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    Expressiveness is a necessary, if not sufficient, condition for dance as art

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    • 1.Expressiveness is present in all dance, as held by dance historian Selma Jean Cohen
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    • 2.A property present in all instances of a category is a candidate necessary condition for that category
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    • 1.Formalist accounts of art (e.g., Clive Bell's significant form) hold that aesthetic value resides in structural relations, not expressive content.
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    • 2.Certain dance traditions—such as Balanchine's neoclassical ballet—were explicitly designed to eliminate narrative and emotional expression in favor of pure form.
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    • 3.If a recognized art form can achieve canonical status while deliberately rejecting expressiveness, expressiveness cannot be a necessary condition for dance as art.
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    • 1.Cohen's observation that expressiveness is universally present in dance conflates a contingent empirical generalization with a necessary conceptual condition.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblance (Philosophical Investigations §66-67) entails that art categories need share no single property across all instances.
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    • 3.The inference from 'present in all observed instances' to 'necessary condition' commits the same error Wittgenstein diagnosed in essentialist accounts of games.
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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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