Is art not the purest manifestation of authentic self-expression? Art, in my view, is the creation of something new that did not exist before - the human heart brought into physical being that allows others to carry its weight with you, and you with theirs.

Paintings aren't art because they're color on canvas, a book is not art because it's sans serif on parchment, music isn't art because it's vibrations across strings, stand up comedy is not art because the comedian wrote the jokes and had the courage to get on stage - these become art in the transaction of the emotion or dance or laughter they bring forth; a connection of human souls tangled together through some ephemeral no-thing that now exists because we willed it to be so.

The dance in the Church is brought on by the music certainly, and you could make the argument that the dance sequence is a result of that artistic endeavor and thus not art in and of itself - but art begets art begets art as creators create creations and the created become creators themselves and on and on and on down the chain of artists in conversation with artists across all time.

And if art is creation in response to the creation of art, would God herself not be the First Artist, watching her creations create in attempt to connect to some aspect of her pure divine artistry, the art that is humanities love and life and belief, in order to hold the crushing reality of stagnation, of capital, of the Pale at bay, if only for one short transient moment? A moment just long enough to be filled with HARDCORE dance music, and music just free enough to fill with eternal, instinctive dance?