Feeling feelings, the work of Russell Dumas through Whitehead's Process and Reality

The thing about dancing is that all there is is the dancing. There are myriad terms which circle the activity, ways in, through language, that aim to capture what happens. But the capturing itself has its own style, its own technologies of thought, its own manner of moving, along with the dance. So each duet between philosophy and dance differs. And while each duet is a field of enabling moments — possible ways of engaging dance —these engagements between philosophy and dance are also staged. In the enterprise of language, we are shaped by the particular conceptual field. Dance appears through these concepts. The concepts dance the dance, animating it conceptually. That animation may seem to ‘fit the facts’ but it is also generative.