November 8th to 11th, 2004

Adriana Bittencourt Machado
adrianabittencourt@uol.com.br
PUC/SP - Brazil

THE DANCE OF THE PERMANENCE: A GAME THAT ALLOWS TO ADJUST POSSIBILITY AND NECESSITY

ABSTRACT
The present communication comes to elucidate the phenomenon of the permanence as indispensable condition so that the systems and environments obtain to communicate e, thus to collaborate for the evolution of the Universe. The life of all organism is movement. The dance, as everything that is alive, if transforms for the movement. Here, the dance serves as example where if it applies this hypothesis on the permanence, accurately for its character to exist in permanent making, and, therefore, to be always transformation. The Universe evolves transforming readjustments generated for displacements and entailing, in a species of "cosmic dance" or "dance of the permanence": a game that allows adjusting possibility and necessity. Being thus, the dance initiates its time when it emerges, therefore on the point of view of the system, the time "is born" when it emerges as singularity. We know that the daily body in its if express through movements and gestures, motion codes formed by standards, that in the languages human beings assume forms of arguments, laws, symbols. The body dances as it thinks, therefore is in the body that if gives the experience of the mediations and the dance appears as expression of these relations. The dance movement can appear as first-iconic sign, as that second -as fact and as third, as mediating and representation of a body: the movement simultaneously. Everything that exists express something. In the dance, the movement is the key of its communication. It is what Universe makes of the dance one in the possible ways it if to communicate.

KEYWORDS: Permanence, Dance, Movement, Mediation.

Center for Pragmatism Studies
Philosophy Graduate Program
Departament of Philosophy
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo - Brazil