Susan Sontag’s suggested viewpoints relating to classical and modern in
contemporary art review history has been unable to be well exploited at the levels of
visual art theories and body aesthetics. This article can fill in the gap of Susan Sontag’s art
reviews. This article identifies, in the first place, she analyzed philosophical differences
between great pioneers’ conception of American contemporary dance and American dancer
Lucinda Childs’s dance aesthetics of “art of refuse”.What ’s more important,she discussed
problem of relationship between dancer and dance. Finally, she indicated the charm of dance
art lies in the nature as a trans-boundary art which opens boundary. The inadequacy of her
argument lies in her failure in advancing essay criticism on dance art to the subject
philosophy height of visual art and body aesthetics. This article carries out research on this
problem on the level of theoretical contribution and criticism from three artistic semiotic
subjects of Susanne Langer’s dance aesthetic semiotics, Merleau Ponty’s body consciousness
semiotics and Eero Tarasti’s performance art semiotics.