Kema: While I was not personally involved in these studies, I believe that the idea was to use the same basic movement "form" (i.e. the parallel demi plie) for all emotional conditions, but to vary the dynamics of that movement in order to express the given emotion. As to how the conditions were "created", I believe that the dancers were simply asked to perform the plie movement with the expressive intent of fear, anger or neutral. Does this answer your question? If you are interested in looking at the original paper, it is available on-line at: http://asb-biomech.org/NACOB98/199/index.html Cheers! Robynne M. Gravenhorst Executive Artistic Director, The Anatomical Theatre http://www.anatomical.org On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:06:37 +0100 "kema T." <kema@kema.org.uk> writes: > In message <20020414.233856.-348015.3.anatomical@juno.com>, > anatomical@juno.com writes > > I would like to know how you created the conditions of fear and > anger > when conducting your experiments. > > Thanks > > Kema > > > > >1) J. Streepey and M. Gross (1998) conducted a study entitled > "Influence of > >emotional intent on dance kinematics". Dancers were asked to > perform what > >Streepey and Gross call a "whole body gesture" (in this case > basically a > >demi plie in parallel position). Subjects performed the movement > under 3 > >expressive conditions: neutral, fear and anger. Position data > from > >reflective markers placed at 12 body landmarks were captured, and > >kinematics for the ankle, lower spine and shoulder were analyzed. > To cut to > >the chase, Streepey and Gross found that "range of motion increased > with > >anger and fear. Peak velocities differed between emotions, with > the lowest > >velocities in neutral movements and the highest velocities in > anger". > > > >One interesting question that arises here is what is the difference > between > >expressive intent (on the part of the performer) and the perception > of > >expression (on the part of the audience). Would a naive observer > have > >interpreted these same movements as "fear" or "anger"? > > > > -- > Kema T. Ekpei Esq. > > kema@kema.org.uk > www.kema.org.uk > >
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