Linguistics and Ballet?

[E. Wayles Browne]

Prof. Svenka Savic of the University of Novi Sad (Vojvodina, Serbia),
who is both a psycholinguist and a ballet critic and dancer,
has been working on a paper with the self-explanatory title
     Lingvistika i balet.
Language and dance are both semiotic systems.
Just as there are rules for combining words into larger groupings,
there are rules for combining gestures into larger wholes, which
distinguish what is possible and what is not possible.
She wonders if linguistic colleagues (or ballet colleagues) have
drawn similar comparisons. What literature can readers recommend?
Please write directly to me at ewb2 at cornell.edu

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.
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e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu