Dance is lived and traversed as a living present; it has, in appearance, no need for a symbolizing system that would be incompatible with experiential givens and would reduce the sensible fabric of movement to an all-resuming graph…
Even in the great school dance traditions, which operate on a fixed vocabulary, the miracle of dance is to transcend the gestural glossary through the poetic emanation of an event, unique in colour and intensity.
Laurence Louppe, Traces of dance