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How does a dancer activate “scheme corporel” and generate the movement? This study aims to give answers to this question through consideration of the narrative by a modern dancer in her practice, by using the phenomenological instruments developed by Merleau-Ponty: “structure of bodily existence” and “figure/ground” structure.
The movement of dance is not generated as a result of physical operation by the will, but rather by the body intentionally controlling respiration as a subject of the movement. The inhalation individualizes the dancer’s body with its function as movement to push outside from inner body, then dancer’s body is organize as a “lived body” that involves everything around her. The inspiration organizes the system of the body and the situation. The exhalation triggers movement as body techniques. When a dancer exhales, concrete dance movement is generated in context of the system made through inhalation.
Overt movement in dance is generated through activation of the latent “system of body-situation”by intentional inhalation in dancer’s lived body.
