The Phenomenology of the Body Schema and Contemporary Dance Practice: The Example of “Gaga”

Foultier, Anna Petronella

doi:10.1080/20539320.2022.2052618

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“…An important direction is the development of the body schema through different sports and physical activities. Among these we list swimming [ 18 ], dance [ 19 ], yoga [ 20 ], and chess [ 21 ]. Another direction is that of different types of disabilities or deficiencies.…”

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Relationship between Body Schema and Scholar Maturity: A Study from the National College of Banat in Timisoara, Romania

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the role and importance of specific physical exercises in the development of the body schema in preparatory class pupils and its effect on the development of maturity. Methods: The experiment took place over a period of 10 weeks in which two physical education lessons per week were scheduled; the lessons include specific themes for the development of the body schema and contain exercises to arouse pupils’ interest in sports and physical activities from this age. A number of 150 pupils aged between 5 years and 6 months and 7 years and 6 months participated in the experiment. The pupils were divided into two groups: the experimental group (76 pupils, 32 boys and 34 girls) and the control group (74 pupils, 31 boys and 33 girls). Next, the “Draw-a-Person” Test was applied at the beginning and end of the experiment. Results: The analysis of the results highlights the fact that after completing the intervention plan there is a significant improvement in the results of the experimental group on the Maturity Scale and implicitly on the three development scales: Head Scale, Body Schema Scale, and Clothing Scale. Among the three scales, the Body Schema Scale has the greatest influence on the Maturity Scale (r = 0.841). Conclusions: The preparatory class produces a connection between the kindergarten and the school; furthermore, the physical education lessons with an emphasis on the development of the body scheme contribute to the development of maturity and school preparation of the pupils.

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Letting the body find its way: skills, expertise, and Bodily Reflection

Foultier

2022

Phenom Cogn Sci

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What forms of consciousness can the subject have of her body in action? This is a recurrent issue in contemporary research on skilled movement and expertise, and according to a widespread view, the body makes itself inconspicuous in performance in favour of the object or goal that the activity is directed to. However, this attitude to consciousness in bodily performance seems unsatisfying for an understanding of skilled action, and the work of several researchers can be seen as responding to this view: Montero, Legrand, Ravn and others in the philosophy of expertise and of dance have developed various notions of consciousness and cognition to account for the mindful processes at play in performance.Two related questions can be distinguished here: (1) Is there an inherent conflict between skilled action and at least more than marginal awareness of that action, or is it possible – and even desirable – to reflect on our own performance without considerably impeding on it? (2) What forms of consciousness pertaining to the body in action must we distinguish in order to answer the first question?This paper gives an overview of this discussion, focusing on the second issue, although the first will come into play in so far as it is linked with the latter question. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s analyses of bodily reflection and on dancers’ descriptions, I show that there is, in phenomenological terms, a bodily level of reflection: a fully conscious and exploratory activity that is led by the skilled body, and that is explicitly aimed at by many performers.

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Body, space, and time in virtual reality leisure experience: a phenomenological inquiry

Zhou,

Hu,

Wang

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Leisure Studies

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The Phenomenology of the Body Schema and Contemporary Dance Practice: The Example of “Gaga”

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Relationship between Body Schema and Scholar Maturity: A Study from the National College of Banat in Timisoara, Romania

Relationship between Body Schema and Scholar Maturity: A Study from the National College of Banat in Timisoara, Romania

Letting the body find its way: skills, expertise, and Bodily Reflection

Body, space, and time in virtual reality leisure experience: a phenomenological inquiry

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