Dan.Ce.In: Body and Transformation in Contemporary Dance

Abstract

Abstract: This contribution explores Dan.Ce.In's experience as an artistic and recombinatory practice capable of redefining the boundaries of contemporary dance through work with heterogeneous bodies. Situated within the tradition of postmodern dance, the proposed recombinant methodology aims not only to socially integrate or facilitate inclusive practices, but also to generate new aesthetic imaginaries based on listening, co-presence and the emergence of difference as a poetic and dramaturgical resource. The article analyses the theoretical basis of the practice, from the phenomenology of the body to embodied cognition, discussing the testimonies of dancers who reinterpret their artistic experience as a form of embodied knowledge. The emerging picture opens up the prospect of dance as a relational ecology in which bodies become producers of knowledge, possibility and freedom, helping to transform the stage into a place of artistic citizenship and real agency.