Publication details
The effect of the length of sports for the dancers’ performance
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Abstract book 29th FIEP Word Congress, Istambul, Turkey |
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| Keywords | Performance; length of sports; dance; scaling |
| Description | The aim of our work was to compare length of sports to performance level of dancers. We had to analyze and evaluate the linkage between the amount of dancers’ experience to the performance level of dancers. An average age of the participants was 21.53 years, the standard deviation is 6,77 years. We have found out the length of sports and performance level of dancers by analysis the meta data obtained during concurrent measurements of the rhythmic skills of participants by software rhythmic-meter. Values obtained by these measurements were statistically processed and evaluated. The number of respondents was 102. The length of sports was in between 0.5 to 40 years. We have had the performance levels scaled into 5 groups. Category 1 represents the lowest performance level, the participants are not on the competition level, they attend only the dance courses for beginners. Category 5 on the other hand represents the highest performance level. The dancers of this category compete on the highest level, they are part of dance crews, attend dance schools and are included in the “best part” (it is marked as part A = the elite members). They represent the Czech Republic in the competitions on the Europe or worldwide level. The dance teachers and elite lectors are in this category too. The obtained data and values were saved into the Excel table. The results show that our assumption has been confirmed: the length of sports (dancers’ experience) has high impact on the performance level of the dancers. For data evaluation we have used the statistical nonparametric test Spearman coefficient of sequence correlation, which has defined the statistically important positive correlation rho= 0.7534506. We can predicate that if the respondent pursues the dance activities in the long run, there is a high increase in sports performance and vice versa, to achieve the master level is necessary a high degree of talent for sure, but even though the performance shift is always a long-term process and it is essential to motivate dancers to persevere the “process”. Breaking years are in the 3 to 6 year of dancing. Then only a small part of the dancers continues. |