Abstract
In my paper, I will discuss my understanding of body knowledge as it arises from more than 15 years in the dance field; specifically, I will analyze my experience as a dance improviser and a dance facilitator in community context. Following Ben Spatz’s definition of body as a “wide territory” (2015, 11), I will argue that body knowledge is a reliable, yet different, form of knowledge. I will then consider improvisation as a tool for philosophical inquiry. In doing so, I will address questions such as: How is the body a methodological tool for understanding what we can learn from the body itself? As a dancer, a scholar, and an educator: How can I move from the dance to the writing, and from the writing to the dance?
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Education, Dance, Phenomenology
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