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Reading Irigaray, Dancing

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Eluned Summers-Bremner
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Abstract

My essay incorporates Irigaray's notion of the sensible transcendental, a dynamic attempt to reconstitute the body/mind dualism which founds Western thought, into a reading of the practice of European concert dance. I contend that Irigaray's efforts toward articulating a language of the body as active agent have much to offer (feminist) analyses of dance practice, and develop this claim through a reading which reflects philosophically on the changing nature of my own dance activity.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , Winter 2000 , pp. 90 - 124
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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