"(...) 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 draws upon the work of such philosophers as Colin Wilson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Martin Buber to describe dance through its lived ground, the human body itself. She makes it clear that the inherent qualities and aesthetic properties of this art form almost demand this particular analysis: dance is 'the' existential art. And this art form is complete only when there is an audience. Professor Fraleigh shows that dance brings forth the dancer in all of us, that we understand dance because of the expressive nature of our own bodies.
In a final section, the author considers various forms of dance imagery, showing that no matter how abstract it is, dance always reflects life because it is grounded in the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Wiener, and Garth Fagan."--P.[4] de la couv.
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[-]"(...) 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 draws upon the work of such philosophers as Colin Wilson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Martin Buber to describe dance through its lived ground, the human body itself. She makes it clear that the inherent qualities and aesthetic ...
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