From Movement to Sound, from Sound to Movement: biocultural relations between dance and music

Abstract

This article discusses the interactions between body and sound in the creative process characterized by the relation between dance, music and sonic experiments. Based on the production Peças Fáceis, by Pró-Posição Group, and Z, by Alejandro Ahmed, this study presents theoretical approaches between Dance Studies and Embodied Music Cognition fields. It also intends to discuss what happens to the bodily perception and mediation process in artists who dance, play musical instruments and produce vocal sounds. The analyzed plays, each one in its way, defend the idea that sound and movement are no-concluded processes crossed constantly by mutual and biocultural interactions with the environment.

Keywords

• contemporary dance
• creative processes
• movement
• sound
• cognitive sciences