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Beauty is the perfect balance of life, truth, and love. In any true work of art, you will find that these three aspects are balanced. Based on what I talked about in the previous chapter I wonder, are the people who are being shown, by way of examples, ads for toilet paper, cigarettes, and electronics with dance in them oppressed? Are they trapped in an economic and political structure that forces them to look to, pander to, and be manipulated by dance valorizing consumption? Or are they consuming products connected with dance in parasocial contextual environments in search of mystical experiences, for a transfer of the need for mystical self-awareness as a surrogate? I really believe that dance as it is used now and how it is studied in the current cultural constructions perpetuates recolonizing views. As dance is displayed in cyberity, studied in particular circles in academia, and consumed through storefronts, it deprives people of a sense of wholeness, power, agency, and human connection that theodance provides.
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Walter, C.S. (2014). Womanist Ideology in Service of a Mystical Worldview. In: Dance, Consumerism, and Spirituality. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460332_7
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