[ePub] Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing; China by Ran Liu at Arts-Photography

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Within intellectual paradigms that privilege mind over matter; dance has long appeared as a marginal; derivative; or primitive art. Drawing support from theorists and artists who embrace matter as dynamic and agential; this book offers a visionary definition of dance that illuminates its constitutive work in the ongoing evolution of human persons. Why We Dance introduces a philosophy of bodily becoming that posits bodily movement as the source and telos of human life. Within this philosophy; dance appears as an activity that humans evolved to do as the enabling condition of their best bodily becoming. Weaving theoretical reflection together with accounts of lived experience; this book positions dance as a catalyst in the development of the brains; compassion; ritual proclivities; and ecological adaptability characteristic of human beings. Aligning with trends in new materialism; affect theory; and feminist philosophy; as well as advances in dance and religious studies; this book argues that dancing has a vital role to play in reversing the trajectory of ecological self-destruction along which human civilization is racing.