Cultural sustainability—Art and Ubuntu as rationales for dancing
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This article scrutinises the rationales for dancing in the world and how they affect dance sustainability. These rationales are assumptions about societal values of dance that underlie national as well as international cultural policies, so basic that they are rarely challenged. The authors bring a challenge by asking if there is one universally valid and sustainable rationale for dancing, which makes sense to the totality of the global population, given the extreme difference in living conditions. It is written out of a concern that some economically privileged parts of the world’s population are promoting the story of a universally valid rationale for dancing under the term dance art. It draws attention to an alternative rationale for dancing based on the Ubuntu philosophy of the Bantu peoples of Africa. IMPACT STATEMENT: This article asks questions about the status of the art concept in the field of dance. As coined in Europe and exported to the world, is art about to become the only rationale for dancing? The article discusses the concept of Ubuntu as an additional rationale and compares the two concepts in terms of sustainability.