商品の説明
内容紹介
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 is not an aesthetic movement grafted onto Western dance, " Fraleigh concludes, "and Western dance may be more Eastern than we have been able to see. "
引用 終わり
感想
暗黒舞踏が、アメリカでも、認知されていることが分かった。
著者のSondra Horton Fraleigh氏は、暗黒舞踏と禅を関連付けて解説している。
私にとって暗黒舞踏は不気味なダンスだが、著者にとっては東洋の神秘的なダンスである。
著者の視点は、私になかったので、新鮮で興味深い。
