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Kinesthetic Communication in Dance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Mary M. Smyth
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“Dance is movement that has been organized so that it is rewarding to behold,” writes Anderson (1974, p. 9), and many of those who talk or write about dance have attempted to explain the way in which dance rewards the beholder by considering the processes by which dance communicates. Anderson goes on to say: “…dance communicates because it prompts responses within us. Dance is not simply a visual art, it is kinesthetic as well; it appeals to our inherent sense of motion” (p. 9). This distinction between visual and kinesthetic communication is one which many dancers find appealing. The kinesthetic communication is not analyzed further, but rather, it becomes an easy way of stating the special status of dance as an art form. That is, there is a special sense for which only dance can provide aesthetic satisfaction.

Type
Research Article
Information
Dance Research Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Fall 1984 , pp. 19 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1984

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