This article documents the author's own embeddedness of experience emerging from her interest with dance, dance as a form of embodied art, a form of expression, a metaphor, and ontology. Dance is a way of “showing and telling” stories through steps and choreography and rhythm and embodiment. It is both a ritual and a reality in different contexts. It is both a situation and a totality. Writing as an agent provocateur in this article, the author attempts to bridge the divide between poetry and prose, arguing for dance to become a natural future avenue for theorizing the art of and in management.
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