Kinesthetic phantasy,

memory and empathy

in dance
Dr. Gediminas Karoblis
March 5, 2014, Oslo

Phantasy, Memory, Empathy

Rememberi
ng

Phanta
sy

Phantas
ms
Re-

production

Performing
consciousn
ess

Bod
y

Corpore
al Flow

Image
consciousn
ess

Thin
gs
Persisten
ce

Perception

Sensations

Empat
hy

Other
Minds

Pairin
g

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

Bod
y

Corpore
al 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 Path (Betty And Fred Roberts Exhibition
Waltz)
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/betty-and-fredroberts/query/exhibition+waltz

Immanent objects in the Stream of

Consciousness
Rememberi
ng

Phanta
sy

Phantas
ms
Re-

production

Consciousness of Internal Time

The Stream of
Consciousness
Retention/Impression/Pr
otention
[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
consciousn
ess

Thin
gs
Persisten
ce

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?

Kinesthetic phantasy,
memory and empathy
in dance
Dr. Gediminas Karoblis
March 5, 2014, Oslo

Empathy
Empat
hy

Other
Minds

Pairin
g

Comparative table
Body-mind

Dance - music

Identity
(Spinoza)

Dance is music
Music is dance

Interaction
(Descartes)

Diachronic
choreomusical
negotiation
Music
visualisation

Preestablished
harmony
(Leibniz)

Leader Follower
Leader is
follower
Follower is
leader
Improvised
diakinetic
negotiation
Prescribed
choreographic
synchrony

Space structures: forms of

congruence
Translation
In geometry, two figures or
objects are congruent if
Rotation
they have the same shape
and size, or if one has the
Reflection
same shape and size as the
Complementa mirror image of the other.
rity
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

Menuett Wassermusik Hndel

Barockfest Ludwigslust 2010
Goldener Saal (Youtube)

Folk dance - Oravais menuett Pellinge, Borg, Finland

2007 (Youtube)

John Playford (16231686/7)

Kellom Tomlinson (ca 16901753)

Thomas Wilson (1790

1849)

Raul Bravo (Youtube)