Favoring the other. Body and philosophy in Contact Improvisation

Abstract

This text practices a fueling question: how to take the reflections emerged during the contact amongst dancing bodies to a scientific writing about formation processes? In other words, how to produce a strict knowledge with the effects of sensations that emerge from the bodies dancing Contact Improvisation? How to write about a collective process of teaching education with aesthetic and conceptual experiences that investigate its own expression forms? And in a broader sense, how to produce knowledge on education that experiments itself corporally and collectively? It is indeed a risky and venturing business, but it seems the time has come to practice academically this relation that the fields of current knowledge have defined as certain: the fact that body and mind, sensitive and intelligible, subject and object, devote to each other and simultaneously. It is intended that these relations practice themselves in the forms of knowledge that are configured in this essay. The philosophical dimension that activates this dance and the body dimension that lives in this philosophy of difference are intended to be welcomed.