Sondra Fraleigh

Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book of highly original essays explores somatic practices in dance as they draw upon ecology and ethics; all of them speak to creativity in somatics and nonbinary whole-body consciousness.

Sondra Fraleigh explores the relationships between self, world, and earth to understand the experience of being alive and corporeal, developing a philosophy of an ethical world gaze that promises to enliven the senses. Fraleigh describes the ways somatics can help people feel well, practice empathetic communication, and recognize the psychic, unpredictable edges of experience as they move.

All of the essays are creatively threaded through phenomenology, research in neuroscience, and autotelic dance practices done for intrinsic benefits, not for the gaze of an audience. The entwinement of ethics with somatics is intended to provoke thoughtful engagement with theory and practice. Ethics extends toward ecology and somatic practice in these pages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789387216
• Artikelnr.: 66776044

Autorenporträt

Sondra Fraleigh is professor emeritus of dance at the State University of New York (SUNY Brockport), a Fulbright scholar and award-winning author of nine books, including Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance (University of Illinois Press, 2019), Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and BUTOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy (University of Illinois Press, 2010). Land to Water Yoga (iUniverse Press, 2008) is her book on somatic yoga and infant movement development. She also has numerous book chapters on culture, aesthetics and ecology. Fraleigh was chair of the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport for nine years, later head of graduate dance studies and also selected by SUNY as a university-wide faculty exchange scholar. Her choreography has been seen internationally. She was a teaching fellow at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo and at the University of Baroda in India. Fraleigh is the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute for the study of dance, yoga and movement.