Thinking Motion in Dance
On A-Human Mimetic Potential
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21248/thewis.6.2017.131Abstract
Following on from this confrontation with the question of how it might be possible to actually grasp the dancing body’s specific mode of thinking, the search for an understanding that might add another quality to analyses like this could lead beyond the term of proprioception that Caspersen refers to. Maybe this search could depart from another term that is more likely to be familiar from the context of theater than specific to the field of dance: mimesis.
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