CooperAction Embodied approach to shared action through body sounds

Abstract

Abstract: The relationship between sound and corporeality reveals profound symbolic, aesthetic, and relational dimensions. In educational, performative, and transformative practices, body and sound can become tools for exploring the self and the world - sensitive devices capable of activating awareness, presence, and deep listening. In this perspective, body percussion emerges as an embodied practice that integrates movement, rhythm, and relationship, offering a participatory and shared learning space. Through the exploration of bodily timbres, imitation and invention intertwine within a rhythmic-communicative language that places the body in dialogue with itself, with others, and with the surrounding context. This contribution presents a brief segment of an ongoing action-research project aimed at promoting an enactive and multimodal pedagogy grounded in bodily experience. The reflection - both methodological and epistemological - is nourished by first-person lived experience, adopting a stance of radical and dialogical engagement that challenges traditional distinctions between subject and object, observer and participant. From an ecological and situated perspective, the "teaching-body" is conceived as a site of mediation between knowledge and the world, between theory and lived experience. Education is thus interpreted through an intersubjective lens, valuing corporeality not as a mere technique, but as a field of meaning, responsibility, and educational potential.