Language is communication through symbols that are arranged according to systematic rules. By this definition alone, dance is a language. However, all types of language are used for both “inter” and “intra” communication. Members of the same species use language not only to pass along information, but to think in solitude. If a dancer is able to think in Dance as we think in English, as the French think in French, and as the deaf think in Sign, then that dancer has turned Dance into his language. The classification of dance therefore depends on each individual dancer; if the art is intrinsic enough to him, it is his language. If not, then it is merely a form of communication, such as the chemical communication between deer or the electrical communication between eels.
