Dance improvisation
as philosophical practice

A phenomenological analysis of practical bodily experience
based on the “Acting View” in Kitarō Nishida

 

The starting point for this is the thesis of the acting view of the Japanese philosopher.
Kitarō Nishida. Nishida uses the concept of the Acting View to refer to the emergence and realization of
realization of ‚reality as an event‘ in the bodily process. The acting
According to Nishida, the acting view is the creative act from which reality emerges as we experience it. What appears in our objective consciousness as a subject or object is a form of expression.
Is an expression of the reference system from which it arises. This act of creation,
i.e., the process of creation from which these expressive moments emerge is the acting
contemplation.

(Quote from the introduction to the bachelor thesis)