Dance and Aesthetic Perception

Abstract

The chapter argues that the examination of the aesthetics of dance in antiquity depends on one's approach to the aesthetic as a whole, which is here defined as the body of discourses generated in a given culture concerning the perception, the judgment, and the impact of the beautiful and kindred concepts. Diverse discourses developed in the Greek and Greco-Roman worlds about patterned human movement are discussed and emphasis is put on the pervasiveness of the notion and practice of spectatorship in these cultures. A central question raised is the interrelation between cognitive and sensual enjoyment of dance. A threefold approach to ancient orchestics as mimetic, non-mimetic, and meta-mimetic further illuminates implicit and explicit aesthetic viewpoints in antiquity.

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