Place or space?

Watching a great performer dance gives one the impression that they could do anything, if only they chose.

But if you can go anywhere, how do you make us care that you go somewhere?

The philosopher Susanne Langer said this: ‘The primary illusion of dance is a virtual realm of Power – not actual, physically exerted power, but appearances of influence and agency created by virtual gesture.’ Susanne K. Langer, ‘Feeling and Form’, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd, London, 1953, p. 175.