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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 midcentury founding under a sign of darkness to its assimilation in the twenty-first century as a poignant performance medium with philosophical and political implications. Employing intellectual and aesthetic perspectives to reveal the origins, major figures, and international development of the dance, Fraleigh documents the range and variety of butoh artists around the world with first-hand knowledge of butoh performances from 1973 to 2008.

Butō --- Modern dance --- Zen arts --- Danse moderne --- Arts zen --- Arts, Zen --- Buddhist arts --- Ankoku Buto --- Butoh --- Butō.

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Combining critical analysis with personal history and poetry, Dancing Identity presents a series of interconnected essays composed over a period of fifteen years. Taken as a whole, these meditative reflections on memory and on the ways we perceive and construct our lives represent Sondra Fraleigh's journey toward self-definition as informed by art, ritual, feminism, phenomenology, poetry, autobiography, and-always-dance.Fraleigh's brilliantly inventive fusions of philosophy and movement clarify often complex philosophical issues and apply them to dance history and aesthetics. She illustrates her discussions with photographs, dance descriptions, and stories from her own past in order to bridge dance with everyday movement. Seeking to recombine the fractured and bifurcated conceptions of the body and of the senses that dominate much Western discourse, she reveals how metaphysical concepts are embodied and presented in dance, both on stage and in therapeutic settings.Examining the role of movement in personal and political experiences, Fraleigh reflects on her major influences, including Moshe Feldenkrais, Kazuo Ohno, and Twyla Tharp. She draws on such varied sources as philosophers Simone de Beauvoir and Martin Heidegger, the German expressionist dancer Mary Wigman, Japanese Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, Hitler, the Bomb, Miss America, Balanchine, and the goddess figure of ancient cultures. Dancing Identity offers new insights into modern life and its reconfigurations in postmodern dance.

Dance --- Art and dance. --- Art and dancing --- Dance and art --- Philosophy. --- Performing Arts

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The popularity of yoga and Zen meditation has heightened awareness of somatic practices. Individuals develop the conscious embodiment central to somatics work via movement and dance, or through touch from a skilled teacher or therapist often called a somatic bodyworker. Methods of touch and movement foster generative processes of consciousness in order to create a fluid interconnection between sensation, thought, movement, and expression. In Moving Consciously, Sondra Fraleigh gathers essays that probe ideas surrounding embodied knowledge and the conscious embodiment of movement and dance. Using a variety of perspectives on movement and dance somatics, Fraleigh and other contributors draw on scholarship and personal practice to participate in a multifaceted investigation of a thriving worldwide phenomenon. Their goal: to present the mental and physical health benefits of experiencing one's inner world through sensory awareness and movement integration

Spirituality. --- Somesthesia. --- Mind and body. --- Dance. --- Yoga. --- Movement therapy. --- Dance --- Bodily sensation awareness --- Body consciousness --- Body sense --- Sense, Body --- Somaesthesia --- Somatesthesia --- Somatic sensation --- Somesthesis --- Senses and sensation --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- Mind and body therapies --- Exercise therapy --- Yoga --- Yoga exercises --- Exercise --- Philosophy, Indic --- Body and mind --- Body and soul (Philosophy) --- Human body --- Mind --- Mind-body connection --- Mind-body relations --- Mind-cure --- Somatopsychics --- Brain --- Dualism --- Philosophical anthropology --- Holistic medicine --- Mental healing --- Parousia (Philosophy) --- Phrenology --- Psychophysiology --- Self --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Study and teaching --- Psychological aspects. --- Hinduism --- Psychological aspects

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Butō --- Modern dance --- Ankoku Buto --- Butoh --- Ōno, Kazuo, --- Hijikata, Tatsumi, --- Ohno, Kazuo, --- 大野一雄, --- Yoneyama, Kunio, --- 土方巽, --- J6811.60 --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- dance -- butō (butoh) --- Ōno, Kazuo --- Hijikata, Tatsumi --- dance [discipline] --- theater [discipline] --- Kazuo, Ono --- Japan --- dance [performing arts genre]

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'Routledge Performance Practitioners' is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books unravel the contribution of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. 'Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo' is the first book to combine: an account of the founding of Japanese butoh through the partnership of Hijikata and Ohno, extending to the larger story of butoh's international assimilation. an exploration of the impact of the social and political issues of post World War II Japan on the aesthetic development of butoh. metamorphic dance experiences that students of butoh can explore. a glossary of English and Japanese terms. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on tofurther, primary research, 'Routledge Performance Practitioners 'are unbeatable value for today's student.

Ohno, Kazuo --- Hijikata, Tatsumi --- Butō --- Modern dance --- Butō. --- Butō. --- Modern dance - Japan