Language in the biobank

This book is dedicated to biodanza, a system based on integrative vivencias induced by dance, music, song and group encounter situations, where a vivencia is an experience lived by an individual with great intensity in the present moment, which includes emotional, coenesthetic and organic functions. The aim of this book is to show the maximum breadth of linguistic aspects related to biodanza, to present the possibilities that biodanza offers in the field of language education, to point out its linguistic specificities and to outline possibilities for further research into language in biodanza. The book is divided into a theoretical part and a research part, with the theoretical part summarising the ideas related to the linguistic aspects of biodanza that can be found in the work of the founder of this system – the Chilean educator, psychologist and anthropologist Rolando Toro Araneda – and his followers. The linguistic portfolio of biodanza and the linguistic aspects in the three essential areas of verbal communication in biodanza are described in detail here, which are silence or the absence of language, spoken language and written language. The research part of this book then looks at the areas related to both the absence of language and spoken and written language in biodanza in an attempt to answer the basic research question: What is the potential of language in biodanza?