ABSTRACT
The chapter takes its point of departure in a co-created narrative written by a slack line contemporary circus performer. The narrative is written with inspiration from excerpts of interviews done to try capturing ‘how does it feel’. Much research in circus concerns the experience of the audience and less on the lived experiences of the performer which we decided to act on by prioritising the perspective of the performer. The circus performer in the process backstage.
Further, we liked to explore how arts can inform research in the arts: How an embodied arts-based approach can be developed to research an embodied arts education: Contemporary circus. The chapter is an example of how it turned out when it comes to co-creation and writings. The narrative reveals nuances about embodied learning which add to the existing body of literature. The essence of the narrative can be labelled: ‘me and the surroundings’. It seems to concern the awareness of self in relation to ‘the other/s’. This is then dealt with as ‘embodied encounters’ interrelated with the term ‘the intertwining’ from body phenomenology.
