Kinesthetic phantasy,

memory and empathy

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

Phantasy, Memory, Empathy

Image
consciousness

Empathy

Phantasms Body

Things

Other
Minds

Corporeal
Flow

Persistence

Pairing

Remembering

Phantasy

Re-production

Performing
consciousness

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 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
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
Identity
(Spinoza)

Dance - music
Dance is music
Music is dance

Leader - Follower
Leader is follower
Follower is leader

Interaction
(Descartes)

Diachronic
choreomusical
negotiation

Improvised
diakinetic
negotiation

Pre-established
harmony
(Leibniz)

Music visualisation

Prescribed
choreographic
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 Hndel

Barockfest Ludwigslust 2010
Goldener Saal (Youtube)

Folk dance - Oravais menuett Pellinge,

Borg, Finland 2007 (Youtube)

John Playford (16231686/7)

Kellom Tomlinson (ca 1690-1753)

Thomas Wilson (17901849)

Raul Bravo (Youtube)