What I really enjoyed about this reading is how the author writes about dance being a part of "man's social history". Reading the section about body movement being our original extension system really allowed me to understand how I have viewed dance for a long time. As children, we seek approval with "tricks" and there are many other ways we interact socially. It's interesting how your first decade on earth can affect you for years to come.
I also appreciated finding out how we gain knowledge of things (through the author's ladder examples). "Any human experience...must be abstracted and categorized if it is to become a form of knowledge." In thinking about possibilities for the fall concert, it is so easy to say you want to make a piece about relationships or your childhood or your mother. However, the more specific one gets, the easier it is to find choreography, lighting possibilities, etc.
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