Dancing into darkness : Butoh, Zen, and Japan / Sondra Horton Fraleigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton, 1939- author.

Series:

University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions

University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Butō.

Zen arts--Japan.

Zen arts.

Japan.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press ; [London?] : Dance Books, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Jacket

"Butoh, also known as "dance of darkness," is a postmodern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body, or "the body that has not been robbed," as butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata put it. Butoh has become increasingly popular in the United States and throughout the world, diversifying its aesthetic, while at the same time asserting the power of its spiritual foundations."--Jacket

Contents:

Introduction: The Difference the Other Makes

Forgotten Garden: Natsu Nakajima's Performance in Montreal

The Marble Bath: Ryokan in Takayama

My Mother: Kazuo Ohno's Class in Yokohama

Shibui and the Sublime: Sankai Juku's Performance in Toronto

My Mother's Face: Natsu Nakajima's Workshop in Toronto

Shards: Saburo Teshigawara's Performance in Toronto

Empty Land: Natsu Nakajima's Performance in New York

American Mother and Shinto: In Ohno Village

Liebe: Susanne Linke and Toru Iwashita

Beginner's Body: Yoko Ashikawa's Class in Tokyo

Tree: Min Tanaka's Choreography in Tokyo

Amazing Grace: Kazuo Ohno's Performance in Yokohama

Hot Spring: In Hakone Yumoto

The Waters of Life: Kazuo Ohno's Workshop in Yokohama

How I Got the Name "Bright Road Friend": With Zen Teacher Shodo Akane in Tsuchiura

The Existential Answer: Interview with Butoh Critic Nario Goda in Tokyo

Hokohtai, the Walking Body: Yoko Ashikawa's Performance in New York

Dance and Zen, Kyo Ikiru: With Zen Teacher Shodo Akane in Tokyo

Prose and Haiku on Japan

Post-Butoh Chalk: Annamirl van der Pluijm's Performance in Montreal

Dust and Breath: Sankai Juku's Performance in Toronto

The Hanging Body: Joan Laage's Performance in Brockport, New York

Zen and Wabi-Sabi Taste: Setsuko Yamada's Performance in Toronto

The Community Body: Akira Kasai and Yumiko Yoshioka.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263) and index.

ISBN:

9780822990628

0822990628

OCLC:

887803111