ABSTRACT
Jean Shinoda Bohen’s psychological application of Metis points to attributes of the full sophistic rhetorical meaning. There is a sense of knowing in metis, and that knowing requires physically engaging with the moment. The richness of metis as a concept is that it accounts for action. It would be wonderful to be able to tack down metis like a butterfly to a mat to examine it in calmness and stillness, but in stillness, like the spirit of the matted butterfly, metis disappears. The productivity of metis allows for all the things dance is: movement, change, shape-shifting, uncertainty, and discerning negotiations to conflate into a vital experience. Metis harbors a nexus of dynamic interactions enabling theorizations to dig to the depths of experience minimizing reductions. Metis is a myth buster when it comes to understanding how one masters one’s body to be a professional dancer.
