The knowing body-in-action in performing arts: Embodiment, experiential transformation, and intersubjectivity

The chapter focuses on the role of the body-in-(inter)action in learning and doing art: starting from the case of dance it considers the practices involved in the processes of learning, improvising, rehearsing, and enacting onstage. Comparison with other performative arts as well as general conclusions are then drawn, concerning especially practices of embodiment and experiential transformation. Considering the (inter)corporeal dimension of artistic performance shades light on the raison d'être of various artistic practices, contributes enlightening the entanglement between propositional knowledge and practical know-how, and illuminates the role of shared know-ledge/how in the collective production and fruition of performative artworks.