Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy
The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele (1999), Choreographer Lea Anderson, Photo Chris Nash (1999) Watching Dance Logo

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Research questions

 

Anna Kuppuswamy. Photograph by Steve Osborn.

To what extent do spectators of dance internally simulate the movement observed?

 

What conditions favour empathetic responses?

 

What are the roles of social engagement and emotional response in kinesthetic empathy? read more


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About the project

'Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy' uses audience research and neuroscience to investigate arguments that kinesthetic empathy is central to consciousness and to spectator response to dance.

Ours is a multidisciplinary project, funded by a grant from the AHRC, involving collaboration across four institutions... read more



Still from Loose in Flight by Rachel Davies

Kinesthetic Empathy, Concepts and Contexts

Thank you to everyone who helped to make the conference such a success.

In spite of the challenges thrown our way by the volcanic ash cloud the event went ahead as planned and you can find out about it on the conference website and on our brand new conference forum www.watchingdance.ning.com where we have posted videos of keynote addresses, panels and some of the movement workshops

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Rosie Kay Dance Company and the Watching Dance Project

September 2009 saw Watching Dance collaborate with the Rosie Kay Dance Company for an exclusive production of Double Points: 3x in Manchester. This unique performance was part of an investigation into the effect of sound and music on audience response to dance and was recorded in a series of short films which you can now view online.







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