Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics

By Sondra Fraleigh

Book Overview

In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the "lived body," She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Weiner, and Garth Fagan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822935481
• ISBN13: 9780822935483
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.