Dance and the viewer
 

Delany, to illustrate the difficulty of defining genres of art, notes that "[m]any dances are a case of movement that is supposed to give pleasure to whoever watches"
 
though to make his point he immediately counters this, noting that "there are whole sets of religious dances throughout the world where the pleasure of the viewer is quite secondary or simply irrelevant to their purpose"

> from Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (2009), Carl Freedman, ed.

> tagged with #pleasure, #spirituality, #perception, #dance

> created May 20, 2025 at 9:54:04 AM


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