This book looks at the history, characteristics and practitioners of New Dance and is the first book to cover all aspects of it.
Researching dance: evolving modes of inquiry
by Fraleigh, Sondra Horton, Hanstein, Penelope
fromDance books
This text introduces students to research methods in dance. The editors introduce dance as evolutional, raising issues of definition and naming, defining dance in view of its intrinsic participatory values, and its purposes from art to ritual.
"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 t…
"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 but…
