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OverviewCombining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on memory and on the ways we perceive and construct our lives represent Sondra Fraleigh's journey toward self-definition as informed by art, ritual, feminism, phenomenology, poetry, autobiography, and-always-dance. Fraleigh's brilliantly inventive fusions of philosophy and movement clarify often complex philosophical issues and apply them to dance history and aesthetics. She illustrates her discussions with photographs, dance descriptions, and stories from her own past in order to bridge dance with everyday movement. Seeking to recombine the fractured and bifurcated conceptions of the body and of the senses that dominate much Western discourse, she reveals how metaphysical concepts are embodied and presented in dance, both on stage and in therapeutic settings. Examining the role of movement in personal and political experiences, Fraleigh reflects on her major influences, including Moshe Feldenkrais, Kazuo Ohno, and Twyla Tharp. She draws on such varied sources as philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Martin Heidegger, the German expressionist dancer Mary Wigman, Japanese Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, Hitler, the Bomb, Miss America, Balanchine, and the goddess figure of ancient cultures. Dancing Identity offers new insights into modern life and its reconfigurations in postmodern dance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sondra Horton FraleighPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780822963004ISBN 10: 0822963000 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 31 October 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe wide-ranging themes explored in Dancing Identity are tied together by a personal narrative that is engaging and provocative, and that brings new and vital life to the once highly charged feminist claim that the personal is political. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, University of Oregon <p> The wide-ranging themes explored in Dancing Identity are tied together by a personal narrative that is engaging and provocative, and that brings new and vital life to the once highly charged feminist claim that the personal is political. <p>--Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, University of Oregon Author InformationSondra 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 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |