PROFILE OF THE VERTICAL IMPULSION OF DANCERS PARTICIPANTS OF THE FESTIVAL OF DANCE OF JOINVILLE / SC

Abstract

Along the course of humanity's socio-cultural development, dance has always been present, being the reason why people are still reluctant to show not want to relate it to the term physical activity, which certainly is related to Physical Education. Objective: Conduct a process of diagnostic evaluation on the vertical profile of the push of dancers from different regions and countries, which were participants of the Joinvile's Dance Festival, annually held in the city of Joinville, in Santa Catarina/BR. Methods: The sample consisted of 362 dancers from different regions. For data collection, in addition to body weight and height, was used to test Jump platform with the realization of the movement called Sauté (jump) "en dehors/outside" and “en dedans/inside” in the 1st position. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics through SPSS 11.2. Results: Of the 362 dancers, 82 (22.65%) were males with average age 17.96 ± 4.24 and 280 (77.35%) females with a mean age of 15.62 ± 3.86. The average overall thrust between jumps was 25.12 to 25.19 cm while for men the average was 31.03 to 31.63 * for women and 23.39 to 23.31 cm. * Significant value for the group between male and between genders. Conclusions: From the analysis of data could be determined that although perform the same gesture, the male group showed statistically significant differences in relation to female group. In the male group was still possible to see that there are differences between the sauté (jump) "en dehors/outside" and “en dedans/inside”.