Förkroppsligad musikalitet : en praktiknära undersökning som utforskar det musikaliska dansandet

This study aims to explore musical work in silence. With jazz dance as framework, musicality is explored with solely the body. The purpose is to discover information about how such musicality appears and methods in howit can be achieved. With a qualitative research method, the exploration is performed with a focus groupconsisting of three jazz dancers. Movement qualities in jazz dance and music theoretical concepts served as twokeystones during the work. Through a thematic analysis method, the study identifies four themes correlatingwith embodied musicality: opposite relationships, collective processes, individual factors and genre specificity. The study resulted in new findings about the relationship between music and dance. Furthermore, the studyemphasizes that embodied musicality can, and should, be incorporated into jazz dance as a pedagogical andartistic practice. In conclusion, this study examines musicality in the form of physical embodiment and showshow it contributes to the understanding of jazz as a dance genre.