Dancing, a way of existing in the world. A reflection of Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Paul Valéry

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Ailyn Bravo Guzman
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8474-4709
Nelson Rodriguez Arratia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4878-1374

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Bravo Guzman, A., & Rodriguez Arratia, N. (2022). Dancing, a way of existing in the world. A reflection of Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Paul Valéry, 4(8), 89-108. https://doi.org/10.25074/actos.v4i8.2321
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This study proposes a set of concepts and themes to ponder if dance is a way of existing in the world. Through a hermeneutic foundation and select literature (Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Paul Valery) we use phenomenology, ontology, and poetic aesthetic essay to reflect on the relationship between dance and the philosophy of existing. Dance as body, movement, gesture, silence, rhythms, harmonies, and disharmonies searches for a possibility of being in the world. Because dance is condemned by meaning, it reflects on its search, even beyond the conventionalities of language. As such, dance becomes corrective to the modern dynamics of how to understand life as a pursuit of settled paths.

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Dance
Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty
Nancy
Valéry