I like the description of dance as being between the lines.... Maybe bharatanatyam is different from American modern forms, but there are structural rules and syntax for connecting typical movements (vocabularies) and these become definitive of "Style" in most dance forms. So whether it is bharatanatyam or release technique-based, even when it is "extra-ordinary" dance still maintains certain consistent patterns even when the patterns have not yet been identified or labelled. Maybe we should be thinking in terms of linguistic systems rather than in terms of language? After all, mathematics and music share some of the same communicative structures as are found in dance. Uttara
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