The dancers need the dance to be fully themselves. Creative individuals need society to come into possession of their own potential. None of us is truly ourself in isolation. At the same time, the dance needs its dancers. The community needs its creative individuals.
Individuals are the conduit through which the emergent properties of the community get expressed.
Universities have to create safe environments for risk-taking behaviour which promotes the creativity of individuals, communities, and society. We have to encourage dancers to take the floor. But as the partners in the dance relax and allow new realities and relationships to evolve, fresh possibilities emerge. Zohar Danah and Ian Marshall, The Quantum Society , Flamingo Press, London, 1993.