Marking in Dance A physical exploration of a concept of movement Beatriz Vasconcelos Pereira Nº 136316002 ABSTRACT Dancers use their body as a vehicle of thought, transforming visual and verbal information into movement. Movements are studied through a schematic and simplify version of the full- out exercise: they mark. Marking is a process of embodied cognition in which dancers practice the details of a movement, in order to embody the choreography and make it part of muscle memory. Once part of the body, dancers start adding personal layers and founding new solutions for motion. Marking is reflecting on concepts, movements and mental images using the body as an anchor for representation, to improve the physical live experience. Based on previous works about embodied cognition theory and dance studies, this paper is centred in how marking is a away of encoding, thinking and memorising concepts of movement through the body and the somatic and kinesthetic system. KEYWORDS Body, Dance, Embodied Cognition, Marking, Mind, Memory