[knuckleheads]

I didn't include it in this version of the post, but I do view dancing as a language and I think it's useful to do so. Every dance is a conversation between two people, with cues and signals following back and forth the whole time. I explicitly don't think about this choreographed dancing, I am primarily interested in analyzing improvised social dancing between two people. I've found a lot of stuff that I'll try to write about soon via way of metaphor by just applying the tools of linguistics and semiotics to social dancing. For example, the idea of a phonetic inventory composed of the ways that people move during the various social dances and styles makes a lot of sense. The small ways that people move their bodies in Cuban Salsa are different are different from LA Salsa, but they are more similar to each other than the way that people move when dancing Zouk or Tango. The tilted head in Zouk and the torsion in Tango feel like the rolled R of some Spanish dialects. Once I have something more concrete I'll try and post about it.