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Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
Sondra Fraleigh
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Description for Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
Hardback. Tracing the international growth of a transformative Japanese dance form Num Pages: 280 pages, 32 black and white photos, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; ASD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Both a refraction of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a protest against Western values, butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. Sondra Fraleigh chronicles the growth of this provocative art form from its mid-century founding under a sign of darkness to its assimilation in the twenty-first century as a poignant performance medium with philosophical and political implications. Through highly descriptive, thoughtful, and emotional prose, Fraleigh traces the transformative alchemy of this metaphoric dance form by studying the international movement inspired by its aesthetic mixtures. While butoh has retained a ... Read more
Both a refraction of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and a protest against Western values, butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that emerged in the aftermath of World War II. Sondra Fraleigh chronicles the growth of this provocative art form from its mid-century founding under a sign of darkness to its assimilation in the twenty-first century as a poignant performance medium with philosophical and political implications. Through highly descriptive, thoughtful, and emotional prose, Fraleigh traces the transformative alchemy of this metaphoric dance form by studying the international movement inspired by its aesthetic mixtures. While butoh has retained a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035531
SKU
V9780252035531
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About Sondra Fraleigh
Sondra Fraleigh is a professor emeritus of dance at the State University of New York College at Brockport. She is the author of Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan and Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion.
Reviews for Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
"Translated poetically and mapped out with scientific precision . . . The book offers a pedagogical map for taking the time to suspend what we know, how we believe we've come to know it, and question what might happen, if we turn, spiral, slip, fall, slither, and sense our way 'back to the dance itself.'"
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