memory and on the ways we perceive and construct our lives represent Sondra Fraleigh's journey toward self-definition as informed by art, ritual, feminism, phenomenology, poetry, autobiography, and-always-dance. Fraleigh's brilliantly inventive fusions of philosophy and movement clarify often complex philosophical issues and apply them to dance history and aesthetics. She illustrates her discussions with photographs, dance descriptions, and stories from her own past in order to bridge dance with everyday movement. Seeking to recombine the fractured and bifurcated conceptions of the body and of the senses that dominate much Western discourse, she reveals how metaphysical concepts are embodied and presented in dance, both on stage and in therapeutic settings. Examining the role of movement in personal and political experiences, Fraleigh reflects on her major influences, including Moshe Feldenkrais, Kazuo Ohno, and Twyla Tharp. She draws on such varied sources as philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Martin Heidegger, the German expressionist dancer Mary Wigman, Japanese Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, Hitler, the Bomb, Miss America, Balanchine, and the goddess figure of ancient cultures. Dancing Identity offers new insights into modern life and its reconfigurations in postmodern dance.
Back to the Dance Itself
Title | Back to the Dance Itself PDF eBook |
Author | Sondra Fraleigh |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-10-24 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0252050789 |
In Back to the Dance Itself, Sondra Fraleigh edits essays that illuminate how scholars apply a range of phenomenologies to explore questions of dance and the world; performing life and language; body and place; and self-knowing in performance. Some authors delve into theoretical perspectives, while others relate personal experiences and reflections that reveal fascinating insights arising from practice. Collectively, authors give particular consideration to the interactive lifeworld of making and doing that motivates performance. Their texts and photographs study body and the environing world through points of convergence, as correlates in elemental and constant interchange modeled vividly in dance. Selected essays on eco-phenomenology and feminism extend this view to the importance of connections with, and caring for, all life. Contributors: Karen Barbour, Christine Bellerose, Robert Bingham, Kara Bond, Hillel Braude, Sondra Fraleigh, Kimerer LaMothe, Joanna McNamara, Vida Midgelow, Ami Shulman, and Amanda Williamson.
Bodies Moving and Moved
Title | Bodies Moving and Moved PDF eBook |
Author | Jaana Parviainen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Dance |
ISBN |
Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny
Title | Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny PDF eBook |
Author | Philipa Rothfield |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2020-06-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000079678 |
Dance and the Corporeal Uncanny takes the philosophy of the body into the field of dance, through the lens of subjectivity and via its critique. It draws on dance and performance as its dedicated field of practice to articulate a philosophy of agency and movement. It is organized around two conceptual paradigms - one phenomenological (via Merleau-Ponty), the other an interpretation of Nietzschean philosophy, mediated through the work of Deleuze. The book draws on dance studies, cultural critique, ethnography and postcolonial theory, seeking an interdisciplinary audience in philosophy, dance and cultural studies.