Performative Beauty – On the Pleasure of Dancing (Argentine Tango)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22169045 |
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| Authors | Falk Heinrich (0000-0001-7000-0362, Aalborg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Embodied Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2513-8421 • E-ISSN: 2513-8421 |
| Publisher | Open Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.16995/jer.10466 |
| OpenAlex | W4392431690 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The video article outlines an aesthetic theory of performative beauty. The article investigates experiences of beauty that occur while one is bodily engaged in an activity. The concrete case is the social dance Argentine tango. The article shows that the flow of interaction between the dancers and the music brings about the dance as an agent proper. The distributed agency allows for a situated, aesthetic awareness that includes the kinaesthetic awareness of the partner’s actions. This transactional awareness crystalizes as the sentiment of beauty
| Highly cited | No |
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