Dancing Into Darkness

Butoh, Zen, and Japan

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Performing Arts, Dance, Modern
Cover of the book Dancing Into Darkness by Sondra Horton Fraleigh, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Author: Sondra Horton Fraleigh ISBN: 9780822990628
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: July 15, 1999
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: Sondra Horton Fraleigh
ISBN: 9780822990628
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: July 15, 1999
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

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.

The pieces of Dancing Into Darkness cross boundaries, just as butoh anticipates a growing global amalgamation. "Butoh is not an aesthetic movement grafted onto Western dance, " Fraleigh concludes, "and Western dance may be more Eastern than we have been able to see. "

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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.

The pieces of Dancing Into Darkness cross boundaries, just as butoh anticipates a growing global amalgamation. "Butoh is not an aesthetic movement grafted onto Western dance, " Fraleigh concludes, "and Western dance may be more Eastern than we have been able to see. "

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