Dance and the lived body :
Fraleigh, Sondra Horton 1939-
Dance and the lived body : a descriptive aesthetics / Sondra Horton Fraleigh. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1987. - xli, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 255-273.
Introduction / PART I DANCE AND EMBODIMENT : 1 Dance and the lived body / 2 Dance and Self / 3 Dance Itself / 4 Dance and the Other / PART II A TENSION OF OPPOSITES : 5 Dance Tension / 6 Point Counterpoint / 7 Expressionist-Formalist Tension / 8 Mythic Polarity / PART III SIGN FOR LIFE : 9 Acts of Light / 10 Moving Time-Space / 11 Measure and Relationship / 12 Dance Images / Dance and existentialism: personal notes -- Existential context of modern dance -- Existential themes of modern dance -- Existential phenomenology -- Dance and dualism -- Overcoming dualism -- Spontaneous body -- Self known in its works -- The dancer in the dance -- The dance object: I-It -- Being the dance: I-Thou -- Of our own making -- Irreducible structure of dance -- Classical and existential models -- Inmost dance: Immanent body -- Passing between -- The dance stands out -- Body-for-other -- Poetic body -- Cosmic motion and dance tension -- Phenomenal tensions in dance -- Definition-redefinition -- Countering definition -- The expressive subject: Nagrin and Sokolow -- The formative object: King, Fenley, Streb, Cunningham, Nikolais -- Aesthetic-historic tension -- Moving against expression -- Deconstruction and regeneration -- Cunningham and Koans -- Transformations -- Female-male archetypes -- Genius of the heart -- Body of nature and culture -- Body of earth and heaven -- Dance and metaphysics -- Lived metaphysics -- Daily work -- Our body of time and space -- Poetics of time and space -- Moving once -- Moving as one -- Moving as two -- Moving as a group -- 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).
" ... 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."--Publisher.
0822935481 0822955792 (pbk) 9780822955795 (pbk)
86019288
Dance--Philosophy.
Existentialism.
Phenomenology.
Modern dance--Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
GV1588.3 / .F72 1987
792.801 / FRA
Dance and the lived body : a descriptive aesthetics / Sondra Horton Fraleigh. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1987. - xli, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 255-273.
Introduction / PART I DANCE AND EMBODIMENT : 1 Dance and the lived body / 2 Dance and Self / 3 Dance Itself / 4 Dance and the Other / PART II A TENSION OF OPPOSITES : 5 Dance Tension / 6 Point Counterpoint / 7 Expressionist-Formalist Tension / 8 Mythic Polarity / PART III SIGN FOR LIFE : 9 Acts of Light / 10 Moving Time-Space / 11 Measure and Relationship / 12 Dance Images / Dance and existentialism: personal notes -- Existential context of modern dance -- Existential themes of modern dance -- Existential phenomenology -- Dance and dualism -- Overcoming dualism -- Spontaneous body -- Self known in its works -- The dancer in the dance -- The dance object: I-It -- Being the dance: I-Thou -- Of our own making -- Irreducible structure of dance -- Classical and existential models -- Inmost dance: Immanent body -- Passing between -- The dance stands out -- Body-for-other -- Poetic body -- Cosmic motion and dance tension -- Phenomenal tensions in dance -- Definition-redefinition -- Countering definition -- The expressive subject: Nagrin and Sokolow -- The formative object: King, Fenley, Streb, Cunningham, Nikolais -- Aesthetic-historic tension -- Moving against expression -- Deconstruction and regeneration -- Cunningham and Koans -- Transformations -- Female-male archetypes -- Genius of the heart -- Body of nature and culture -- Body of earth and heaven -- Dance and metaphysics -- Lived metaphysics -- Daily work -- Our body of time and space -- Poetics of time and space -- Moving once -- Moving as one -- Moving as two -- Moving as a group -- 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).
" ... 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."--Publisher.
0822935481 0822955792 (pbk) 9780822955795 (pbk)
86019288
Dance--Philosophy.
Existentialism.
Phenomenology.
Modern dance--Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
GV1588.3 / .F72 1987
792.801 / FRA