…the ‘true’ dancer must never appear to know the dance she dances. Her knowledge (which is technical, immense,and painfully acquired) is traversed, as null, by the pure emergence of her gesture. “The dancer does not dance” means that what one sees is at no point the realization of pre-existing knowledge, even though knowledge is, through and through, its matter or support. The dancer is the miraculous forgetting of her own knowledge of dance. She does not execute the dance, but is this restrained intensity that manifests the gesture’s indecision.
    [Alain Badiou, The Handbook of Inaesthetics]