The embodied experience of a dance practice
What is it about?
The choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni developed a spinning practice in the context of a dance piece called 'Don’t be frightened of turning the page'. In this paper, I begin by framing and interpreting my embodied experience of this same technique as it was taught by Alessandro Sciarroni in a workshop held in Portugal in 2019. I conclude this interpretation by evoking the potential of the spinning practice to bring forth a renewed sense of the Earth in us, thus strengthening the will to change our behaviour towards the environment.
Why is it important?
In this paper, I refer to Martin Heidegger's dichotomy of the Earth versus the World as a way to frame theoretically and articulate our bodily experiences, thus offering a new (and expanded) perspective through which one may look at dance and other body art practices.