Embodied knowledge and social touch

Communication between people can easily be regarded as a piece of music. All ingredients are there; The pitch, the rythm,, the coordination of movement patterns, the energy, the interpretation of gestures and mimicry. Music therefore is (or should be) a part of all communication in the medical world, as part of the Medicine and part of academia.From our findings regarding the theem #metoo; "We don’t use the same vocabular of “body borders” when you are talking to a person outside the music- and dance world”. "As a dancer/musican you are trained to regulate and adapt your perception, compared to a non dancer or non musician”. “To be touched” can mean so many different things for different people”. "There are differences between physial and emotional sensations”. “We have different body memories that affect our perception totally different”. Using the strong artistic experience that the performance of a musical work provides, we explore a) how musicians and composers can express and communicate difficult feelings and b) how emotional expressions from music influence the audience after attending the concerts. Our "knowledge concert", dealing with charged and sensitive topic as #metoo, is evaluated and reflected on.