The Phenomenology of Dance
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The Phenomenology of Dance

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The Phenomenology of Dance

About this book

When The Phenomenology of Dance was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: "When we look at a dance, what do we see?" Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, are still provocative and acutely significant today. Sheets-Johnstone considers dance as an aesthetic mode of expression, and integrates theories of dance into philosophical discussions of the nature of movement.
 
Back in print after nearly 20 years, The Phenomenology of Dance provides an informed approach to teaching dance and to dance education, appreciation, criticism, and choreography. In addition to the foreword by Merce Cunningham from the original edition, and the preface from the second edition, this fiftieth anniversary edition includes an in-depth introduction that critically and constructively addresses present-day scholarship on movement and dance.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
  4. Preface to the Second Edition
  5. 1. Perspective
  6. 2. Phenomenology: An Approach to Dance
  7. 3. A Phenomenological Account of the Illusion of Force
  8. 4. The Plastic Components of Virtual Force
  9. 5. Abstraction
  10. 6. Expression
  11. 7. Dynamic Line
  12. 8. More on Dynamic Line: A Phenomenological Concept of Rhythm
  13. 9. The Imaginative Space of Dance
  14. 10. Educational Implications: Dance Composition
  15. 11. Educational Implications: Dance as Art
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index