By Kimerer L. LaMothe
Within highbrow paradigms that privilege brain over topic, dance has lengthy seemed as a marginal, spinoff, or primitive paintings. Drawing help from theorists and artists who include subject as dynamic and agential, this booklet bargains a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive paintings within the ongoing evolution of human persons.
Why We Dance introduces a philosophy of physically changing into that posits physically circulation because the resource and telos of human lifestyles. inside of this philosophy, dance seems as an job that people advanced to do because the allowing situation in their top physically turning into. Weaving theoretical mirrored image including bills of lived adventure, this publication positions dance as a catalyst within the improvement of the brains, compassion, ritual proclivities, and ecological adaptability attribute of people. Aligning with tendencies in new materialism, have an effect on thought, and feminist philosophy, in addition to advances in dance and spiritual experiences, this ebook argues that dancing has a necessary position to play in reversing the trajectory of ecological self-destruction alongside which human civilization is racing.
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