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Working and Dancing: A Response to Monroe Beardsley's “What Is Going On in a Dance?”

Carroll, Noël, Banes, Sally·1982·Dance Research Journal
DOI 10.2307/1477693
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Professor Beardsley's paper is distinguished by his customary clarity. Many of the distinctions he draws will undoubtedly be useful not only for dance theoreticians, but for dance critics as well. Nevertheless, the way that these distinctions are placed in the service of a putative characterization of what constitutes a dance “moving” seems to us problematic. This brief note will be devoted to exploring the adequacy of Professor Beardsley's proposal. Beardsley appears to conclude his paper by stating a condition requisite for a motion to be counted as a dance “moving.” He writes, If, in other words, there is more zest, vigor, fluency, expansiveness, or stateliness than appears necessary for its practical purposes, there is an overflow or superfluity of expressiveness to mark it as belonging to its own domain of dance. We interpret Beardsley's basic point here as the claim that a superfluity of expressiveness (above the requirements of practical exigencies) is a defining feature of a dance “moving.” However, in our opinion, this attribute represents neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition of dance.

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  1. 1974, Handbook in Motion
  2. Crichton, 1977, Jasper Johns, 31
  3. Banes, Terpsichore in Sneakers, 41
  4. Fancher, 1981, Philosophical Essays in Dance, 95
  5. Beardsley, What Is Going On in a Dance?, 31

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Authors
Carroll, N., & Banes, S.
ORCID
Carroll, Noël
Venue
Dance Research Journal
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1982
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
37-41
ISSN
  • 0149-7677 (ISSN-L)
  • 1940-509X
DOI
10.2307/1477693
OpenAlex
W2330427332
Semantic Scholar
1ae6b705343805bd335a9a3a7d6ec7d992c4192a
Cited by
19
References
5
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 4 · 2013: 1
FWCI
0.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 11890 d)
Locations
Dance Research Journal (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Arts and Performance Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Diversity and Impact of Dance
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
Keywords
dance theory, dance criticism, Monroe Beardsley, expressiveness

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