Comparing the Kinetics of Movement while Expressing Different Emotions during the Korean Traditional Dance Movement Gam - ki

Abstract

The double-arm winding (Gam-ki) movement is one of the basic movements of Korean traditional dance. Using lapsed time studies, ratio, relative time point of completing joint movement, size of movement, and the difference between ground reaction forces and ground impulse analysis, we investigated the characteristics of movement depending on the emotion being expressed. We selected 11 Korean traditional dancers with more than 10 years of experience (age: 26 ± 1.5 years, height: 167.6 ± 6.4 cm, weight: 53.6 ± 6.8 kg), portraying 4 different emotions (anger, joy, sadness, and neutral). The results of repeated measurements were statistically analyzed through one-way ANOVA. Unlike movements in sports, the Gam-ki movement follows the order of hip, knee, and ankle joints during the weight-acceptance phase. The hip joint movement quickened when a relatively active emotion (“angry” or “joy”) was expressed. The movement was transmitted to the distal joints relatively slowly when “joy” or “sadness” emotion was expressed as opposed to when “neutral” or “angry” emotions were displayed. Unlike the arm joints, the movement range of the leg joints is largely influenced by body movement; hence, it was difficult to consider it as an emotional characteristic.