Accelerometer based performance assessment of basic routines in classical ballet
- Abstract Classical ballet requires dancers to exercise significant muscle control and strength both while stationary and when moving. Following the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) syllabus, 8 male and 27 female dancers (aged 20.2 + 1.9 yr) in a full-time university undergraduate dance training program were asked to stand in first position for 10 seconds and then perform 10 repeats of a demi-plié exercise to a counted rhythm. Accelerometer records from the wrist, sacrum, knee and ankle were compared with the numerical scores from a professional dance instructor. The sacrum mounted sensor detected lateral tilts of the torso in dances with lower scores (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient r = -0.64, p < 0.005). The 5RMS6 acceleration amplitude of wrist mounted sensor was linearly correlated to the movement scores (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient r = 0.63, p < 0.005). The application of sacrum and wrist mounted sensors for biofeedback during dance training is a realistic, low cost option.
Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
Author: | David V. Thiel, Julian Quandt, Sarah J. L. Carter, Gene Moyle |
Parent Title (English): | Procedia Engineering |
Volume: | 72 |
First Page: | 14 |
Last Page: | 19 |
ISSN: | 1877-7058 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-12030 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2014.06.006 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2014/06/19 |
Copyright: | Crown Copyright © 2014, open access under CC BY-NC-ND license |
Note: | The 2014 conference of the International Sports Engineering Association |
Keyword: | accelerometer; classical dance; demi-plié; first position; sway |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften und Kommunikation |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 790 Freizeitgestaltung, darstellende Künste, Sport | |
Entry in this database: | 2015/04/02 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 |