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    An act of running can, under the right circumstances, cou... — Carmelics
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    An act of running can, under the right circumstances, count as dance

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    • 1.One bodily action can, under the right circumstances, be sortally generated into another kind of action (from action theory)
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    • 2.Running is a bodily action
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    • 3.Dance requires expressive action, and running can be expressive under the right circumstances
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    • 1.Dance is constituted not merely by expressive bodily movement but by movement organized within a practice defined by aesthetic conventions and intentional framing.
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    • 2.Running, even when expressive, lacks the intentional uptake within such a practice unless explicitly re-contextualized by institutional or choreographic framing.
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    • 3.Sortal generation from action theory (Goldman) requires a higher-order generating condition that is practice-internal, not merely circumstantial expressiveness.
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    • 1.Goodman's account of art requires that a work be governed by a symbol system with repleteness and syntactic density; running qua running operates in a different symbol system than dance.
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    • 2.Admitting that any action can become dance under 'right circumstances' collapses the distinction between dance and theatre, sport, or ritual without principled criteria for demarcation.
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    Another traditional way, besides those mentioned in Section 1, that dance philosophers in analytic aesthetics have considered the question “what is dance?” is to characterize dance as a particularly expressive form of art, or one that involves “action” in a particular way. Dance historian Selma Jean Cohen (1962) has held that expressiveness is present in all dance, for example, causing Monroe C. Beardsley (1982) to posit that expressiveness might be a necessary if not sufficient condition for
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