Abstract

BELVEDERE, Carlos. A feeling that you can dance: Reflections on tango dancing from the perspective of material phenomenology. Enfoques [online]. 2015, vol.27, n.1, pp.7-28. ISSN 1669-2721.

Aiming to provide an interpretation of the affective meaning of the dance of tango, I follow the interpretation of Enrique Santos Discépolo and I intend to enhance it from the perspective of the phenomenology of life pursued by Michel Henry. Consequently, I understand that the dance of tango is affective in nature and, therefore, is not mimetic but expressive and liberating. So, I argue: that what’s expressed in any dance is not the organic body but the subjective body; that the source of the sense of rhythm is life; and that the kind of intersubjectivity involved in the dance of tango is non-intentional.

Keywords : Tango; Dance; Discépolo; Feeling; Henry.