The phenomenology of dance / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Philosophy.

Dance.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 141 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: "When we look at a dance, what do we see?" Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, are still provocative and acutely significant today. Sheets-Johnstone considers dance as an aesthetic mode of expression, and integrates theories of dance into philosophical discussions of the nature of movement. Back in print after nearly 20 years, The Phenomenology of Dance provides an informed approach to teaching dance and to dance education, appreciation, criticism, and choreography. In addition to the foreword by Merce Cunningham from the original edition, and the preface from the second edition, this fiftieth anniversary edition includes an in-depth introduction that critically and constructively addresses present-day scholarship on movement and dance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Perspective 1

2 Phenomenology: An Approach to Dance 7

3 A Phenomenological Account of the Illusion of Force 25

4 The Plastic Components of Virtual Force 39

5 Abstraction 47

6 Expression 62

7 Dynamic Line 69

8 More on Dynamic Line: A Phenomenological Concept of Rhythm 81

9 The Imaginative Space of Dance 91

10 Educational Implications: Dance Composition 105

11 Educational Implications: Dance as Art 116.

Notes:

Reprint of the ed. published by University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1966.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index.

ISBN:

9781439912614

1439912610

9781439912621

1439912629

9781439912638

1439912637

OCLC:

893896013