ABSTRACT
Though this passage summarizes a view that I shall try to defend and articulate, the attempt to apply the concept of metaphor troubles me: It seems a strained extension of an otherwise reasonably clear and useful term. So instead of Beiswanger’s rather mysterious “operation of a metaphor,” I shall suggest that we employ some concepts and principles borrowed from the philosophical theory of action. But I still like his favored expression for what we are all trying to understand better-those special “goings-on” that constitute dance.
