dance as an effort to understand

Borrowed from Yong Wei's facebook:

thought while sitting by the pond today: the study of dance, perhaps is not just to perfect the craft of beautiful movements and/or developed aesthetic voice, but is also a science that is an effort to understand, or to understand better, the natural and social world and how it works, with observable physical experiences through the body as the basis of that understanding. It is done through embodying the natural phenomena, and/or through experimentation within a creative process and research. Perhaps...