Dance

If music is for the ears, and paintings are for the eyes, what is for the body? Dance.

Dancing is like making music in that it is done in the moment with the body and may not be recorded. It is live/It is alive; a living expression of passionate appreciation for music and emotion, and I guess because it is “appreciation” it is registered as “artistic.” I put “artistic” in quotes because we don’t know what that word means unless we attach some kind of thrilling excitement and appreciation to it. In the case of making music or dance, the experience of rapture happening in the body during is itself more inspiration to keep on expressing. The appreciation fuels the continuation of the manifestation of more music, or more dance, which is art. “Art for art’s sake.”

Moreover, the viewer of the musician or dancer receives, thanks to empathy and mirror neurons, a similar state of excitement and appreciation.

Moreover, dance and music tell stories! It’s not just expressing an emotion but also a story, which grips the audience and invokes emotional responses. Emotion emoting, mind transmitting, visual poetry, audible panting, moving sculpture, fleeting music, take a picture? It will last longer.