Original scientific paper

Vlatko Pavleski¹ , Zaklina Kovacevic Bozilova¹ 

https://doi.org/10.46733/PESH2514275p

Abstract

DanceSport is a highly coordinated sport and is characterized by a high degree of coordination requirements. The ability to coordinate is one of the most important factors limiting the performance of DanceSport Couples (DSCs) in the discipline of Latinamerican Sports Dance (LASD). Without the ability to coordinate, learning dance technique would be significantly more difficult. Coordination is a necessary precondition for learning, stability and realization of dance sports movements at all levels of age and abilities of DSCs. The better the quality of coordination, the more effortlessly and precisely the goal of the movement can be achieved. Motion sequences become more economical and smoother, and the degree of fatigue is reduced.Improving coordination skills plays an important role in training of sports dancers. It is not only important to coordinate one’s own movements, which is often difficult enough, but coordinating the bodies of the two in the DSC is a far greater task. Only when both bodies move in harmony good dancing is possible. Having in mind the results of the DanceSport Competitions (DSCn) in the discipline of Latin American Sport Dances (LASD), obtained as numerical values of the four main criteria (Technical Qualities, Movement to Music, Partnering Skills, and Choreography and Presentation) together with all sub-criteria and indicative qualities, training processes and methods for individual training periods can be expanded and modified at any time, in order to improve the coordination skills of the DSCs to obtain higher sports results and places at the upcoming DSCn.

Key words: DanceSport, DanceSport Coordination, Absolute Judging System, Judging Criteria, DanceSport Training Process.

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