Back to the dance itself : phenomenologies of the body in performance /
Phenomenologies of the body in performance
edited with essays by Sondra Fraleigh.
- xxiv, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Back to the Dance Itself: An Introduction -- World as Body : -- Phenomenology and Lifeworld / Branching into Phenomenologies / Improvising Meaning in the Age of Humans / Performing Life and Language : -- Improvisation as Paradigm for Phenomenologies / Falling in Love with Language / Living Phenomenology / Body and Place : -- As the Earth Dances: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming / Filming Jitdance: Detroit Redux / Being Ma: Moonlight Peeping through the Doorway / Questions of Self-Knowing : -- "What If . . .": A Question of Transcendence / "Me, a Tree": Young Children as Natural Phenomenologists / Dancing Epistemology, Situating Feminist Analysis / Sondra Fraleigh -- Sondra Fraleigh -- Robert Bingham -- Vida L. Midgelow -- Amanda Williamson -- Sondra Fraleigh -- Kimerer L. LaMothe -- Joanna McNamara -- Christine Bellerose -- Hillel D. Braude and Ami Shulman -- Karen Bond -- Karen Barbour. Part I. 1. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. 6. Part III. 7. 8. 9. Part IV. 10. 11. 12.
"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."--Publisher's website.