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By Nicholas V. (IN.V.ENTR)Published 4 years ago 4 min read
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Art Healthy: Creativity

Fine Arts for Higher Education

Creativity in my daily life is important. I discover infinite possibilities to understanding the data I perceive and better utilize the information in more ways then one. This is important to me because without creativity, I wouldn’t know to question the data. I would be comfortable and confident in what I learned from perception alone. I believe art, music, and dance should be among the required subjects to take in higher education. As realized at a young age that there is so much more to me then systematic operation, clockwork, and flawless computing. I’ve used my creativity in many ways in all these situations and have had results that held me at a confident acceptance. Where exactly is the existence of flawlessness if not in the thick of concrete decision making? My choices are lead by naïve intentions that pursue the greatest happiness, pleasure, or ultimate gain as the only acceptable route. Therefore, choices are a gamble and unexplored and all too much are they held accountable for their actions. Can’t imagine that without creativity. Our failures and “bad” decisions alone would be rock solid evidence.

Creative arts like visual arts, music, and dance are healthy for humans to indulge in an entire lifetime for all performed tasks. I believe being creative is fostering a healthier mind. According to Art Therapist of The University of Rochester Medical Center “ the act of creating art influences brain wave patterns and the substances released by the brain helps people express hidden emotions; reduce stress, fear, and anxiety; and provides a sense of freedom.” Establishing arts and creativity in out education is fundamental to expression and concentration in the fields of knowledge and understanding. These also contribute to an over health and even specific disease combatant such as cancer. Therapist have conducted art therapy with patience to discover promising results of improvement within the patient. The University of Rochester Medical Center states, “Creating art, viewing it, and talking about it provides a way for people to cope with emotional conflicts and increase self-awareness. It also allows them to express unspoken and often unconscious concerns about their illness”.

The art of dance is not just a visual performance for the minds entertainment. Dance is expression of thought in the form of body movement. Therefore, expressing thought, like in writing, dance is writing a story with movement, by my observation. To me, dance is an active visual reading; it’s a form of literature. According to Bresnahan, “Dance is underrepresented in philosophical aesthetics. This means that, as a whole, the philosophical aesthetics of dance lacks the full range of views that one can find in more developed field of aesthetics such as literature or music”. The reason these arts are not held to a high regard for higher education is the lack of understanding in literature and knowledge they have. I see this as being a huge dilemma for arts that are broadly ranges and classified as an entertainment. Though entertaining they are, the expression still originates from the collective perceptions of the human mind and lack there of in resulting a creative approach to understanding and expressing otherwise. Bresnahan explained, “Hegel’s idea was that the fine arts were those that realized the spirit of the people by bringing truth or the “idea” to light in material form”. Bresnahan is building an outlook of dance from a philosophical view from the perceptions of Francis Sparshott in “The Missing Art of Dance” (1983) and G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy (1835). Bresnahan explains further on Hegel’s philosophy:

“The idea was that the “fine” arts are those that contribute to knowledge and intellectual thought, with the implication that supposedly non-symbolic and non-verbal arts like dance were pre-lingual and pre-civilization, belonging only to the world of primitive gesture or to the low and the corporeal rather than to the elevated and cultural.” (001)

Humans are naturally intend with the subject we call “fine arts”. Music can be heard in the rhythm of a heart beating. Dance can be any body movement expressed by body movement with, or without, that musical rhythm to move to. According to Marsh, “A baby in the womb lives to the rhythm of its mother’s heartbeat. It hears and feels the sound and emotion of its mother’s voice. When a baby is born, it creates its first sound with its first instrument – the voice.” This shouldn’t be too difficult to understand. Sounds and vibrations are natural part of our existence. It’s safe to say the human mind has developed in some way, shape or form, from the the interpretation of these experiences. The creative part is dominate in obtaining the understanding of those experiences without previous knowledge or research that concludes in a scientific fact. What’s the difference between being creative and/or having a knowledge of about my experiences? This paper I am writing is done with both creativity and knowledge. I believe, and perceive, that my actions and interpretations of my everyday experiences are dependent on scientific knowledge and creativity alike. The fine arts should be considered a necessity for higher education, for the the development of problem solving, exploration, and expression in our attempts at conducting research and performing the method we know as a collection of valid data.

Works Cited

Bresnahan, Aili, “The Philosophy of Dance”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/dance/

Marsh, Lin “Why Song and Dance are Essential for Children’s Development” (25 June 2015), https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/why-song-and-dance-are-essential-childrens-development

University of Rochester Medical Center (2019) “Art Therapy, Dance Therapy, Music Therapy, and Imagery”, https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=85&ContentID=P07338

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