Dance, no Dance

When a dance is overly mimetic it becomes a pantomime; when it goes too far in athleticism it becomes a gymnastic show. They are fine for what they are but I expect a dance to be what it is, that is, mimetic and/or athletic to a degree but significant beyond the surface and, above all, graceful — individually or collectively. Movement may be slow, as in the Japanese Noh, and it is still dance; but beyond a certain limit, absence of movement turns the dance into a tableau-vivant or an installation.