SAY SO

Stefan & Zeudi: Adult Ballroom, 148th -- just missed the cut for Round 3.

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from my notebook

Joan Acocella writing about the Classical stanceof André Levinson [Intro. to Levinson's Paris Writing's on Dance, p10] :
What he sought was not pure abstraction -- it is questionable whether such a thing exists in dance -- but a measure of idealization, a cutting away of detail in the service of a purer, stronger symbol".

Levinson on dance's autonomy [p.32]:
The ballet dance ...is not determined by any external motive. It includes its own law, its own logic, and any departure from that logic, pertaining to a body, moving in space with the aim of creating beauty by organized dynamism is perfectly apparent to the spectator.

Levinson on dance as motion [p.42] [Levinson also wrote film criticism. & see Deleuze {Bergson} on movement in film]:
The dance is motion is a harmony of living forms, masses and outlines, whose relations to each other are continually varied by that "motion which causes the lines to flow". We are exceedingly ill-equipped for the study of things in flux - even for considering motion itself as such. We cling to things at rest as though they were landmarks in a turbulent chaos.

Levinson on dance as independent of other arts [43]:
The intrinsic beauty of a dance-step, its innate quality, its esthetic reason for being...never is it shown to lie in the contours of the movement itself, in the constructive value of an attitude or in the thrilling dynamics of the leap in the air. All the other arts are foisted on the dance as instructors.