Title
Designing for Ballet Classes: Identifying and Mitigating Communication Challenges Between Dancers and Teachers
Abstract
Dancer-teacher communication in a ballet class can be challenging: ballet is one of the most complex forms of movements, and learning happens through multi-faceted interactions with studio tools (mirror, barre, and floor) and the teacher. We conducted an interview-based qualitative study with seven ballet teachers and six dancers followed by an open-coded analysis to explore the communication challenges that arise while teaching and learning in the ballet studio. We identified key communication issues, including adapting to multi-level dancer expertise, transmitting and realigning development goals, providing personalized corrections and feedback, maintaining the state of flow, and communicating how to properly use tools in the environment. We discuss design implications for crafting technological interventions aimed at mitigating these communication challenges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3322276.3322312
Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
ballet education, ballet technology, challenges, feedback
Psychological intervention,Ballet,Studio,Engineering,Qualitative research,Multimedia,Communication issues
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5850-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Milka Trajkova112.08
Francesco Cafaro2629.96
Lynn Dombrowski311310.45