Tuesday, March 8, 2011

What Do Happy Dances Have in Common?

There is a spring of bounce in the body or step of each of them at the peak of expression, or the height of each person’s bliss threshold. There is no known way to measure this without lab equipment, and somewhat contrived and artificial stimuli; so direct and repeated observation seems necessary to establish the various levels and degrees of happiness expressed by each individual. For comparative analysis, repeated observation may be the most effective and reliable measurement technique I have. Ideally I would like to capture these happy dances and spontaneous expressions on film for repeated viewing and logging a systematic way to assess Happy dance beyond crude momentary perceptions. But without unbridled spontaneity Happy dance is no longer authentic expression.


Here is some footage from "The Nerd Fighter Happy Dance Project". Looks like they did my work for me. But do any of these really meet the criteria of authenticity? I doubt it.





still interesting to watch and analyze though.

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