The 'journey' metaphor has been popular far at least a decade, to my knowledge, and it's a good one for all sorts of reasons.  Now I am starting to detect increasingly frequent mentions of 'dance' in stuff I read.

For example...

• Trinitarian perichoresis as divine dance (Paul Fiddes)
• Evangelism as dance (Brian McLaren)
• Church as a (barn) dance (Anthony Reddie, admittedly only as a one off, but even so...)

What I wonder is, how does this complement and how does it critique the 'journey' metaphor?  What cultural understandings of dance shape its use as a metaphor?  And how on earth can you use it with those churches/congregations who perceive dance as demonic?!  Answers on a post card...