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Elucidates the field of movement and dance somatics.   Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics explores the relationships between self, world, and earth to understand the experience of being alive and corporeal. In doing so, Sondra Fraleigh develops a philosophy of an ethical world gaze that promises to enliven the senses. Chapters borrow from wide-ranging intellectual influences—phenomenology, Buddhism, butoh, dialogics, aesthetics, poetry, feminism, ecology, and more—Fraleigh describes the ways somatics can help people to feel well, practice empathetic communication, and recognize the psychic, unpredictable edges of experience as they move. An interview with Amanda Williamson complements the chapters. “The body is the fascinating home for all our dispositions,” Fraleigh tells hers. “Spiritual qualities are embodied. We dance and sing them into being.”

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Sondra Fraleigh is professor emeritus of dance at the State University of New York (SUNY Brockport), a Fulbright scholar and award-winning author of nine books, including Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance (University of Illinois Press, 2019), Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch (University of Illinois Press, 2015) and BUTOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy (University of Illinois Press, 2010). Land to Water Yoga (iUniverse Press, 2008) is her book on somatic yoga and infant movement development. She also has numerous book chapters on culture, aesthetics and ecology. Fraleigh was chair of the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport for nine years, later head of graduate dance studies and also selected by SUNY as a university-wide faculty exchange scholar. Her choreography has been seen internationally. She was a teaching fellow at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo and at the University of Baroda in India. Fraleigh is the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute for the study of dance, yoga and movement.

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