One way to look at this is through the lens of kinesthetic empathy. In the sciences and, correspondingly, in our lay understanding of what empathy means, two distinct forms of empathy are commonly ...

Kinesthetic empathy, critics like Foster have argued, is what makes dance feel so infectious—and what prompts the body, upon seeing another body dance, to internally simulate the movement.

However, kinesthetic empathy happens in different ways. And we don’t necessarily have to be in live space to experience kinesthetic empathy. We can experience it through the screen.” ...

This idea depends on a long-established but little discussed idea in critical dance theory called kinesthetic empathy, which is the idea that people experience a direct, instinctive urge to mirror ...

You tighten the upper lip or you jut your jaw out and you go 'E.' Somebody with kinesthetic empathy is going to tell that there was a difference. You'll see an almost imperceptible flicker on ...