Sondra Horton Fraleigh Quotes

• Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh

  Art, Giving, Substance

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• [... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh

  Skills, Names, Feelings

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• Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh

  Skills, Ballet, Intellectual

  Sondra Horton Fraleigh (1996). “Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics”, p.53, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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