Abstract
In this article philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s (1968, 1945) idea of reversibility is put in conversation with a professional contemporary dancer’s descriptions about her dance experience in a particular context. More specifically, the concepts inter- twining and chiasm are utilized to conceive of a spatial relation according to her descriptions of a co-construction of the look and feel of her dancing. This article supports the argument that the dancer, at times, embodies two (or more) perspec- tives, at once, and yet also, at other times, experiences gaps between what might otherwise be deemed ‘internal’, such as kinaesthetic experience, and ‘external’, such as video self-images. The work contributes to a growing area of dance scholarship giving voice to individual dancers’ practice and expertise (Ravn 2009; Rouhiainen 2003; Potter 2008; Albright 2011).