Time-Space

By: Carly Le Blanc
11/20/07

As I began looking for articles for my research paper I found an article in a Dance Research Journal by Joann Kealiinohomoku. She discusses this concept of time-space. The reality of life is based on two fundamental elements of space and time. She cites Stephen Hawking as not even separating the two, but coining the term space-time. Space-time is dynamic and its motion is purposeful. All life is cyclic, the moon's phases, the ocean's tides, and the four seasons allow for the production and destruction of life. She also discusses the imagery of a Mobius Strip. It only has one side and one boundary component, many resemble to infinity symbol. The author claims that life is constantly spiraling down toward oblivion but is stop but a series of counter events. The world continues down the strip until the twist, and it climbs back up, just to be twisted again and plunge into chaos. She states that the turning and twisting is caused by extraordinary human activity. She states that dancers and singers of a culture integrate and stimulate their society. The dancers and signers "creatively or re-creatively embody symbols that magnify their ethos and affect their energy." The artists are interacting with their world and affecting its course. Because of this power, the space in which they perform becomes a holy space and the time in which they are in motion is a sacred time period. By acting on their surroundings they are forming the sacred in that space.