THE METHOD AND THE METAPHOR
THE METHOD AND THE METAPHOR Dialectics Between Structure and Informality in Cuban Casino Introduction: The Ontology of Movement Dance, in its popular genesis, is often perceived as a purely emotional and biological phenomenon, a kind of “blood inheritance” that dispenses with academia. However, the emergence of Yoel Marrero’s Method of the Casino Square (MCC) marks an ontological turning point: the transition from dance as custom to dance as technical discipline. This essay proposes to analyze the legitimacy of the “well-formed dance” in contrast to the narrative of “flavor,” as well as the ethical crisis implied by methodological piracy in the digital environment. I. Grammar versus Idiolect: The “Well-Formed” Dance The distinction between empirical dance and well-formed dance is not a hierarchy of pleasure, but one of functional precision. Using a linguistic analogy, the street dancer operates through an idiolect: a set of habits and stylistic expressions that, although communic...