The body is here and exists now: phenomenological analysis of dance and performance, is a reflexive article that born thanks to the author's interest in the human body and its different ways of considering itself both, in art and philosophy. An analysis of them is carried out from the vision of the phenomenology of perception proposed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French philosopher), highlighting the importance of corporeality as a way to meet the world, analyzing terms like time and space will determine the importance of have a human body that is here and exists now.