Creativity, Self-Expression, and Dance

The traditional view of creativity is that it is an inexplicable form of divine inspiration which somehow can take mortals by the hand, so to speak, and mysteriously and miraculously get them to produce works of genius in a variety of forms but especially, it would seem, in the realms of painting, music, and literature.' More recently, however, creativity has come to be a general term of approval for those acts that lead to the solution of problems or the ability at least to think in an open, divergent, and nonconformist way.2 Conceptually, the meaning of creativity is characterized by reference to at least four conditions. These will be referred to as the novelty condition; the relevance condition; the conflict condition; and the valuation condition.