Twists and Turns Modern Misconceptions of Peripatetic Dance Theory
Scott, Gregory
Twists and Turns Modern Misconceptions of Peripatetic Dance Theory / Gregory Scott .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2005
20 p.
Dance Research -- Vol. 23, núm. 2, Winter 2005, p. 153 - 172
RESUMEN: I shall provide what I believe is the best interpretation of Aristotle's brief but rich remarks on dance in the Poetics. Afterwards, I shall try to show how not only Levinson and Copeland missed some crucial tenets but how even a dance theorist who is friendly to Aristotle, Joanna Friesen, has, by not being rigorous enough, jeopardized the value and acceptance of his thought. By doing all of this, I hope to help place dance scholars in a more advantageous position vis-à-vis other debates that have been built on the Poetics from the Renaissance onwards concerning the role of dance in the arts and in life in general, whether or not those debates are new or are part of any re-examination of traditional ones that were once seemingly settled, say, in favor of literature.
Twists and Turns Modern Misconceptions of Peripatetic Dance Theory / Gregory Scott .-- Edinburgh: : Edinburgh University Press, , 2005
20 p.
Dance Research -- Vol. 23, núm. 2, Winter 2005, p. 153 - 172
RESUMEN: I shall provide what I believe is the best interpretation of Aristotle's brief but rich remarks on dance in the Poetics. Afterwards, I shall try to show how not only Levinson and Copeland missed some crucial tenets but how even a dance theorist who is friendly to Aristotle, Joanna Friesen, has, by not being rigorous enough, jeopardized the value and acceptance of his thought. By doing all of this, I hope to help place dance scholars in a more advantageous position vis-à-vis other debates that have been built on the Poetics from the Renaissance onwards concerning the role of dance in the arts and in life in general, whether or not those debates are new or are part of any re-examination of traditional ones that were once seemingly settled, say, in favor of literature.