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). 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. 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. 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. 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. The current study highlights individual differences in the joint articulation strategies used by novices practicing a hip-hop dance movement, the wave.

2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.1Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour-Donders Centre for Cognition Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Types of hip hop dance moves