Kinesthetic phantasy,

memory and empathy

in dance

Dr. Gediminas Karoblis March 5, 2014, Oslo

Phantasy, Memory, Empathy

Remembering

_Phantasy

Phantasms

Re-production

Performing

consciousness

Body

Corporeal

Flow

Image

consciousness

Things

Persistence

Empathy

Other

Minds

Pairing

Perception

Sensations

Primacy of perception

Perception

Primacy of perception

• Exteroception/interoception/proprioception

• Five traditional senses

– Visual perception

– Sound perception

– Touch perception

– Taste perception

– Smell perception

• Other/Mixed perceptions (temperature,

equilibrium, kinesthesis)

Centrality of the Body

Body

Corporeal

Flow

The Bodies

• Intersubjective body

– the world of culture – extended bodies/persons

– the surrounding world shared by bodies/persons

– my body seen by others

• Voluntary body („I can“)

– not just kinesthesis (sense of ownership of the body), but also

the will to move (sense of agency)

• Aestesiological body (phenomenal features)

– Roaming rays/sounds/odours

– How depth is perceived in vision? Perspective

– Colour and contour perception; shades

– Seeing/touching profiles (sides)

• Material body

– Biomechanics, biochemistry…

– Physical features

Euclid vs. Riemann geometry

Dance

• Surrounding Dance (atmosphere, bodies

– Vienna Opera Ball 2011 Blue Danube Waltz

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icME9133EvM

• Attended Dance (especially in learning)

– Shall We dance (2004)

– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7V9liYn-IA

• Exhibited dance

– British Pathé (Betty And Fred Roberts – Exhibition Waltz)

– http://www.britishpathe.com/video/betty-and-fred-

roberts/query/exhibition+waltz

Immanent objects in the Stream of

Consciousness

Remembering

_Phantasy

Phantasms

Re-production

Consciousness of Internal Time

The Stream of Consciousness

Retention/Impression/Prote

ntion [Past/Present/Future]

An imanent object (a tune,

a kinetic melody,

A transcendent object (a

dance on stage, a video recording of a dance,…)

)

Retention and Remembering

• Remembering (an act of a subject…)

– of an immanent Object (e.g. a musical tune; a

kinetic melody – a remembered sequence of dance movements)

– reconstruction on the basis of remembering

• Retention

– pre-reflective/habitual re-enactment

– inscription metaphor (the problem of storage base – the body? The DNA? the brain?)

– Relation between the stream of consciousness and the body flow

Persisting Image-Things

Image

consciousness

Things

Persistence

Image-consciousness

• Image-thing

– a physical object (a hard

disc, a screen,

)

• Image-subject (le sujet)

– a topic/a reference

• Image-object

– an image perceived/

contemplated

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen

(Photographers) Arrernte welcoming dance by Aranda people, entrance of the strangers, Alice Springs, Central Australia, 9 May 1901

„Dance“ by Ivar Arosenius

(1878-1909)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjgFH01k0gU

Kinesthetic phantasy,

memory and empathy

in dance

Dr. Gediminas Karoblis March 5, 2014, Oslo

Empathy

Empathy

Other

Minds

Pairing

Comparative table

Body-mind	Dance - music	Leader - Follower
Identity	Dance is music	Leader is follower
(Spinoza)	Music is dance	Follower is leader
Interaction	Diachronic	Improvised
(Descartes)	choreomusical	diakinetic
	negotiation	negotiation
Pre-established	Music visualisation	Prescribed
harmony		choreographic
(Leibniz)		synchrony

Space structures: forms of congruence

• Translation

• Rotation

• Reflection

• Complementarity

In geometry, two figures or objects are congruent if they have the same shape and size, or if one has

the same shape and size as the

mirror image of the other.

More formally, two sets of points are called congruent if, and only if, one can

be transformed into the other by an

isometry, i.e., a combination of translations, rotations and reflections.

Menuett Wassermusik Händel

Barockfest Ludwigslust 2010

Goldener Saal (Youtube)

Folk dance - Oravais menuett Pellinge,

Borgå, Finland 2007 (Youtube)

John Playford (1623–1686/7)

Kellom Tomlinson (ca 1690-1753)

Thomas Wilson (1790—1849)

Raul Bravo (Youtube)