Dance spectators? No way
Dance, like music, is not a spectator sport. Even from the couch, our cells are creating vibrations that mirror and map the dance or the music that we are watching. In the book This is Your Brain on Music, Levitin explains how the brain cells create matching tones of music we hear. And in a study on dance by Brown and Parsons in Scientific American, “The Neuroscience of Dance.” They say, “Investigators have found that when people watch simple actions, areas in the premotor cortex involved in performing those actions switch on, suggesting that we mentally rehearse what we see.”
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