The Dance-Language Conflict | Conclusion

Treating dance as language implies exclusivity. It implies that only members of the dance community, or people who are otherwise educated, able, or inherently gifted, can create and understand valuable art. Dance artists look down on those who don't understand dance, or won't try to understand dance, even though they are essentially telling them they will not be able to. 

Dance is communicative, yes. But it heavily relies on the audience's own experience, and can hardly ever communicate something specific and direct from one person to another. Dance, if it were truly used as language, would be much less exciting, much less interpretive, much less personal. Dance has the opportunity to overcome the failures of language, and step into new realms of communication between people. Language-less communication is the art of dance.