Kimerer LaMothe

Kimerer L. LaMothe is a dancer, philosopher, and scholar of religion. A pioneer in the field of religion and dance, Kimerer is the author of numerous articles and six books, including Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming (2015) , as well as Nietzsche’s Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values(2006). Kimerer earned a PhD in Religion from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and taught at Brown and Harvard Universities.

Thoughts

For Nietzsche, life’s ultimate question was: ‘Does it dance?’

Friedrich Nietzsche’s body of work is notoriously difficult to navigate. He wrote in multiple styles, including essays, aphorisms, poems, and fiction. He introduced idiosyncratic concepts

Thoughts

The dancing species: how moving together in time helps make us human

Dancing is a human universal, but why? It is present in human cultures old and new; central to those with the longest continuous histories.