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Writing about dance is one of the hardest assignments anyone could hope for: writers may think in print, but dancers think in mo- tion. The essence of movement gets lost in the syntax, and the writer can only suggest im- ages that will force the reader ' s imagination to recreate the dance. The result is frustration; the effort, in many cases, futile. So, novelists write theory, artists write manifestoes, dan- cers write autobiographies. I ' m faced with the criticism that dance is merely narcissism made performing art. It ' s painfully true. I would like to believe otherwise, but I ' m afraid self-love is implicit in the creative process — if it ' s not applause you ' re competiting for, its gallery prizes or National Book Awards or any smaller species of pats-on-the-back. Why does anyone create but to receive love? And yet there must be more to it than that, for all artists are not love- starved egomaniacs. Though some might argue that dance re- quires self-obsession, it precludes self- indulgence. Dance is a discipline as well as an art form. More rigorous than all the demands of of diet and exercise is the psychological discipline of belief in self — the confidence that, as a choreographer, one has something important to say, and that, as a performer, one ' s means of expression is worthy of so- meone else ' s designs. Priorities are delicately arranged, but the dance must always come first. Edwin Denby realized that, A fine dancer who believes in dancing more than in himself is a wonderful thing. This discipline of emotion is perhaps hardest of all. Self-pity manifests itself in new ways: adhering to old patterns of movement, breaking the diet, cutting a class. These are only temporary setbacks in along line of what must be called temporary advances. For children, movement is spontaneous. They jump for joy, they shake with laughter. As we grow, movement becomes more calculated, backed by a conscious design. Dance as an art form contains elements of each: composition and improvisation, choreography and performance. How is movement created? Perhaps more than any other art, dance involves every aspect of the personality in creation: the con- scious mind develops the intent as far as it may go in ideas, the subconscious mind creates the movement, and the body executes
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