Dancing, Music, Creativity

The medium of Dancing is not one's 'body', which is an abstraction, but one's Motility.  Thus, Dancing, like Music, as has been previously discussed, involves not only the organization of its medium, but the very production of it as well.  Now, since any artistic process involves physiological coordination, e. g.the guitarist's hand-to-hand-to-ears, the painter's brush hand-to-eyes, every Art, even Music, can be conceived as a special case of Dancing.  However, Nietzsche seems ambivalent about which of Music and Dancing is prior--in section 2 of Birth of Tragedy, on the one hand, he characterizes Dancing as "incited" by dithyrambic Music, while, on the other, it is from Dancing that "other symbolic powers suddenly press forward, particularly those of music."  Still, the uncertainty reinforces the thesis that Dancing can be as self-sufficiently creative as Music, as has been previously discussed, can be.