Dance is “innate”: it is naturally within us
From within the womb (อุทร): the mother’s heartbeat
If music is “time made audible,” then dance is “time made physical”
Rhythm is heard, and then internalized (taken into the body), from where it is expressed as movement
Dance is a kind of “power”
Religious ritual: dance as possession
Sympathetic magic: dance as imitation
Mask, movement, gesture
Communal activity: more people = more “power”