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10.2478/njd-2013-0010 Other Flesh: Embodiment in Couple and Group Dances Petri Hoppu Other flesh: Embodiment in Couple and Group Dances 2 PAPER Petri Hoppu ABSTRACT TIIVISTELMÄ EARCH In my article, I investigate the possibilities of to body. (Hansen 2003) Second, I shall examine S E In my article, I investigate the possibilities of an embodied Tutkin artikkelissani ruumiillisen näkökulman an embodied perspective in the research of the possibilities of applying a phenomenological R perspective in the research of couple and group dances. I mahdollisuuksia pari- ja ryhmätanssien tutkimuksessa. couple and group dances. I intend to find ways approach to the research of couple and group intend to find ways to cross the boundaries between Etsin tapoja ylittää perinteisen sosiaalisten to cross the boundaries between structural and dances through different examples of previous structural and cultural approaches, which have been tanssien tutkimuksen pääsuuntausten, rakenne- ja cultural approaches, which have been in the research. The last part is based on empirical in the main stream of the research of social dancing. In kulttuurianalyysin välisiä raja-aitoja. Tätä päämäärää mainstream of the research of social dancing. findings and observations including an interview order to reach this purpose, I use the phenomenological silmällä pitäen käytän lihan, reversibiliteetin ja empatian Social dancing is not a clear concept, but here of two Finnish folk dancers on their experiences concepts of flesh, reversibility and empathy to make käsitteitä fenomenologisesta perinteestä lähtien it refers to activities like vernacular or ballroom of a couple dance called hambo. The interview a connection between the individual and community yhdistääkseni yksilön ja yhteisön sekä muodon ja dances, which can be seen as more participatory was made in August 2013, and I was also able as well as form and experience. Importantly, I shall kokemuksen ilmiöt toisiinsa. Tärkeänä osana artikkeliani and less performing in their nature: the focus to watch the dancers’ hambo dancing before elucidate the idea of shared experience, which can be avaan jaetun kokemuksen ilmiötä näistä käsitteistä is on dancing with others and not so much on the interview. I have myself danced folk dances, understood on the basis of these concepts. I wish to lähtien. Haluan osoittaa kuinka sosiaalinen tanssiminen performing to someone. I want to emphasize including hambo, for more than thirty years, and address how couple and group dances are fundamentally pohjimmiltaan perustuu tiettyjen kokemushorisonttien that it is important to investigate both what I have followed the development around hambo based on sharing certain horizons of experience, where jakamiseen: näiden horisonttien sisällä ruumiit and how people dance as well as why, when, dancing in Finland and to some extent also in bodies unfold themselves to other dancers through avautuvat itselleen ja muille tanssijoille ruumiillisuuden where and with whom they dance, but this Sweden. While first describing the structure of the empathy in the context of shared dance forms and ja empatian kautta jaettujen tanssimuotojen ja should take place simultaneously. I see the dance, I shall analyze my own experience and movement patterns. Consequently, the research of social liikerakenteiden kontekstissa. Tästä johtuen sosiaalisten embodiment of dancing as something that knowledge of hambo and compare them to those dances should not concentrate merely on external or tanssien tutkimuksen ei tulisi keskittyä pelkästään unites these approaches, and an embodied of my interviewees using the phenomenological formal behaviour but on dancing as a part of embodied ulkoiseen tai muodolliseen käyttäytymiseen, vaan siinä perspective gives insight to the experience of concepts introduced in the first part of the article. social reality. tanssiminen tulisi nähdä osana ruumiillista sosiaalista dance as well as interpersonal relationships The aim of my combined theoretical and todellisuutta. in dance. Embodiment does not mean empirical investigation is to elucidate the idea concentrating on an individual, but especially of shared experience, which can be understood having social dancing in focus, it can manifest on the basis of the phenomenology of the body. the collectiveness of dance, where the dancing Dancing together means sharing certain horizons bodies extend themselves towards other bodies. of experience, where bodies open themselves The article consists of three parts. First I to other dancers in the context of shared dance shall investigate some basic concepts of the forms and movement patterns. phenomenology of the body, which is the theoretical framework of my study. Body refers Basic concepts here to the material frame of man, viewed as an I intend