Paper short abstract:

How "dancing body" experiences (Federici 2016) which have been historically marginalized as thought practices open up to a materialism of gestures that departs both from a substantialism of the body that drags the dualism of Western modernism, and from a substantialism of the individuality?

Paper long abstract:

"From dance we learn that matter is not stupid, it is not blind, it is not mechanical, but has rhythms, has language, and it is self-activated and self-organizing," (Federici 2016 s / n).

I propose to take this affirmation of the feminist thinker Silvia Federici in In Praise of a Dancing Body as a challenge to think a renewed materialism from dancing experiences and feminist epistemologies.

Reflecting on how bodily practices (historically marginalized as thought practices) open up perspectives for a materialism between gestures that departs both from a substantialism of the body that drags the dualism of Western modernism, and from a substantialism of the individual, psychic and social. Specifically in order to think about the collective in terms of transindivuality (Simondon 2015).

For this, I propose to go through the experience of concrete practices of dance improvisation: Become a seismograph body ("We know now, for instance, that the Polynesian populations used to travel the high seas at night with only their body as their compass, as they could tell from the vibrations of the waves the different ways to direct their boats to the shore." (Federici 2016 s / n). Learning to orient oneself far away from the hegemony of the focal and frontal visual sense, by doing listening . Becoming a vibrating compass, attentive to the range of an amodal sensibility, becoming seismographs of forces (particularly gravitational) in progress, are some of the proposals contemporary dance, and improvisation in particular have (Bardet 2012: 115-136).