Medium tańca w ujęciu Arnolda Berleanta
The Medium of Dance according to Arnold Berleant

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the vision of dance in Arnold Berleant’s environmental aesthetics. The author recalls historical aesthetic concepts emphasizing the importance of the medium for the identity of the particular arts (Gotthold E. Lessing and Clement Greenberg) and identifies issues that arise when the human body is considered as the specific medium of dance. Against this background, she presents Berleant’s approach to dance as performance and argues that the notion of medium, as sometimes used by Berleant, has no ontological basis. This is because Berleant does not describe the world in terms of substance or matter, but in terms of processes and interactions; rather than isolating the arts or separating art from life, he emphasizes the continuity and holistic nature of experience. In his approach, dance is an integral experience in which movement creates the area of performance, unites the dancer and the spectator, body and consciousness, perception and thought. An important context for this theory, which does not separate aesthetic experience from environmental experience, is ecology.

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