Fornemmelse for bevægelse. En beskrivelse af kropsbevidsthed med udgangspunkt i dans som bevægelsesaktivitet

Abstract

Artiklens intention er at beskrive kropsbevidsthed nærmere ved at læne sig op ad fænomenologiske beskrivelser af bevidsthedens mulige dimensioner. Med udgangspunkt i praksis søger artiklen samtidigt at synliggøre, hvordan en fænomenologisk beskrivelse kan have relevans for forståelse af praksis. 

A feeling for moving 

This paper elaborates on body-consciousness from a phenomenological approach. Based in dancers’ practices and experiences the intention is to qualify a central concept in use in sports and health related activities. In the process of incorporating their technique the dancers descriptions indicate that their technique is both incorporated so the technique becomes part of the body-taken-for granted as well as used actively in processes where the dancers externalize their sensing of their bodies when moving. Across the pluralities of the practices and experiences of 13 professional dancers, three phenomenological dimensions of body consciousness are presented: a pre-reflective subject-related (I am my body), an object-directed (I have my body) and a pre-reflective performative dimension. The pre-reflective performative dimension corresponds to a qualified mode – an overall sense of what the body feels like. This is to be understood as a qualified way of turning to the physicality of the body without turning it into a mere intentional object. The dancers exemplify in different ways how the pre-reflective performative dimension can be trained and form an active part in their movement technique.