Articles About Sondra's Work

"The Phantom Turtleneck: Somatic Process and Transformation"
Sondra Fraleigh with Patricia Simmons
Contact Quarterly 28/1 (Winter/Spring 2003): 38 - 46

The Phantom Turtleneck is a case study by Sondra Fraleigh with her student, Patricia Simmons. It is a story of moving and being moved in a healing dance in which teacher and student agree to write about it, each from her own perspective. The authors avoid the asymmetrical constructs of teacher/student and therapist/recipient. As in contact improvisation, movement passes back and forth, and both participants build progressively on what they receive. The article details Patricia's post-operative trauma (the phantom turtleneck experienced as an omnipresent tight restriction) her recovery through somatics work with Sondra, and three key movement/hands-on lessons in the process.

"Dance Phenomenology and the Feel of Cool Potatoes: An Interview with Sondra Fraleigh"
Rebecca Enghauser
Somatics: Magazine-Journal of the Mind/Body Arts and Sciences 13/4 (Spring/Summer 2002): 4 - 9

In this interview with Sondra Fraleigh, Rebecca Enghauser, a student of somatic studies explores what she calls "Sondra's uniquely powerful methodology, combining her background in the Feldenkrais Method, Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Butoh dance , and other aesthetic, restorative, and Authentic Movement perspectives." Rebecca also shows how Sondra's rigorous philosophical research and writing has been carried out, "completely via embodiment".