to study social dancing through the organic entity. Moreover, embodiment is defined concepts of flesh, reversibilityand empathy as the physical form, its realization or expression, from a phenomenological perspective, or the incarnation of an idea or principle attached especially drawing on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s 32 Nordic Journal of Dance - Volume 4(2) 2013 33 Other Flesh: Embodiment in Couple and Group Dances Petri Hoppu Other flesh: Embodiment in Couple and Group Dances 2 PAPER Petri Hoppu ABSTRACT TIIVISTELMÄ EARCH In my article, I investigate the possibilities of to body. (Hansen 2003) Second, I shall examine S E In my article, I investigate the possibilities of an embodied Tutkin artikkelissani ruumiillisen näkökulman an embodied perspective in the research of the possibilities of applying a phenomenological R perspective in the research of couple and group dances. I mahdollisuuksia pari- ja ryhmätanssien tutkimuksessa. couple and group dances. I intend to find ways approach to the research of couple and group intend to find ways to cross the boundaries between Etsin tapoja ylittää perinteisen sosiaalisten to cross the boundaries between structural and dances through different examples of previous structural and cultural approaches, which have been tanssien tutkimuksen pääsuuntausten, rakenne- ja cultural approaches, which have been in the research. The last part is based on empirical in the main stream of the research of social dancing. In kulttuurianalyysin välisiä raja-aitoja. Tätä päämäärää mainstream of the research of social dancing. findings and observations including an interview order to reach this purpose, I use the phenomenological silmällä pitäen käytän lihan, reversibiliteetin ja empatian Social dancing is not a clear concept, but here of two Finnish folk dancers on their experiences concepts of flesh, reversibility and empathy to make käsitteitä fenomenologisesta perinteestä lähtien it refers to activities like vernacular or ballroom of a couple dance called hambo. The interview a connection between the individual and community yhdistääkseni yksilön ja yhteisön sekä muodon ja dances, which can be seen as more participatory was made in August 2013, and I was also able as well as form and experience. Importantly, I shall kokemuksen ilmiöt toisiinsa. Tärkeänä osana artikkeliani and less performing in their nature: the focus to watch the dancers’ hambo dancing before elucidate the idea of shared experience, which can be avaan jaetun kokemuksen ilmiötä näistä käsitteistä is on dancing with others and not so much on the interview. I have myself danced folk dances, understood on the basis of these concepts. I wish to lähtien. Haluan osoittaa kuinka sosiaalinen tanssiminen performing to someone. I want to emphasize including hambo, for more than thirty years, and address how couple and group dances are fundamentally pohjimmiltaan perustuu tiettyjen kokemushorisonttien that it is important to investigate both what I have followed the development around hambo based on sharing certain horizons of experience, where jakamiseen: näiden horisonttien sisällä ruumiit and how people dance as well as why, when, dancing in Finland and to some extent also in bodies unfold themselves to other dancers through avautuvat itselleen ja muille tanssijoille ruumiillisuuden where and with whom they dance, but this Sweden. While first describing the structure of the empathy in the context of shared dance forms and ja empatian kautta jaettujen tanssimuotojen ja should take place simultaneously. I see the dance, I shall analyze my own experience and movement patterns. Consequently, the research of social liikerakenteiden kontekstissa. Tästä johtuen sosiaalisten embodiment of dancing as something that knowledge of hambo and compare them to those dances should not concentrate merely on external or tanssien tutkimuksen ei tulisi keskittyä pelkästään unites these approaches, and an embodied of my interviewees using the phenomenological formal behaviour but on dancing as a part of embodied ulkoiseen tai muodolliseen käyttäytymiseen, vaan siinä perspective gives insight to the experience of concepts introduced in the first part of the article. social reality. tanssiminen tulisi nähdä osana ruumiillista sosiaalista dance as well as interpersonal relationships The aim of my combined theoretical and todellisuutta. in dance. Embodiment does not mean empirical investigation is to elucidate the idea concentrating on an individual, but especially of shared experience, which can be understood having social dancing in focus, it can manifest on the basis of the phenomenology of the body. the collectiveness of dance, where the dancing Dancing together means sharing certain horizons bodies extend themselves towards other bodies.
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