ODE TO POETIC DANCE

After poetry, which is
the art of all the arts,
dance is in absolute terms
the most complete form of
art, as in herself she needs
poetry to be herself, while
she openly fuses music
through full human body
stylized motions with any
possible kind of soul state
and poetical expression.

This is the subtle sensual
play of physical with
metaphysical beauty
which is nourished by
any sort of positive or
negative emotions and
fantasies.

The athletic, visual and musical
aesthetics offered to us by all
dance performances necessarily
must be supported by strong
passions in a magic creative
and narrative design, given
by choreography to ballet
and will be of any type and
style, but reduced to shy
gymnastics if deprived of
poetical aim and feelings.

In some sense poetry is the
mother of dance or, if you prefer,
her elder sister and, as a ballet
does not need words, but hardly
music for becoming true, it is
undisputable that even poetry
can be generated without need
of words.

Poetry is to be found in the
spirit of both performing and
visual arts and not merely
in the special language used
to communicate with their
respective audience by the
various disciplines (from music
and literature to theatre and
cinema, from painting and
installing to sculpture and
architecture).

So in any event dance, as does
involve all the kinds of mental
and corporal expressions, will
be truly the most akin form of
art to poetry, thanks also to
music. 

Marco Maria Eller Vainicher
(6-30 novembre 2006)