DANCE AND INNER FEELING

Dance and Inner Feeling

Dance and Inner Feeling

Just what is dance? This essential question has frequent answers. Is a child's rather automatic rhythmic reaction to deep emotion, just like blissfully jumping up and down, dance? No. Is it the equivalent as outgoing, dance similar to displays by animals? Number of Ethnologists call these ritual performances fixed action patterns, or programmed Motor sequences. That, as animals, as the mature and interact with their own species in their natural environment (Gow, 2001). These animals "dance" as an immediate sense of communication (eg, fear, hunger, health, aggression, assurances, representations, sexual ...