DANC 280g Lecture 3: Week 3
Document Summary
Sondra horton fraleigh reading dance and the lived body. Initially fraleigh discusses dance and dualism and the dualistic language of mind versus body which pervades the literature on dance. The english language insinuates that that the body is simply material substance and mechanical physiological process moved by something other than itself and the mind is pure though that escapes the material body. Dance is often defined as an art that has movement as its medium and used the body as an instrument. Fraleigh argues that dance requires a concentration of the whole person as a minded body. Plato is viewed as a dualist and advocates dancer as an art of imitation where the soul is superior to the body. Part of the problem of dualism lies in the english modern language because there is only one word for body therefore phenomenologists use the terms lived body and lived experience to distinguish the types of body.
