2024 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 27-37
Not only many aspects of dance performances such as performers’ movements, music, stage design, but also characteristics of observers should have critical roles in enhancing the observer’s pleasure and aesthetic evaluation in dance performances. This study examines how evaluations of dance performance of three different street dance genres are influenced by the total practice time and the recognition of psychical reproducibility between dancers’ specialized and non-specialized genres. We carried out online experiment, in which each participant rated the degrees of beauty, arousal, liking, complexity, and recognition of reproducibility. Using a variety of methods, we analyzed changes in aesthetic evaluation according to expertise and its generalization and segmentation from the perspective of dancers’ specialized and non-specialized genres. The results revealed commonalities and uniqueness between genres, suggesting the universality and the diversity of beauty.
