抄録
The correspondence between precise dance and movements the accompanying musical arrangement is imperative to the reception of the performance. Whether the choreography is excellent or not becomes irrelevant if the performer's movements do not coincide with the score. This paper proposes an evaluation method based on an audience's impression of the correspondence between the music and a dancer's movements. This evaluation method is called “Kansei matching.”There are three main components in kansei matching: the music, the movement, Kansei words. The dictionary translation of the term kansei says that it means sensibility, sensuous, sensual, and that terms such as sunny, gloomy, weak, solitary, peaceful, warm, intense, and joyful are Kansei words; However, there meanings do not convey accurately how the term Kansei functions in this research. For the matching method, kansei refers to a set of nine terms that express, verbally, the sentiment of both the music and movement.
