Description
The Philosopher and The Dancer is an act of spontaneous, solo, movement improvisation; offered here as one particularized instantiation and re-enactment of the corporeal situatedness and interrelatedness of self and world that characterizes Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy.The improvisation can take place in any indoor studio/space, ideally with a suitable floor - the ostensibly static nature of an indoor space/place serving as a clear context for the embodiment and modeling of some of Merleau-Ponty’s core philosophical constructs. As an improvised event, The Philosopher and The Dancer can last for a few minutes (6 or 10) or for longer (15 or 20) and is unaccompanied by music; it is the embodied weave of dancer and immediate environment - a cultivated sensitivity and practised responsiveness to one’s spatial and temporal inherence in a particular world - that is foregrounded. This demonstration/performance is offered as a place in which an alternative articulation of Merleau-Ponty’s thought will be evident.
| Period | 3 Oct 2015 |
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| Event title | 40th Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle and Juried Art Exhibition: The Twenty-First Century Body: Thinking Merleau-Ponty In and Out of Time |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 40 |
| Location | Worcester, United States, MassachusettsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |