Prof. Sondra Fraleigh

Sondra Fraleigh is a Fulbright Scholar and professor emeritus of the State University of New York, SUNY College at Brockport, where she chaired the Department of Dance. Her innovative choreography has been seen on tour in America, Germany, India, the UK, and Japan. She was elected as a Faculty Exchange Scholar for SUNY and is the author of nine books, including: Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance (2019); BUOH: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy (2010), Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion (2004), Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen and Japan (1999), and Dance and the Lived Body (1987, 1996). She has also published many articles and book chapters. Professor Fraleigh teaches international workshops through her Eastwest Somatics Institute, which certifies Somatic Movement Therapists and Yoga Teachers. Fraleigh lives in the beautiful red desert country of St. George Utah. She believes that the living body of the earth and our human body are interwoven, and that healing the earth and ourselves will be the major work of the 21st century.