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Dancing In Time, Aili W. Bresnahan
Dancing In Time, Aili W. Bresnahan
Aili Bresnahan
This chapter will analyze the experience and, in particular the conscious experience, of dancing in time from the perspective of the trained dancer while performing. The focus is thus on the experience and consciousness of a dancer who is moving her body in time rather than on the experience of a seated audience member or dance appreciator who is watching a dancer move. The question of how temporality is experienced in dance by the appreciator will therefore not be addressed here.
The primary kind of “experience” that will be the focus of my discussion of temporal experience comes from classical …