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Kirsi Heimonen & Leena Rouhiainen Notes on and Examples of Embodiment in Artistic Research of Dance and Performance

The essay discusses the problem of embodiment in artistic research dealing with dance and performance and offers some conceptual and methodological insights that can be of help in crafting new doctoral research in the area. It introduces previous notions related to embodiment within dance studies, especially phenomenological dance research, and offers some topical views from body studies. All of them bear significance to the cases of artistic doctoral research that are likewise discussed. Through the mentioned research examples, the essay aims to highlight how artistic research, performance practice, and conceptions of embodiment can inform each other. The specific interest is in how their intertwinement fosters understanding, as well as ways of working with and exposing dance and performance. The overall aim of the essay is to offer readers insights that serve designing and conducting artistic research whose focal concern is related to the performing body, mainly from the perspective of dance and choreography.