Abstracting Dance: Detaching Ourselves from the Habitual Perception of the Moving Body
This work explores to what extent the notion of abstraction in dance is valid and what it entails. Unlike abstraction in the fine arts that aims for a certain independence from representation of the external world through the use of non-figurative elements, dance is realized by a highly familiar obj...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2017-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00776/full |