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Hello, I'm Claudia Hammond. Welcome to Discovery from the BBC. In this the last of the series of

anatomy of touch, we are looking to the future and to some

rather different ways of thinking about touch with a dancer called Lisa.

I've been dancing since I was six years old and I'm in my 40s now. I've trained in many

different styles and disciplines of dance introduced to improvisation practices in dance.

But in these practices there there's a need to tune into the body and tune into other bodies and also to the environment through what I would call a felt sensing, sort of through attending to how the body and the space and the other bodies within that space feel.

And these tuning processes can often take place with the eyes closed and so you're taking away

dominant visual information bringing in non-visual senses into the

foreground and after many years of doing these practices I think

I've been able to begin to kind of sense more I would sayesthetically, I can move in response to sensations of touch,

not just physical touch, but the sense of touch beyond the body.

So for instance, if I'm stood facing you and you move towards me or away from me I can feel that.

The air between us isn't empty. If you move around me I can move in response to the way in which that feels rather than in the way in which I see it.

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