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The Problem of “Feeling” in Dance Practice: Fragmentation and Unity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Martin Leach
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Abstract

This paper will attempt a reformulation of the concept of “feeling” in dance from a psychophysical perspective using ideas derived from F. M. Alexander and post-Heideggerian philosophy. It will seek to rearticulate the nature of human being as one that is vibrantly suspended between conscious subjectivity and a world illuminated by that consciousness. Viewed in this way, current prevailing ideas about “feeling” can be set aside and the practices of creation and spectatorship in dance can be reunited in a new way through a fresh understanding that takes into account the unreliability of “feeling” and its physiological and subjective reality.

Type
Panel: Toward a Philosophical Approach to Dance Practice and Pedagogy
Information
Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 41 , supplement S1: Global Perspectives On Dance Pedagogy: Research And Practice , 2009 , pp. 130 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2009

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