Movement-learning as always starts from looking other performer who is good at movement. In order to reproduce the performance it is important for the performer to be able to sympathize with the other performer. In this paper the author tried to clarify the structure of sympathy and to indicate the method of the performace-reproduction.
The results are as follows:
We have a “schema” which enables us to move our bodies in relevant way. 1) If I (a learner of movement) have the same schema that causes the other skilled performer to move, I can sympathize with him. 2) Though I cannot sympathize with him without having the same schema, in many case we have a similar or partial schema of the movement of which I can be aware of, so we can sympathize with him in part. But, “to be able to sympathize in part” is not synonymous with “to be able to perform partially”. We should be careful that the perceptual contents of mine is not same as his but only similar to it. 3 ) Though I cannot perform partially by partial sympathy, I can have a whole sympathy potentially. “Quasi-sympathy” in this vain is caused by the whole schema. It is not accompanied with clear awareness of the movement. But it shall turn out to be a true sympathy. It is, therefore, important to perform repeatedly the movement in sequence (not in part) by employing quasi-sympathy.
The structure of sympathy pointed above also suggests the effective method of movement-learning or performance-reproduction.