The sports dancer’s body, either in standard dancing or Latin dance, seems to float, glide effortlessly with an exquisite grace on the dance floor, as if permanently defying the laws of equilibrium, of forces and motion mechanisms. Nothing, however, deviates from some universal laws and rules, the virtuosity of execution being due to the very knowledge, respect and their use. It is important to analyze the dancer’s motion from a general to a particular perspective, in order to understand how he moves, how he uses strength and gravity, the inertia, how the dancer can keep his balance in individual and couple turns. The motion convention determines in dancing, as in every sport, an integrative convergence of scientific interests in order to explain the phenomenon. It is known that every motion performance, in every sport, is based on motion guided by biomechanical laws. From a general point of view, dance biomechanics encloses: - Static studies – positions and equilibrium conditions of forces acting on the dancers’ bodies; - Dynamic studies – the cause of motion, internal forces; - Kinematic studies- development process of dance moves; Biomechanical knowledge helps dancing to study and fathom technical motion.
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