 To make room for this expanded account of the philosophy of dance, earlier sections of this entry on the history of dance in Western analytic aesthetics, comparisons with music and theater, on the concepts of representation and expression, and on dance criticism have been supplanted by new sections. Those readers who wish to review the philosophical aesthetics history will find it in the  original version of this entry.  See also the references to Plato, Nietzsche, Scott 2018, and Sparshott 1998 for additional historical sources.