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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. \u0022Butoh is not an aesthetic movement grafted onto Western dance, \u0022 Fraleigh concludes, \u0022and Western dance may be more Eastern than we have been able to see. \u0022

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&ldquo;Should inspire anyone interested in the active feminine voice...It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism.&rdquo;<br> &mdash;Janice LaPointe-Crump, Texas Woman's University

Should inspire anyone interested in the active feminine voice...It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism. <br> --Janice LaPointe-Crump, Texas Woman's University

Through examining the other, one learns about one s own culture, values, and aesthetics. . . Sondra s book allows us to do this, because of her subject, remarkable insights, and captivating writing style. Joan Laage, Artistic Director of Dappin' Butoh

Through examining the 'other, ' one learns about one's own culture, values, and aesthetics. . . Sondra's book allows us to do this, because of her subject, remarkable insights, and captivating writing style. --Joan Laage, Artistic Director of Dappin' Butoh Should inspire anyone interested in the active feminine voice...It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism. --Janice LaPointe-Crump, Texas Woman's University Should inspire anyone interested in the active feminine voice...It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism. Janice LaPointe-Crump, Texas Woman's University Through examining the other, one learns about one s own culture, values, and aesthetics. . . Sondra s book allows us to do this, because of her subject, remarkable insights, and captivating writing style. Joan Laage, Artistic Director of Dappin' Butoh Through examining the other, one learns about one s own culture, values, and aesthetics. . . Sondra s book allows us to do this, because of her subject, remarkable insights, and captivating writing style. Joan Laage, Artistic Director of Dappin' Butoh Through examining the 'other, ' one learns about one's own culture, values, and aesthetics. . . Sondra's book allows us to do this, because of her subject, remarkable insights, and captivating writing style. --Joan Laage, Artistic Director of Dappin' Butoh Should inspire anyone interested in the active feminine voice...It has a niche beyond the dancer-reader, to those drawn to Japan, to cultural anthropology, and to cross-culturalism. -Janice LaPointe-Crump, Texas Woman's University Through examining the 'other,' one learns about one's own culture, values, and aesthetics. . . Sondra's book allows us to do this, because of her subject, remarkable insights, and captivating writing style. -Joan Laage, Artistic Director of Dappin' Butoh

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Sondra Horton Fraleigh chairs the Department of Dance at the State University of New York, Brockport. She is the author of Dance and the Lived Body and co-editor (with Penelope Hanstein) of Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry. Her articles have

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