Embodied dance: connectivity at work

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1. Devorah Shubowitz says

   27/04/2019 at 02:23

   I have many questions. On the one hand, it is valuable to experience the body of another as one’s own, but what does it mean for a person with disabilities to inhabit the movements of a non-disabled person when they cannot inhabit them outside of wearing the glasses? How does the person with disabilities feel about that? Is this used as a treatment technique? What values does this convey? Does it work the other way around? If so, would a non-disabled person be performing a more intense version of simulation, a practice that has been critiqued as not effective? Would this kind of embodiment be a more effective form of understanding the movement experience of another? Also, wearing these glasses hides the person’s face and places them in an internal world that is on view, yet the viewer does not open their internal world this way—there is a kind of voyeurism and unequal power dynamic in that perspective. It would change things very much if the glasses were worn by both parties. Also, who is initiating the movement and who is following? I appreciated this video very much and hope really to understand more deeply what this means. Many many thanks!