MSP 95: Sondra Fraleigh

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PODCAST No.95 –

Sondra Fraleigh

Release Date: 2.7.20

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ABOUT SONDRA

Sondra Fraleigh is professor emeritus of the State University of New York at Brockport, a Fulbright Scholar, SUNY Faculty Exchange Scholar, and an award winning author of nine books: Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance (2018); Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch (2015);BUTOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy (2010); Land to Water Yoga (2009); Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo (2006) on the founders of butoh; Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion (2004); Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan (1999); Researching Dance(1998); and Dance and the Lived Body (1987). She has also published numerous articles and book chapters. Fraleigh was chair of the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport for nine years and later head of graduate dance. Her innovative choreography has been seen in the USA, Germany, Japan, and India. Fraleigh is the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute.

ABOUT: MFA IN DANCE at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY

Guided by the belief that dance is a fundamental embodied practice for understanding the human condition in a globalized context, the MFA in Dance at Rutgers University establishes students as creatively literate world citizens who can develop interdisciplinary solutions to address complex contemporary issues. Our interdisciplinary approach is the hallmark of the MFA in Dance, offering working dance professionals the opportunity to study with award-winning dance artists, scholars, and educators.

Rutgers’ Dance Department Graduate Faculty, as well as guest artists and scholars such as Sondra Fraleigh and Pavel Zustiak, support the MFA in Dance degree’s goals of curricular integration of theory and practice towards developing each MFA students’ interdisciplinary praxis.

Applications are being accepted for the Summer 2020 cohort.
For more information: dance@mgsa.rutgers.edu or 848-932-1345.