9. Dance Quotes

Time as a strand of the dance medium. Emma Alvarez, Lecturer, England.

p.2. 'does time shape dance or does dance shape its time? Is time in dance comparable to time in the other arts or does it display unique characteristics? What variations of time are introduced by each choreographer? What are the temporal openings specific to choreographed movement?'

p.2. 'Audiences as well as dancers cannot avoid spatial awareness, while temporalities are more easily neglected through inadvertence. Of course, there are means by which time has the capacity to become visible and audible such as rhythmic patterns in the choreography or explicit narratives like the ones in the tradition of the classical ballet, but as we will see, these are limited displays of the more profound involvement of time in dance.' 

p.2. 'A dance piece evolves in a set length of time, and then disappears.' 

p.3. '[...] filmed or videoed dance events not only have made possible a more careful attention to time, but they have also offered dance the possibility to utilise it in new ways. [...] the human body in motion is essentially recognised as the medium.'

p.3, 'In dance performances every movement is followed and preceded by another one, and sequences can only progress into further movements in the future.'

p.3. 'Time, however, is both intrinsic to other dance elements and part of the dance medium. Dance captures time but also creates it.'