Vision tends to be associated with the mind and theorized as the least bodily sense. Notably, the eye often symbolizes distance. Foregrounding the fleshy embeddedness of the gaze through an analysis of jitterbug, the present article stresses the bodily and intimate significance of vision in dancing. Analyzing ethnographic observation and interview data, we develop a phenomenological approach to dance and gaze that stresses the need to address multi-sensoriality, adding vision to the perspective of tactile-kinesthetic touch. However, the article develops a more-than-optic perspective on “dancing as vision.” The “sensing eye” is analyzed, first, as a body technique central to couple dancing and, second, as the use and meaning of vision across spatial distance, as between dancers and bystanders. Throughout the article, the dance floor unveils connections between eye and body, self and other, and passive and active and thus pushes notions of emplacement and embodiment.

视觉往往与心灵相关联，并被理论化为最不重要的身体感觉。值得注意的是，眼睛通常象征着距离。本文通过对 jitterbug 的分析，突出凝视的肉质嵌入，强调视觉在舞蹈中的身体和亲密意义。通过分析人种学观察和采访数据，我们开发了一种舞蹈和凝视的现象学方法，强调需要解决多感官问题，为触觉-动觉触觉的视角增加视觉。然而，这篇文章对“作为视觉的舞蹈”提出了一种超越光学的观点。“感知眼”首先被分析为双人舞的核心身体技术，其次，作为舞者和旁观者之间跨空间距离的视觉的使用和意义。在整篇文章中，