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Damilare Adeyeri Speaks about Kinesthetic Empathy

Name: Damilare Adeyeri Speaks about Kinesthetic Empathy
Uploaded: 2024-12-19T11:00:16+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Stacey Lauren
Description: A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video in which the speaker (Damilare Adeyeri) explains the concept of kinesthetic empathy. The speaker…

19 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video in which the speaker (Damilare Adeyeri) explains the concept of kinesthetic empathy. The speaker describes kinesthetic empathy as the audience feeling the performer’s embodied emotion and then pushes the idea further to being a "participant observer"—an engaged, energy-sharing experience rooted in performance (dance/theater), referencing an anthropology perspective and describing the moment as surreal.

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There's something called kinesthetic empathy, right? So kinesthetic empathy is, on a normal scale, when you're watching a performance, like a dance theater, whatever, and the audience start to feel the same emotion that that performer is radiating, you know, or embodying on stage. Now, this goes beyond that to actually, you are no longer an observer, but you were actually a participant observer. You're together, and I'm throwing my anthropology background there. But anyway, so it's like you're engaged, you engage. It's fun. You know, it's the energy transfer of the light. And so for me, that was just the most surreal experience.