| ID | 017066 |
| Call Number | 792.80952/FRA |
| Title Proper | Dancing into darkness : Butoh, Zen and Japan |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Fraleigh, Sandra Horton |
| Publication | Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. |
| Description | xiii, 272p Silver spine |
| Note | '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. The pieces of 'Dancing into darkness' cross boundaries, just as Butoh anticipates a growing global amalgamation.
"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." |
| Note | Forgotten garden : Natsu Nakajima, performance
The marble bath : Takayama Ryokan, poetry
My mother : Kazuo Ohno, dance class
Shibui and the sublime : Sankai Juku, performance
My mother's face : Natsu Nakajima, workshop
Shards : Saburo Teshigawara, performance
Empty land : Natsu Nakajima, performance
American mother and Shinto : Ohno Village, travels
Liebe Susanne Linke and Toru Iwashita, performances
Beginner's body : Yoko Ashikawa, dance class
Tree installation : Min Tanaka, performance
Amazing grace : Kazuo Ohno, performance
Hot spring : Hakone Yumoto, poetry
The waters of life : Kazuo Ohno, dance class
How I got the name "Bright Road Friend" : Shodo Akane, Zen
The existential answer : Nario Goda, interview
Hokohtai, the walking body : Yoko Ashikawa, performance
Dance and Zen, Kyo Ikiru : Shodo Akane, Zen prose and haiku on Japan, poetry
Postbutoh Chalk : Anamirl Van der Pluijm, performance
Dust and breath : Sankai Juku, performance and poetry
The hanging body : Joan Laage, performance
Zen and Wabi-Sabi Taste : Setsuko Yamada, performance
The community body : Akira Kasai and Yumiko Yoshioka |
| Standard Number | 9780822940982 |
| Price. Qualification | $40.62(Hb) |
| Classification Number | 792.80952 |
| Key Words | IBDP ; Theatre arts ; Butoh ; Dance - Japan ; Zen arts - Japan |