Dancing into darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan

by Fraleigh, Sondra Horton

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Title Statements

Full title :Dancing into darkness : Butoh, Zen, and Japan / Sondra Horton Fraleigh.

Summary

"Butoh, also known as "dance of darkness," is a postmodern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body, or "the body that has not been robbed," as butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata put it. Butoh has become increasingly popular in the United States and throughout the world, diversifying its aesthetic, while at the same time asserting the power of its spiritual foundations."--Jacket

"Dancing Into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an audience member to that of assimilation as a student. As a student of Zen and butoh, Fraleigh witnesses her own artistic and personal transformation through essays, poems, interviews, and reflections spanning twelve years of study, much of it in Japan. Numerous performance photographs and original calligraphy by Fraleigh's Zen teacher Shodo Akane illuminate her words."--Jacket

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1999

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Dance Books, University of Pittsburgh Press
Place of Publication:Pittsburgh, Pa
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1999

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822990628, 0822990628
oclc:ocn887803111
LC Classification:GV1783.2.B87
Dewey Decimal:792.8/0952

Subjects

Art zen -- Japon Arts zen -- Japon Butō Butō-Tanz Dans Japan PERFORMING ARTS -- Dance PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater Toneel Zen Zen art Zen art -- Japan Zen arts Zen arts -- Japan Zen-Buddhismus