Verlag:
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn
A treasure trove of writings by America's only dancing philosopher I: Transmedia -- Digital body/millennial wor(l)d -- Through me many voices -- Word raid (impossible tongue twisters for E.E. Cummings) -- From out of the field of vision (or finally:...
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A treasure trove of writings by America's only dancing philosopher I: Transmedia -- Digital body/millennial wor(l)d -- Through me many voices -- Word raid (impossible tongue twisters for E.E. Cummings) -- From out of the field of vision (or finally: the Internet) -- The telaxic synapsulator (the future of machine) -- II: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex: Julie Taymor--Seiji Ozawa--Jessye Norman -- Writing over history and time: Maurice Blanchot and Jackie O. -- Dreams and collage -- Sight and cipher -- A pipe of fancy (vision's plenitude): Joseph Cornell, an appreciation -- III: Autobiopathy -- The body reflexive -- Metagexis (Joseph's song) -- Appeal to the unknown prayer to the great void (mappings for a metatheology).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198). - Print version record
Dance and the lived body
a descriptive aesthetics
Erschienen:
[1987]
Verlag:
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa
" ... examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific...
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" ... examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Weiner, and Garth Fagan."--Publisher Preface -- Introduction. Dance and existentialism : personal notes ; Existential context of modern dance ; Existential themes of modern dance -- Part 1. Dance and Embodiment. Dance and the lived body. Existential phenomenology ; Dance and dualism ; Overcoming dualism ; Spontaneous body -- Dance and self. Self known in its works ; The dancer in the dance ; The dance object: I-It ; Being the dance: I-Thou -- Dance itself. Of our own making ; Irreducible structure of dance ; Classical and existential models ; Inmost dance : immanent body -- Dance and the other. Passing between ; The dance stands out ; Body-for-other ; Poetic body -- Part 2. A Tension of Opposites. Dance tension. Cosmic motion and dance tension ; Phenomenal tensions in dance -- Point counterpoint. Definition-redefinition ; Countering definition ; The expressive subject : Nagrin and Sokolow ; The formative object : King, Fenley, Streb, Cunningham, Nikolais -- Expressionist-formalist tension. Aesthetic-historic tension ; Moving against expression ; Deconstruction and regeneration ; Cunningham and koans ; Transformations -- Mythic polarity. Female-male archetypes ; Genius of the heart ; Body of nature and culture ; Body of earth and heaven -- Part 3. Sign for Life. Acts of light. Dance and metaphysics ; Lived metaphysics ; Daily work -- Moving time-space. Our body of time and space ; Poetics of time and space -- Measure and relationship. Moving once ; Moving as one ; Moving as two ; Moving as a group -- Dance images. Of life: the dance image: Humphrey's Passacaglia, Sokolow's Dreams ; Falling everyday life : Farber's Ledge ; The open center: Wiener's Wind devil ; Fagan's Oatka Trail.