ABSTRACT
The introduction provides an overview of the scope of Moving Relation. It situates the book in the research fields of dance studies as well as theories of touch. The introduction also explicates the method of the book, the way it juxtaposes performances analysis and theoretical argumentation. Central to the book’s methodology is that dance performances do not represent but rather intensify the gestures of touch. Through the different modes of intensification, they foreground dimensions of touch such as its movements, its affective relations and the multiplicity of its sensation that are also at work in our everyday life, yet they are usually backgrounded.
