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100 1 $aFraleigh, Sondra Horton,$d1939-
245 10 $aDance and the lived body :$ba descriptive aesthetics /$cSondra Horton Fraleigh.
260 0 $aPittsburgh, Pa. :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$cc1987.
300 $axli, 284 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. 255-273.
505 0 $aPreface -- Introduction. Dance and existentialism : personal notes ; Existential context of modern dance ; Existential themes of modern dance -- Part 1. Dance and Embodiment. Dance and the lived body. Existential phenomenology ; Dance and dualism ; Overcoming dualism ; Spontaneous body -- Dance and self. Self known in its works ; The dancer in the dance ; The dance object: I-It ; Being the dance: I-Thou -- Dance itself. Of our own making ; Irreducible structure of dance ; Classical and existential models ; Inmost dance : immanent body -- Dance and the other. Passing between ; The dance stands out ; Body-for-other ; Poetic body -- Part 2. A Tension of Opposites. Dance tension. Cosmic motion and dance tension ; Phenomenal tensions in dance -- Point counterpoint. Definition-redefinition ; Countering definition ; The expressive subject : Nagrin and Sokolow ; The formative object : King, Fenley, Streb, Cunningham, Nikolais -- Expressionist-formalist tension. Aesthetic-historic tension ; Moving against expression ; Deconstruction and regeneration ; Cunningham and koans ; Transformations -- Mythic polarity. Female-male archetypes ; Genius of the heart ; Body of nature and culture ; Body of earth and heaven -- Part 3. Sign for Life. Acts of light. Dance and metaphysics ; Lived metaphysics ; Daily work -- Moving time-space. Our body of time and space ; Poetics of time and space -- Measure and relationship. Moving once ; Moving as one ; Moving as two ; Moving as a group -- 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.
520 $a"...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
650 0 $aDance$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aExistentialism.
650 0 $aPhenomenology.
650 0 $aModern dance$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aAesthetics.
600 10 $aNagrin, Daniel.
600 10 $aSokolow, Anna.
600 10 $aKing, Kenneth,$d1948-
600 10 $aFenley, Molissa.
600 10 $aStreb, Elizabeth.
600 10 $aCunningham, Merce.
600 10 $aNikolais, Alwin.
776 1 $aFraleigh, Sondra Horton, 1939-$tDance and the lived body.$dPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1987$w(OCoLC)319544586
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