This article focuses on the collaboration between somatic education and dance as a sub-space for production of qualified knowledge on the body. It is argued that the practices of somatic education have provided new kinds of investigation and creation, making significant changes in the ways of making dance and producing new aesthetic concepts that present other ideas than the ones from the classical mechanist epistemology. Our hypothesis is that this hybrid zone between art and science has been mobilizing important conceptions, such as memory, cognition, movement, habit, nature, and culture, among others, producing an important support for new epistemologies on the body.
dance; somatic education; body; epistemology