AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN DANCE: HOW TO EVOLVE A COMMUNITY.
Dance is an aesthetic practice because it deals with form, at the same time, however, studying dance requires a commitment not only to aesthetic exploration, but also to the exploration of one's own sensibility.
Obviously one is not more important than the other; rather, one should think of dance as a practice that makes us constantly process both form and content.
The person who dances, in most cases, is an ordinary person, is an amateur. This person when he begins to study first of all enters into a relationship with the aesthetic part: he studies steps, a certain way of behaving on music, etc.
He is then given "codes" and those codes must be corrected because those are the ones that will enable him to move from the aesthetic experience to the experience of feeling.
And the feeling, if you study a dance that comes from specific culture, (as it can be Egyptian dance, Argentine tango or flamenco) is not a subjective feeling.
We need the right codes that, despite stylistic differences, all lead to the same interpretive conclusions.
Practicing dance therefore is also a reflexive exercise: I listen to the body, I listen to the music, I listen to what I feel ... that is: I am in total reception. This process is a potential revelatory one that requires HONESTY and HUMILITY.
Why does it require honesty and humility? Because we reveal all our invisible sides. Dance practice if done well can be an intense confrontation with oneself and one's limitations.
For this reason, in my opinion, a teacher should convey not only the aesthetic part but also an ethical part so that those who practice dance awaken virtues such as: COURAGE, HUMILITY, CURIOSITY, CRITICAL CAPACITY, RESPECT FOR THE LEARNING PROCESS, etc.
The rest: relationships between dancers, relationships between teachers and students, relationships between colleagues, should resonate with these same norms of dance.
Only through Ethics towards one's own learning, towards peers/colleagues, and towards dance itself can we evolve the entire dance community.
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