ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates on the emergence of the rather young dance analogy in the context of the longer practice to employ arts metaphors in organisation studies. Choreography is about organising moving bodies in space and time, and these processes are indeed central to organisational management. The basis for an interdisciplinary theorising was created when a consideration of dance and organisations slowly went beyond the mere metaphor. The application of metaphors to organisations depends on the contemporary availability of knowledge on the field. The application of dance as a metaphor expresses some conceptual ideas of body-based experience and 'movement' in organisations and in leadership as well, where it builds on dance's natural relations to practices of leading and following. The particular value in the dance approach resides in a development of this correspondence that is developed on the kinaesthetic level, leading to the topics of kinaesthetic empathy, kinaesthetic politics, kinaesthetic training and dance as a research method.
