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Unfolding Peace: Many Peaces, Dances, and the Search for Balance

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The second chapter investigates the relations of peace and dance, and elements that contribute or hinder the unfoldment of peaces through movement. The Many Peaces theory (Dietrich 2012) provides the frame to approach dance through peace theory lenses. Energetic, moral, modern, postmodern, and transrational interpretations of peace are the parameters to explore different dance expressions, their relation to peace and strategies for transformation. Friedrich Nietzsche’s approach to the interplay of Dionysian and Apollonian energies offers the thread of this analysis. The dances discussed are energetically oriented dances like the toré, Sufi whirling, carnival, ballet-des-cours, romantic and modern ballets, and Isadora Duncan’s dancing. Furthermore, this chapter discusses a transrational approach to dance and its potential for peaces and suggests twisting harmful tendencies with balance and awareness.

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    Norbert Koppensteiner, in his translation of Interpretations of Peace in History and Culture, approximates Mitwelt to an understanding of the common aspect of a shared world.

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Ditzel Facci, P. (2020). Unfolding Peace: Many Peaces, Dances, and the Search for Balance. In: Dancing Conflicts, Unfolding Peaces. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48838-3_2

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