Back to the Dance Itself
ebook ∣ Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance
By Sondra Horton Fraleigh
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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.
"This beautiful collection is a choreography of voices emanating directly from movement. It celebrates Sondra Fraleigh's lifetime of integrating philosophical knowledge with somatic experiences at the same time as providing an empathic space for the contributions of others. Pressing contemporary issues such as climate change, the vitality of matter, and escaping from anthropocentrism are addressed, revealing new resonances for the philosophy and practices of phenomenology."—Susan Kozel, author of Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology
"Diving deep inside the boundary spaces that link body and language, this book is a tour de force. Asking 'What makes dance what it is?', Fraleigh et al. thread experiential paths that will appeal to movement practitioners across the dance and somatics spectrum. Plural phenomenologies are made philosophically accessible, with evocative exemplars revealing dance's immense horizons: diverse, relationally purposeful and always closer than we think."—Daniel Deslauriers, California Institute of Integral Studies
|Sondra Fraleigh is a professor emeritus of the Department of Dance at State University of New York College at Brockport. She is the editor of Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through...
Contributors: Karen Barbour, Christine Bellerose, Robert Bingham, Kara Bond, Hillel Braude, Sondra Fraleigh, Kimerer LaMothe, Joanna McNamara, Vida Midgelow, Ami Shulman, and Amanda Williamson.
| Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author Biographies and Places Back to the Dance Itself: An Introduction I. World as Body Chapter 1. Phenomenology and Lifeworld Sondra Fraleigh Chapter 2. Branching into Phenomenologies Sondra Fraleigh Chapter 3. Improvising Meaning in the Age of Humans Robert Bingham II. Performing Life and Language Chapter 4. Improvisation as Paradigm for Phenomenologies Vida L. Midgelow Chapter 5. Falling in Love with Language Amanda Williamson Chapter 6. Living Phenomenology Sondra Fraleigh III. Body and Place Chapter 7. As the Earth Dances: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming Kimerer L. LaMothe Chapter 8. Filming Jitdance: Detroit Redux Joanna McNamara Chapter 9. Being Ma: Moonlight Peeping through the Doorway Christine Bellerose IV. Questions of Self-Knowing Chapter 10. "What If . . .": A Question of Transcendence Hillel D. Braude and Ami Shulman Chapter 11. "Me, a Tree": Young Children as Natural Phenomenologists Karen Bond Chapter 12. Dancing Epistemology, Situating Feminist Analysis Karen Barbour Bibliography Index |"A primer of phenomenological categories and their application in varying contexts . . . Back to the Dance Itself is like a tribute, an unplanned Festschrift, celebrating Fraleigh's contribution to the dynamic entwining of dance and phenomenology." —Journal of Folklore Research"This beautiful collection is a choreography of voices emanating directly from movement. It celebrates Sondra Fraleigh's lifetime of integrating philosophical knowledge with somatic experiences at the same time as providing an empathic space for the contributions of others. Pressing contemporary issues such as climate change, the vitality of matter, and escaping from anthropocentrism are addressed, revealing new resonances for the philosophy and practices of phenomenology."—Susan Kozel, author of Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology
"Diving deep inside the boundary spaces that link body and language, this book is a tour de force. Asking 'What makes dance what it is?', Fraleigh et al. thread experiential paths that will appeal to movement practitioners across the dance and somatics spectrum. Plural phenomenologies are made philosophically accessible, with evocative exemplars revealing dance's immense horizons: diverse, relationally purposeful and always closer than we think."—Daniel Deslauriers, California Institute of Integral Studies
|Sondra Fraleigh is a professor emeritus of the Department of Dance at State University of New York College at Brockport. She is the editor of Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through...
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