Refers to the ability of the body’s sensory organs in the muscles, tendons, and joints to respond to stimuli while dancing or viewing a dance.

A sense mediated by end organs located in muscles, tendons, and joints and stimulated by bodily movements and tensions. A sensory experience derived from this sense.

The sensory modality of touch, muscle tension (sensations) and emotions (feelings).

The sense of feeling. May be subdivided into tactile feelings (Kt = skin sensing physically feeling the outside world), proprioceptive feelings (Kp = movement, internal body sensations such as muscle tension or relaxation), and meta feelings (Km = “emotional” responses about some object, situation or experience). (See “Representational Systems.”)