Somaesthetics Expanded From The Practice Of Modern Dance

In the early 20^thcentury,based on Baumgarten’s view of aesthetics as the perfection of perceptual knowledge,Schusterman put forward the scope of somaesthetics with the body as the core.As a critical study for body’s experience and foundation,somaesthetics extremely needs to explore more specific body training methods about practical dimensions,so that it can provide the basic need of body improvement and perfect the subject construction of somaesthetics.Dance,as an art with the body as material,interweaves with body.From the 20^thh century,the aesthetic ideal and body excise method are different from traditional dance,and the infinite possibilities of body are extended to a new boundary.In the modern dance long history,constantly pursuing of innovation,a series of body training technology and choreography methods are breed,such as“Contact improvisation”,“opportunity”,“environment”and so on,especially those methods which birth in the post modern dance time make unprecedented breakthroughs in the liberation and cognition of the body.Somaesthetics focuses on improving the inner experience of the body,and takes the acquisition of aesthetic experience as the basis of body shaping.The aesthetic experience,which is fluent in the art,is evoked by pragmatism of modern dance.And the body is changing with the aesthetic experience all the time so that it can make us feel joy and balance in the every moment.The body perception is shifting with the effect of kinesthesis,and the motor function of the body is constantly evoked by the modern dance training.Kinesthesis is gradually awakening,which liberates body from the constraint of consciousness and makes it be the illuminati in sport,so that the original perception of the body is evoked by the exercise,and reconstitute body’s perceptual field.By demonstrating the aesthetic characteristics and training methods of modern dance,this paper take the integration aesthetic experience and the improvement of body perception as the entry point,so that it can fill the lake of somaesthetics by directly transforming individual into a training program to improve body practice.