Dance or Physical Thoughts

Thoughtful

Philosophy, by definition, is an understanding of ideas. To know where we are going, we must conduct a comprehension of where to go and why we must go. This pertains to every aspect of life. With me, what is my philosophy, and how does it relate to a dancer.

Dance is a perception of thoughts in motion. There are different approaches to dance, it can be an impromptu of emotion, or it can be choreographed concept of ideas and ideals. Philosophers and thinkers do not find philosophy as just an activity but a relationship between the world and the individual. Our senses are enthralled with dance, viewing dance can engage our minds into thought.

We take advantage of dance as a method of concepts that philosophy can interpret in discovering the deeper meaning of others and ourselves.

Rudolf von Laban, a dancer and movement theoretician provided the Laban movement analysis as a language explaining the human movement.

In this explanation, he provides categories of movement: Body, Effort, Shape, and Space. In the “effort” category where the system explores the understanding of the move with the intention of the person. Not to get too in-depth about this system, but the effort has four factors on this method.

The four elements, space, weight, time, and flow, can break into different combinations, creating a language to be interpreted.

This offers an exploration of the inner intentions of why we do these movements in our dance. This breaks into our psychological characteristics and explains with movement our expressions. Our challenges, feelings, and mind are molded together in a move for the sake of appearance.

Mindsets

To be able to think and create within the body can represent purpose or meaning. Dance is an indicator of symbolic meaning with an aesthetic recognized by peers and observers. It manifests cultures while still frequently being an ephemeral art form. Philosophy studies our nature, reality, and existence, where there is no absolute truth. This interpretive nature of philosophy is similar to the temporary art of dance. In its unrehearsed rawest form, dancing is hard to recreate but must be appreciated when experienced. As quickly as the result of a dance vanishes, it still is necessary to explore the reason for its existence. This isn’t the only concept or approach to dance. There are rehearsed and planned (choreographed) movements in an attempt to have a record of dance.

The expansion of coordinated and choreographed efforts to construct and preserve dance exists just as thoughts in journals and books of great thinkers in philosophy. Because we can not have the absolute answer in many philosophy ideals in thinking about the nature of human thought and beyond, it is the same reason dance is woven in philosophy. The effort, intention, expression of why we dance is a question of our philosophy.