The Complexity of Goodness: Musicality Book Club, Week 6
This week we’re on Chapter 6 of Bridge of Waves: Music as Life. Only the second page into this chapter and I let out a big sigh. How many arguments have I listened to in which dancers have insisted that because dance is a form of self-expression anything goes and nothing is bad or wrong? While I appreciate their desire to emphasize personal freedom, I have always believed they have gone to the extreme in putting that freedom above connection, which is just as central to partner dance as freedom of self-expression. The point of partner dance is to communicate and connect to create a shared expression, just as the purpose of a conversation is to give and receive for mutual understanding, not to just get words out by talking at the same time.
Here are some thoughts from Mathieu on this:
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