The practice of the self in "the Dancing body"

In dance performance, the viewer sometimes has a sense that he is attracted to a specific dancer. However the viewer is not attracted to other dancers like he is to the specific one. It can be said that the dancer who attracts the viewers has a special “body” or bodily image. In this research such body is defined as “the dancing body”. Jaana Parviainen, philosopher and dancer, analyzes a process of dancer approaching such special body. The important concepts in her theory are “transformation of the body” and “the practice of the self. ” Dancer changes the way he relates himself to the world through dance discipline. Parviainen argues that there are two types of body techniques. One is “ everyday life body techniques, ” which influence an individual’s life and produce a way of living, and the other is “ extra-daily techniques” used by dance educators and performers. A dancer can reach “the transformation of the body” through the interaction between the two techniques from dance practice. Dancer’s own body-self change gradually in the process of acquiring “the dancer’ s intelligence.” This process is understood as “practice of the self”. In order to structure “the dancing body,” we need “practice of the self”