The
Representation of Affect Revealed by Butoh Dance
L. MacFarlane, I. Kulka, & F.E. Pollick |
This
study looks at the Japanese dance form, Butoh, and examines subjects'
similarity ratings of ten affects to see whether they form a circumplex
structure. Naive western viewers observed pairwise presentation of
15 second movie clips of dance segments devised to convey different
affects. For each possible pairing of the ten affects observers provided
a rating of dissimilarity of the dance movements. These dissimilarity
ratings were analyzed using the Proxscal algorithm for multidimensional
scaling. The results suggest a circumplex structure, with two dimensions
that correspond to activation and valence. The cues which may aid
recovery of activation and valence from movement are discussed.
|