Kinesthetic Communication in Dance.

issues involved in kinesthetic communication and to suggest directions in which we might look in order to understand how dance communicates. The word "kinesthesis" was coined to refer to the sense of movement (kinein = to move, aesthesis = perception) of one's own body, which is derived from movement information provided by receptors in joints, muscles, tendons and skin. In this context it means "sense of one's own movement," and the receptors which provide the information can be indicated. The orthodox five sense of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting also relate to particular kinds of receptors. They give us information about objects and events in the world, and for this reason Sherrington (1906) called them "exteroceptors" to indicate that they were the source of external information. Sherrington used "interoceptors" to refer to receptors which were solely concerned with the internal state of the organism, such as pain and pressure receptors in the