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Chapter 10
The Humanities through the Arts
F. David Martin and Lee A. Jacobus
Dance is rhythmic
• Dance – moving bodies shaping space-
shares common ground with kinetic
sculpture.
• In abstract dance the center of interest is
upon visual patterns, and there is common
ground with abstract painting.
• Dance has common ground with drama,
music.
Subject Matter of Dance
• At its most basic level the subject matter of
dance is abstract motion.
• The medium of the dance is the human
body whose movements produce
sympathetic “movements” in the audience.
Subject Matter of Dance
• Our instinctive ability to identify with other
human bodies is so strong that the
perception of feelings exhibited by the
dancer often evokes something of those
feelings in ourselves.
• The choreographer, creator of the dance,
interprets those feelings.
Subject Matter of Dance
• If we participate, we may understand
those feelings and ourselves with greater
insight.
• State of mind are a further dimension that
may be the subject matter of dance.
• Feelings, of pleasure and pain are
relatively transient, but state of mind
involve attitudes, tendencies that
engender certain feelings.
Form
• The subject matter of dance can be
moving visual patterns, feelings, states of
mind, narrative, or various combinations of
these.