Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen and Japan - Hardcover

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852730684 ISBN 13: 9781852730680

Publisher: Dance Books, 1999

Synopsis

Butoh, also known as dance of darkness, is a post-modern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body, or the body that has not been robbed. This manual provides a guide to the dance form.

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Review

Should inspire anyone interested in the active feminine voice...It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism. Janice LaPointe-Crump, Texas Woman's University" "Should inspire anyone interested in the active feminine voice...It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism."--Janice LaPointe-Crump, Texas Woman's University

About the Author

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dance Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1852730684
• ISBN 13: 9781852730680
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286