“By Time I mean organic time, such as it exists in the ordering of all the alternating and fundamental functions of life. Each of these is affected by a series of muscular acts which reproduces itself, as if the end or fulfillment of each series brought about the beginning of the next. On this pattern, our limbs can carry out a set of figures that are all interlinked, and whose repetition brings about a kind of exhilaration, ranging from languor to delirium, from a sort of hypnotic abandonment to a sort of frenzy. In this way the état de danse is created.” (Paul Valéry)












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