Himberg Tommi, Laroche Julien, Bigé Romain, Buchkowski Megan, Bachrach Asaf
Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland.
ICI-Project, Labex Arts H2H, Université Paris 8, 93526 Saint-Denis, France.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2018 Feb 9;8(2):23. doi: 10.3390/bs8020023.
Collective dance improvisation (e.g., traditional and social dancing, contact improvisation) is a participatory, relational and embodied art form which eschews standard concepts in aesthetics. We present our ongoing research into the mechanisms underlying the lived experience of "togetherness" associated with such practices. Togetherness in collective dance improvisation is kinaesthetic (based on movement and its perception), and so can be simultaneously addressed from the perspective of the performers and the spectators, and be measured. We utilise these multiple levels of description: the first-person, phenomenological level of personal experiences, the third-person description of brain and body activity, and the level of interpersonal dynamics. Here, we describe two of our protocols: a four-person mirror game and a 'rhythm battle' dance improvisation score. Using an interpersonal closeness measure after the practice, we correlate subjective sense of individual/group connectedness and observed levels of in-group temporal synchronization. We propose that kinaesthetic togetherness, or interpersonal resonance, is integral to the aesthetic pleasure of the participants and spectators, and that embodied feeling of togetherness might play a role more generally in aesthetic experience in the performing arts.
集体舞蹈即兴创作（例如传统舞蹈、社交舞蹈、接触即兴舞蹈）是一种参与性、关联性且具身体体验的艺术形式，它摒弃了美学中的标准概念。我们展示了我们正在进行的关于与此类实践相关的“团聚”生活体验背后机制的研究。集体舞蹈即兴创作中的团聚是动觉的（基于动作及其感知），因此可以从表演者和观众的角度同时进行探讨，并进行测量。我们利用这些多层次的描述：个人体验的第一人称现象学层面、大脑和身体活动的第三人称描述以及人际动态层面。在此，我们描述我们的两个方案：四人镜像游戏和“节奏之战”舞蹈即兴创作乐谱。在实践后使用人际亲密度测量方法，我们将个体/群体联系的主观感受与观察到的群体内时间同步水平进行关联。我们提出，动觉上的团聚，即人际共鸣，是参与者和观众审美愉悦的组成部分，并且这种身体上的团聚感可能在表演艺术的审美体验中更普遍地发挥作用。
