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| | International Encyclopedia of Dance |
 | | The dearth of scholarly research on dance has been blamed on many factors: the recent development of the art form itself, a lack of substantial body of written criticism, and the separation of philosophical aesthetics from analytical research. |
 | | Scholarship is also difficult because of the complexities of dance, especially its non-verbal, ephemeral, and multimedia character, encompassing human movement, music, scenery, lighting, costumes, acting, and even, in some experimental works, poetry-reading and "everyday" movement. |
 | | It is symptomatic of the continuing struggle of dance scholarship that the Encyclopedia was not actually published until 1998, some twenty years after the initial planning, having been considered and rejected by several publishers. |
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