Aesthetic experience of dance performances

Dance experience sculpts aesthetic perception and related brain circuits

Previous research on aesthetic preferences demonstrates that people are more likely to judge a stimulus as pleasing if it is familiar. Although general familiarity and liking are related, it is less clear how motor familiarity, or embodiment, relates to a viewer's aesthetic appraisal. This study directly compared how learning to embody an action impacts the neural response when watching and aes...

Synchronization, Attention and Transformation: Multidimensional Exploration of the Aesthetic Experience of Contemporary Dance Spectators

The co-presence of bodies in intersubjective situations can give rise to processes of kinesthetic empathy and physiological synchronization, especially in the context of dance: the body and attention of the spectators are oriented towards the dancers. In this study, we investigate the processes of "body-mind" resonance between a choreography and its spectators, and more specifically the lasting...

aesthetic experience of built environment

throughout human evolution history, beauty has always been one of the necessary integral components of human need. as greer (2010) said, “one of the prehistoric human’s responses to the animal life around them was to etch and paint these animals on the walls of their caves. turning them into art and rendering them beautiful was a natural response - a way to help make sense of a hostile and conf...

Design for Aesthetic Experience

Taiwanese government has been aggressively promoting culture creative industries in recent years. To achieve the goals of industry transformation and to better the living environment, it further propels the innovative concept of “creative life industry”. Demonstrating a new economy model, creative life industry intends to attain experience economy through attracting consumers with life aestheti...

Two Views of Dance: Aesthetic Theory and Performance