通向舞蹈哲学(摘译)

Toward a Philosophy of Dance

舞蹈哲学的提出基于我出生在一个几代人与舞蹈保持密切联系的家庭之中。我对现代舞和当代舞的最新发展保持持续的关注,并参与诸多重要的舞蹈演出,对舞蹈的研究从最初的舞蹈批评到思考舞蹈与其他艺术之间的关系,这些都使舞蹈哲学的提出从一种设想具备了转变为现实的可能性。舞蹈作为一种表演艺术,需要舞者、编舞在表演过程中紧密合作,以舞蹈实践为基础,拓展理解舞蹈的概念和各种论题,是提出舞蹈哲学的现实实践前提。

As a performing art,dance requires the close cooperation of dancers and choreographers in the performance process.Based on dance practice,expanding various concepts and topics of dance understanding is the practical premise of proposing dance philosophy.The aims of a philosophy of dance include developing concepts and theories that position dance in relation to philosophical theories and in relation to other forms of cultural knowledge.Western Philosophers as early as Plato and Aristotle have thought it within their purview to philosophize about the arts in general and about dance in particular.I shall assume that our contemporary philosophical understanding of dance benefits in some considerable degree from this tradition.Who are recent philosophers and theorists who have most influenced my thinking on questions relating to the philosophy of dance?Among these would be Suzanne Langer,Rudolf Arnheim,and Nelson Goodman.One aim of future philosophy of dance is to develop concepts and theories that seek to explain to the art of dancing,and to reflect critically on the concepts and theories on dance previously advanced by philosophers and other thinkers.A second question concerns methodology for the philosophy of dance.To reflect critically on the concepts and theories previously generated by philosophers and other thinkers and questions relating to their applications to current understanding of dance remains a source of insights useful to projecting the future of the philosophy of dance.