Cuerpo y otredad en la danza

Abstract

This paper explores three aspects considered crucial to the experience of dance, as seen from the subjectivity field. These are: dance as a collective experience as well as an experience of the collective dimension; dance as an experience of expansion and connection; and dance as an experience of passion. Dance is conceived as a collective experience that, from the spirit of celebration and rituality, calls to dismantle the illusions of individualism and the mechanisms of isolation and disconnection. The paper takes base on the argument that states: dance is supported and encouraged by otherness. The multiple otherness that constitutes the human being, installs an unavoidable tension with the unknown and with difference. Dance is seen as related to that primordial tension. So, if it is true that to tackle dance we must understand the body, in the same way, it could be said that we cannot understand the body without dance.