How Do Dancers Learn To Dance?
A first-person perspective of dance acquisition by expert contemporary dancers
We were interested in supporting motor skill acquisition in highly creative skilled practices such as dance. In this direction, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 professional dancers to better understand how they learn new dance movements. In this study, we aim to provide an empirical foundation to better understand the acquisition of dance movements from the perspective of the learner.
Cite as :
Jean-Philippe Rivière, Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Baptiste Caramiaux, Wendy Mackay. How Do Dancers Learn To Dance?: A first-person perspective of dance acquisition by expert contemporary dancers. MOCO 2018 - 5th International Conference on Movement and Computing, Jun 2018, Gênes, Italy. pp.1-8, ⟨10.1145/3212721.3212723⟩. ⟨hal-01849604v2⟩Abstract:
We are interested in supporting motor skill acquisition in highly creative skilled practices such as dance. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 professional dancers to better understand how they learn new dance movements.
We found that each dancer engages in a set of operations, including imitation, segmentation, marking, or applying movement variations. We also found a progression in learning dance movements composed of three steps consistently reported by dancers: analysis, integration and personalization. Through this themes, we aim at providing an empirical foundation to better understand the acquisition of dance movements from the perspective of the learner.
