November 8th to 11th, 2004

Jussara Sobreira Setenta
jubreira@ig.com.br
UFBA - Brazil

FROM POTENCY TO ACT. FROM IDEA TO ACTION: BODY IN DEFINITION

ABSTRACT
This article attempts to show that the dancing body configures an action that as a result of its own thinking. Some beliefs and habits of action present within the relations between the inner and the outer sides can be found on the mediations understood as organization. Those relations make possible the occurrences of conduct changes conveyed by that body in dance, so that the performing, artistic making is organized from the experiences and observations of our Dasein condition. The state before the act of a dancing body is a state of potency, a sort of invisibility. Acting in performativity is possible to make visible the diversity of body speeches and actions, which question the existence of a given context, and so getting open to new context offerings. In the performativity environment, the artistic making is an intelligent body action, it is a signified on its own, for the movement is an act of the body and introduces itself as a whole. The body when dancing conveys a commitment that there is in the co-relation between ideality and conduct. The sense built by the set of actions returns as generality. So that the visible, which appears as a performative movement, is the thinking of that body.

KEYWORDS: Dance, Action, Body, Performativity.

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