摘要：AbstractWe obtained kinematic, affective, and aesthetic judgments from 3 different groups of participants for 203 ballet movements of a newly developed ballet movement library (Christensen et al.,resubmitted). Two types of kinematic movement descriptors were obtained. First, the clips were coded in 6 movementdynamicsdescriptors. By means of a principal component analysis (PCA), it was found that movementPath(in horizontal plane),Manner(in vertical plane), andQuantitywere the basic kinematic dimensions. Second, judgments of the four Laban movement dimensions of the Shape-Effort space of the theory of Rudolf Laban (Laban 1988) were obtained. These areTime,Space,Weight, andFlow. The values from this judgment procedure were again submitted to a PCA by which one component was extracted (Laban Score). Finally, the movements were rated in affectiveValenceandArousal, and in the aesthetics dimensionsBeauty,Liking, andWanting. Pearson's correlations revealed that movementMannerdid not show any correlations with any of the other variables. The variablePathshowed trend effect correlations with theLaban Scoreand theAffectiveresponses: the softer and expansive the movements, the more positive and highly arousing they were perceived. Furthermore, more expansiveness in space (a high score inPath) was correlated with higher ratings in the scales ofBeauty,Liking, andInterest. AlsoQuantitycorrelated positively withValence,Arousal, and allAestheticsratings. TheLaban Scorewas negatively correlated withValenceandArousaland positively correlated with the aesthetics dimensionInterestingness. Given that theLaban Scorerepresentshow energeticthe movement is, these data points together seem to suggest that the affective valence and level of arousal a spectator derives from a dance movement and its interest depends on the movement's saliency and on the fluent quality of that movement. AffectiveValenceandArousalboth correlated positively with all threeAestheticsratings. This means that especially movements that evoked positive valence and high arousal were considered to be moreBeautiful,Likeable, andInteresting.
