Dancers are spatial creatures. With very rare exceptions, they occupy as much of it as possible and if they choose not to move it is invariably a decision that is about being static within a given space. So not moving does not mean they are not using the space.
Space serves as a boundary or a definition but is, in the hands of the most creative, not a limitation. I know a choreographer/dancer who broke her leg, a very bad break, and was confined by a cast and unable to move without crutches. Her space had been severely limited and so she embraced it and created a piece that was all built around, on, and in a chair. Space as a definition, not a limitation.
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