Babies and dance
questions of origin
pp. 545-548
in: Karen Bond (ed), Dance and the quality of life, Berlin, Springer, 2019Abstract
Part scholarly narrative and part poetics, this short chapter begins with a contextual introduction to Karen Bond's long-standing interest in university dance students' perceptions of "baby dance." Then, based on questions prompted by this introduction and from student papers on the subject of babies and dance (1985–2011), dancer, poet, and novelist Kirsten Kaschock offers a layered, poetic reflection that leaves the question of dance's origin open while acknowledging the value of infants' pre-discursive understanding to questions of dance and the quality of life.
