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.
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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.
Perspectives
Writing this paper gave me the rare opportunity to express research based on an individual experience, thus contributing to expanding the kind of knowledge one may convey through an implicated observation.
Gustavo Vicente
Universidade de Lisboa
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This page is a summary of: Turning the world back to earth (and back again) through Alessandro Sciarroni’s spinning practice, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, July 2022, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jdsp_00070_1.
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