THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF dance MAXINE SHPublished by ‘The University of Wisconsin Press ‘Madison and Milwaukee PO. Box 1379 Madison, Wisconsin 53701 Copyright © 1966 by the Regents of the University of Wisconsin Printed in the United States of America by Kingsport Press, Inc,, Kingsport, Tennessee Library of Congress + Catalog Card Number 65-24190 TO MILTON M. LOESERMAN WHO WAS FOR OTHERS AS HE WAS FOR HIMSELFd 1 FOREWORD Dance is movement, and its opposite, in time and space. It is this continuously changing fact that gives its structure—its permanence in fiuidity—and provides a fascination that impels 4 good many people to be concerned with it: choreographers, performers, teachers, and spectators. ts its own necessity, not so much as a representation of the moving world, rather asa past of it, with inherent springs. Mrs, Sheets has chosen here to involve herself with just that aspect of the art that makes up its life and primal force—its ‘moving phenomena—and that, in turn allows us to have a look into the constant energies. na time when many of the college and university dance de- pactments over the United States are dealing with the possibility of including a more direct professional training, Mrs. Sheets’