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By Kimerer LaMothe

Within highbrow paradigms that privilege brain over topic, dance has lengthy seemed as a marginal, spinoff, or primitive artwork. Drawing aid from theorists and artists who embody topic as dynamic and agential, this ebook deals a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive paintings within the ongoing evolution of human folks.

Why We Dance introduces a philosophy of physically turning into that posits physically circulate because the resource and telos of human existence. inside this philosophy, dance seems to be as an task that people advanced to do because the permitting situation in their top physically turning into. Weaving theoretical mirrored image with debts of lived event, this e-book positions dance as a catalyst within the improvement of human awareness, compassion, ritual proclivity, and ecological adaptability. Aligning with tendencies in new materialism, impact conception, and feminist philosophy, in addition to advances in dance and non secular stories, this paintings finds the very important function dance can play in reversing the trajectory of ecological self-destruction alongside which human civilization is racing.

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No longer circulating old thoughts. Consciousness floats and spreads through my bodily self. I become a field of waves where new impulses arise—new thoughts, feelings, shapes of action. 1 I want to be this current right now, for I want to think about movement— my movement, your movement, and the movement of all that is. I want to think about life from the perspective of movement while I myself am feeling it and then I want to write it down. From years of practice, I already know that dancing makes a difference in who I am.

The Many. Quivering, rippling, folding; giving rise to a swell, an arc, a difference, a dance. Movement is creating, becoming, relating. Movement stirs in every story of how it all begins, whether that tale is religious or scientific, political or mythic. At the limits of human knowledge, there is no one nor thing that moves. There is breathing, blowing, spitting, laughing, weaving, or banging about. There is no mass, no entity, no being that exists prior to 27 To Dance Is to Matter the moving that begins it all.

It is not a function of a reproductive process in which genes are passed on and realized. A nose that looks and functions like a nose does so because of movements made along trajectories of possibility that allow it to develop as it has: the movements of embryo, air, and odor; of mucous, cilia, electric sparks, and neural axons; of place and time and of the nose itself. All these movements— and more—combine in a complex choreography that allows a nose to be what it is: a potential for being moved by the movement of an airborne scent.

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