Abstract
The current study highlights individual differences in the joint articulation strategies used by novices practicing a hip-hop dance movement, the wave. Twelve young adults, all naive regarding hip-hop dance performance, practized the wave in 120 trials separated into four blocks with the order of internal or external attentional focus counterbalanced across subjects. Various kinematic analyses were analyzed to capture performance success while exploiting the observed individual differences in order to establish the reliability of the proposed performance indicators. An external focus of attention marginally facilitated the smooth transfer of a wave motion across neighboring limb segments as characterized by a constant propagation speed combined with large wave amplitudes. Systematic correlations between the success indicators were found, exemplifying the various degrees of joint articulation that novices prove capable of during an initial practicing session to try and perform a novel complex motor task.
Highlights
Kinematic analyses of dance movements have traditionally focused on movements of the lower limbs, such as turning, jumping, and elevation of the legs, often to highlight injury profiles and improve rehabilitation and performance (Miura et al, 2011; Chia-Wei et al, 2014)
The aim of the current study is to extend the research of Sato et al (2015) to naïve participants practicing a hip-hop dance wave motion through the fully and horizontally stretched arms with the additional goal to explore behavioral dimensions which may serve a functional role in feedback and or knowledge-of-results based dance training
We predicted that an external focus would have no impact on the execution of a dance wave pattern in novice individuals
Summary
Kinematic analyses of dance movements have traditionally focused on movements of the lower limbs, such as turning, jumping, and elevation of the legs, often to highlight injury profiles and improve rehabilitation and performance (Miura et al, 2011; Chia-Wei et al, 2014). The aim of the current study is to extend the research of Sato et al (2015) to naïve participants practicing a hip-hop dance wave motion through the fully and horizontally stretched arms with the additional goal to explore behavioral dimensions which may serve a functional role in feedback and or knowledge-of-results based dance training. The latter target, requires further empirical studies
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