Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252083730)

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.

Contributors: Karen Barbour, Christine Bellerose, Robert Bingham, Kara Bond, Hillel Braude, Sondra Fraleigh, Kimerer LaMothe, Joanna McNamara, Vida Midgelow, Ami Shulman, and Amanda Williamson.

Author: Sondra Horton Fraleigh
ISBN-10: 0252083733
ISBN-13: 9780252083730
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2018
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d