Abstract

COHEN, Verónica. Yo bailo, ell_s danzan. La descripción fenomenológica y la validación intersubjetiva de la experiencia de la danza. Tópicos [online]. 2022, n.44, e0007. ISSN 1666-485X.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.14409/topicos.2022.44.e0007.

In this article I propose to consider the scope of phenomenological description to clarify the experience of a dancing body. I start from the following hypotheses: 1) the distinction between dancing and dancing makes it possible to clarify the difference between the experience of dance as lived in one's own body, which I call dancing, and the experience of the dance of an other, which I call dancing. 2) Dancers possess a set of practical knowledge about their practice that is put into play pre-reflexively in all dancing. 3) Phenomenology provides a tool to make this knowledge shareable. First, I will develop why I propose to make use of the possibilities given by Spanish (as well as Italian) to distinguish between “bailar” and “danzar”. Secondly, I will address Alfred Schutz’s concept of practical knowledge and its possibilities for understanding the experience of dancers. Thirdly, I will try to clarify how phenomenology can provide a method for verbalizing and making dancers’ practical knowledge shareable through description and will offer examples of descriptions of both my own practice as a dancer and others made by dancers and philosophers in a series of workshops I have conducted called “Describing Dance”.

Keywords : Phenomenology; dance; phenomenological description; practical knowledge.

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