Dance and the Lived Body — A Descriptive Aesthetics by Sondra Horton Fraleigh. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. xli + 284 pp., illustrations. $29.95.

Abstract

In her remarkable book, Sondra Horton Fraleigh 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.