Why We Dance - A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming

Offers a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Why Dance?
1. To Dance Is to Matter
2. To Dance Is to Evolve
3. To Dance Is to Know
4. To Dance Is to Be Born
5. To Dance Is to Connect
6. To Dance Is to Heal
7. To Dance Is to Love
Earth Within
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Kimerer L. LaMothe is a dancer, philosopher, and scholar of religion who lives in upstate New York. She is the award-winning author of five books, including Nietzsche's Dancers and Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies.

Summary

Offers a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons.

Product details

• Authors: Kimerer Lamothe, Kimerer L. LaMothe, LaMothe Kimerer L.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2015
• EAN: 9780231171052
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17105-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; RELIGION / Spirituality, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Structuralism and Post-structuralism