University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7170-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8229-3548-3 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5579-5 Library of Congress Classification GV1588.3.F72 1987 Dewey Decimal Classification 793.32
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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 been published in texts on dance and movement, philosophy, and cognitive development. She has been a guest teacher of dance and somatic therapy in America, Japan, England, and Norway. She has served as president of the Congress of Research in Dance and is a Faculty Exchange Scholar for the State University of New York. Her innovative choreography has been seen on tour in America, Germany, and Japan, where she has also been a visiting scholar at several universities.
REVIEWS
“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.” --Dance Teacher Now
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Dance and Existentialism: Personal Notes
Existential Context of Modern Dance
Existential Themes in Modern Dance
PART I
DANCE AND EMBODIMENT
1
Dance and the Lived Body
Existential Phenomenology
Dance and Dualism
Overcoming Dualism
Spontaneous Body
2
Dance and Self
Self Known in Its Works
The Dancer Is the Dance
The Dance Object: I-It
Being the Dance: I-Thou
3
Dance Itself
Of Our Own Making
Irreducible Structure of Dance
Classical and Existential Models
Inmost Dance: Immanent Body
4
Dance and the Other
Passing Between
The Dance Stands Out
Body-for-Other
Poetic Body
PART II
A TENSION OF OPPOSITES
5
Dance Tension
Cosmic Motion and Dance Tension
Phenomenal Tensions in Dance
6
Point Counterpoint
Definition-Redefinition
Countering Definition
The Expressive Subject: Nagrin and Sokolow
The Formative Object: King, Fenley, Streb, Cunningham, Nikolais
7
Expressionist-Formalist Tension
Aesthetic-Historic Tension
Moving Against Expression
Deconstruction and Regeneration
Cunningham and Koans
Transformations
8
Mythic Polarity
Female-Male Archetypes
Genius of the Heart
Body of Nature and Culture
Body of Earth and Heaven
PART III
SIGN FOR LIFE
9
Acts of Light
Dance and Metaphysics
Lived Metaphysics
Daily Work
10
Moving Time-Space
Our Body of Time and Space
Poetics of Time and Space
11
Measure and Relationship
Moving Once
Moving as One
Moving as Two
Moving as a Group
12
Dance Images
Of Life: The Dance Image
Humphrey's Passacaglia
Sokolow's Dreams
Falling Everyday Life
Farber's Ledge
The Open Center
Wiener's Wind Devil
Fagan's Oatka Trail
Signature
Notes
Index
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7170-2 Cloth: 978-0-8229-3548-3 Paper: 978-0-8229-5579-5
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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 been published in texts on dance and movement, philosophy, and cognitive development. She has been a guest teacher of dance and somatic therapy in America, Japan, England, and Norway. She has served as president of the Congress of Research in Dance and is a Faculty Exchange Scholar for the State University of New York. Her innovative choreography has been seen on tour in America, Germany, and Japan, where she has also been a visiting scholar at several universities.
REVIEWS
“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.” --Dance Teacher Now
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Dance and Existentialism: Personal Notes
Existential Context of Modern Dance
Existential Themes in Modern Dance
PART I
DANCE AND EMBODIMENT
1
Dance and the Lived Body
Existential Phenomenology
Dance and Dualism
Overcoming Dualism
Spontaneous Body
2
Dance and Self
Self Known in Its Works
The Dancer Is the Dance
The Dance Object: I-It
Being the Dance: I-Thou
3
Dance Itself
Of Our Own Making
Irreducible Structure of Dance
Classical and Existential Models
Inmost Dance: Immanent Body
4
Dance and the Other
Passing Between
The Dance Stands Out
Body-for-Other
Poetic Body
PART II
A TENSION OF OPPOSITES
5
Dance Tension
Cosmic Motion and Dance Tension
Phenomenal Tensions in Dance
6
Point Counterpoint
Definition-Redefinition
Countering Definition
The Expressive Subject: Nagrin and Sokolow
The Formative Object: King, Fenley, Streb, Cunningham, Nikolais
7
Expressionist-Formalist Tension
Aesthetic-Historic Tension
Moving Against Expression
Deconstruction and Regeneration
Cunningham and Koans
Transformations
8
Mythic Polarity
Female-Male Archetypes
Genius of the Heart
Body of Nature and Culture
Body of Earth and Heaven
PART III
SIGN FOR LIFE
9
Acts of Light
Dance and Metaphysics
Lived Metaphysics
Daily Work
10
Moving Time-Space
Our Body of Time and Space
Poetics of Time and Space
11
Measure and Relationship
Moving Once
Moving as One
Moving as Two
Moving as a Group
12
Dance Images
Of Life: The Dance Image
Humphrey's Passacaglia
Sokolow's Dreams
Falling Everyday Life
Farber's Ledge
The Open Center
Wiener's Wind Devil
Fagan's Oatka Trail
Signature
Notes
Index
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