Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance, edited by Fraleigh, S.

I Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body Performance i , edited with essays by Sondra Fraleigh, is a compilation of the many ways one might take up phenomenology in and through dance. Just the title itself, shifting the singular emphasis of "phenomenology" to the plural, gives a sense of what phenomenology is, and could be, within a field bound by methodological tradition. Sondra Fraleigh introduces the various chapter contributions to the book in relation to categorizations she puts forward such as philosophical phenomenology, transcendental phenomenology, existential phenomenology, heuristic phenomenology, hermeneutic phenomenology, eco-phenomenology, performative phenomenology, and neurophenomenology, but these are by no means fixed. [Extracted from the article]