Meaning in art is related to our embodied selves. When we experience any artistic behavior, we are affected first of all by a meaningful configuration, prior to our actually interpreting it. When aesthetics investigates a performance on the stage, both the embodiedness in space and time of what happens on the stage and the spectator's being embodied, should be taken into account, in order to adequately grasp the affective power of art. Especially in the case of contemporary dance, meaning is to be considered as something "concrete" and "embodied". On the basis of evidence taken from modern dance, contemporary dance, and recent works by the choreographer Ho Hsiao-mei, this paper explores the bodily dimensions inherent to dance performances from a phenomenological stance, so as to elucidate how dance performances make artistic meaning interact with our bodily selves.