Performative Beauty - The Pleasure of Dancing Argentine Tango

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.The videoarticle outlines an aesthetic theory of performative beauty. The article investigatesexperiences of beauty that occur while one is bodily engaged in an activity.The concrete case is the social dance Argentine tango. The article shows thatthe flow of interaction between the dancers and the music brings about the danceas an agent proper. The distributed agency allows for a situated awareness thatincludes proprioception and kinaesthesia. This awareness in action crystalizes asthe sentiment of beauty.@font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:roman;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-unhide:no;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";margin:0cm;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;mso-default-props:yes;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}