{"product_id":"dancing-into-darkness-butoh-zen-and-japan-paperback","title":"Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSondra Horton Fraleigh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDancing 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. \\u0022Butoh is not an aesthetic movement grafted onto Western dance, \\u0022 Fraleigh concludes, \\u0022and Western dance may be more Eastern than we have been able to see. \\u0022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSondra Horton Fraleigh\u003c\/b\u003e chairs the Department of Dance at the State University of New York, Brockport. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDance and the Lived Body \u003c\/i\u003eand co-editor (with Penelope Hanstein) of \u003ci\u003eResearching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e. Her articles have been published in texts on dance and movement, philosophy, and cognitive development. She has been a guest teacher of dance and somatic therapy in America, Japan, England, and Norway. She has served as president of the Congress of Research in Dance and is a Faculty Exchange Scholar for the State University of New York. Her innovative choreography has been seen on tour in America, Germany, and Japan, where she has also been a visiting scholar at several universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.03 x 6.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755030184224,"sku":"9780822961154","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9802727c75c32bcaacc9a1aa8e4eddbc.webp?v=1780048733","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dancing-into-darkness-butoh-zen-and-japan-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}