Eurythmic Dancing with Plants -- Measuring Plant Response to Human Body Movement in an Anthroposophic Environment
This research explores the potential for subtle human-plant interaction, which could be of interest to practitioners of anthroposophic agriculture or eurythmy, though the practical implications are currently unclear.
This paper investigates the interaction between human eurythmic dancing and garden plants (beetroots, tomatoes, lettuce) by measuring plant action potentials and leaf movement. The study found a correlation between the dancer's movements and the plants' responses, and suggests that plants exposed to eurythmic dancing over multiple weeks might respond differently than newly exposed plants.
This paper describes three experiments measuring interaction of humans with garden plants. In particular, body movement of a human conducting eurythmic dances near the plants (beetroots, tomatoes, lettuce) is correlated with the action potential measured by a plant SpikerBox, a device measuring the electrical activity of plants, and the leaf movement of the plant, tracked with a camera. The first experiment shows that our measurement system captures external stimuli identically for different plants, validating the measurement system. The second experiment illustrates that the plants' response is correlated to the movements of the dancer. The third experiment indicates that plants that have been exposed for multiple weeks to eurythmic dancing might respond differently to plants which are exposed for the first time to eurythmic dancing.