Julia F. Christensena, Anna Lambrechts, Frank E. Pollick und Antoni Gomila haben die psychologische Wirkung von Balletfiguren untersucht (Affective responses to dance).
„… more positive emotions in response to clips that involved the dancer performing the attitude position … than to clips that did not involve any rounded movements.“
„Participants felt more positive emotion when the leg was raised at all compared with not being raised – a more impressive feat – but there was no increase in positive emotion for leg raises that were higher and more difficult. The researchers said this suggests that, in contrast with gymnastics, „affect is induced from dance through the quality of the expressive intention of the movement – not just by its quality (e.g. how stretched or extreme)“.“
Ich finde zwei Dinge besonders interessant:
- Runde Bewegungen bewirken positivere Emotionen als eckige.
- Die emotionale Qualität einer Ausführung hat mehr Einfluss auf die emotionale Bewertung als athletische.