#THE FLOW EXPERIENCE IN DANCE PROFESSIONAL#

This piece looks at the dance between our Ego and our Consciousness. SONO: the dance between Ego and Consciousness The story of our Ego and our Consciousness. This collaboration led to the birth of SONO: a co-created performance that tells a story. I felt fully in my creative power.Ī videographer, Jeroen Berends, joined us and from that moment on, we met regularly to share what was most alive in our worlds. The more I moved, with presence and intention, the more I became one with the ground. I took a deep breath and started to Flow. The sound of the cello was magic but I did not know what to do my rational side was just so afraid of letting go. The week after, we met at their house and they started playing live music. I was surprised and despite my inner voices loudly pointing out that I was not an artist, I agreed. “This movement is so incredible,” said Ayla. The same methodology will be used for mediation analysis to test this hypothesis.It was a sunny day in 2020 when, during an Animal Flow Jam I had organized in Utrecht, The Netherlands, two musicians, Alberto Perez Jurado and Ayla Losada, approached me. Additionally, it is predicted that the number of hours of rehearsal and performances will be established as a mediating factor between the style of dance and mean flow scores. The effects of performance competency evaluations between the style of dance and mean flow scores were examined using mediation analysis and Sobel’s test.

The mean scores from the FSS-2 will be analyzed using a two-by-two factorial ANOVA to determine if modern dancers experience significantly higher levels of flow in performance with no effect across gender. Following the rehearsal or performance, the participant will complete the Event Experience Scale-2 (FSS-2).

A researcher will observe a rehearsal and a performance to evaluate each participant using the Performance Competency Evaluation Measure. Following the interview, they will complete the Activity Experience Scale – 2 (DFS-2). Each participant will be interviewed to determine their personal experiences of flow, if they have had any. This study will also analyze the relationship that the reported flow scores have with evaluations of performance competency.

#THE FLOW EXPERIENCE IN DANCE PROFESSIONAL#

These participants will be recruited from the professional companies based in the United States. Two hundred professional ballet and modern dancers (100M, 100F) will participate in this study. Additionally, it aims to address whether a dancer’s performance is perceived as being competent, and if the dancer’s experiences of the performance matches the levels of competency. This study aims to determine any facilitating and mediating factors of flow experiences in professional ballet and modern dancers. This is an important topic to research to further understand what factors facilitate or debilitate a professional dancer’s well-being. The study of performance quality and subjective experience of the dancer has not been studied within the dance movement analysis literature.

It is not well understood where and when professional dancers experience flow, and whether or not their subjective experience is correlated to what an audience evaluates in a dancer’s performance. A qualitative investigation is proposed to examine flow experiences in professional ballet modern dancers in order understand the nature of this psychological experience.

The flow experience in dance