When "The Phenomenology of Dance" was first published in 1966, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone asked: When we look at a dance, what do we see? Her questions, about the nature of our experience of dance and the nature of dance as a formed and performed art, are still provocative and acutely significant today[...]
This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its [...]