Embodied cognition assumes that sensory-motor units of meaning are embedded in human action. Some of them are the so-called image-schemas: pre?conceptual, embodied structures that represent the most basic spatial-temporal relationships. Almost nothing is known about the way those structures begin to form in development. Recent research in developmental psychology has suggested that (i) adults bring infants a multimodal performance, which is assumed as an antecedent of the temporal arts (dance and music); (ii) infants develop an early ability to experience other?s actions, called altercentric perception, which is manifest through an observable participant perception. This paper explores for the first time the presence of image-schemas and its performative nature in adult stimulation, and its correlative infant?s participant perception.