Creativity and emergence of specific dance movements using instructional constraints.

Torrents, Carlota; Ric, Ángel; Hristovski, Robert

doi:10.1037/a0038706

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“…The shots related to creativity and variability behaviors (situational and special strokes) appear more often in MC. MC seems to encourage the concept of affordance with problem solving through creativity and the theory of "repetition without repetition" that is promoted in the educational context (Hastie et al, 2017;Farias et al, 2019) and in other sports (Torrens et al, 2015). These results should be interpreted with caution because the total percentage of situational and special strokes is not very high (10.45%).…”

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Effect of Modification Rules in Competition on Technical–Tactical Action in Young Tennis Players (Under-10)

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Adapting competitions to young players' characteristics is an important pillar in the optimal teaching-learning process. The objective of the present study is to analyze the effect of modifying net height (from 0.91 to 0.80 m) and court dimensions (from 23.77 × 8.23 m to 18 × 8.23 m) for under-10 (U-10) tennis players on the following: (a) kinds of technical and tactical basic, situational, and special strokes; (b) tennis players' hitting area; (c) landing location of the serve; (d) ball landing location after the serve; (d) stroke effectiveness; and (e) rally length. The study design was quasiexperimental in nature, observing the fluctuation/change in technical-tactical variables of the tennis players when playing a "Tennis 10s Green Competition" (GC) with the current federative rules and a redesigned competition "Modified Competition" (MC) including altered net height and court dimensions based on small-sided games (SSGs) and equipment scaling. Twenty U-10 tennis players were studied (age of players = 9.46 ± 0.66 years, average weekly training in tennis = 2.90 ± 1.07 h, years of experience = 3.65 ± 1.53 years). The results showed that in MC, there was a greater technical-tactical variability compared with the GC in terms of the following: (a) greater service effectiveness; (b) more situational and special strokes; and (c) a more equitable change in the distribution of hitting and ball landing locations. The values of MC showed that the current adaptation rules and equipment in federated U-10 competitions might not be enough to improve the teaching-learning process under the comprehensive approach. The current competition for U-10 tennis players (stage green) should be redesigned, in order to build an optimal process of affordances to develop a multidimensional positive impact during this training stage.

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“…The contribution of this study to psychological literature rests in part on taking into account the diversity of contemporary improvised performance practice, and these findings can be enriched or informed by similar studies of improvisation in other musical contexts. It would be valuable to extend the understanding of collaborative creative practice emerging here to generative social behaviors in other non---verbal contexts such as team sports, improvised dance (Torrents Martín, Ric, & Hristovski, 2015), the interaction of young children (Sowden, Clements, Redlich, & Lewis, 2015), or music therapy for communication difficulties. Our findings highlight that the dyad, more commonly investigated in this literature, is not enough to consider how improvisation works overall.…”

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The construction of meaning within free improvising groups: A qualitative psychological investigation.

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MacDonald²

2017

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Improvisation represents a unique process of social creativity in real time, practiced in widely varying musical contexts with different levels of experience. Yet psychologist have mostly studied the practices of individual jazz soloists with an expectation that shared understanding, knowledge and technical abilities are a prerequisite for group improvising. A qualitative study interviewed six trios of free improvisers (n=18) to illuminate the processes of shared musical improvisation across a range of contemporary artistic practice. Comparison of different members' accounts of events during recorded free improvisations indicated that their understandings of who did what and why converged at some points, notably during relative stasis, and diverged at others. Improvisers anticipated and interpreted musical behaviors of their collaborators with reference to previous shared social or musical experience, but considered that such expectations could, and should, be confounded. Familiarity between improvisers could be seen as helpful in building trust within dynamic and highly uncertain musical contexts, and in allowing a less conscious approach to interaction. Improvisers individually assumed that their group shared certain tastes and asserted that others recognized certain musical material as connected to previous practice together. These ideas of shared tastes and practices could best be understood as constructions within this particular social context, since they were not necessarily consistent across the ensemble. The findings emphasize the fundamentally social nature of improvising: shared understanding is not a prerequisite for participation, but shared experience over time enriches the resources of meaning an individual can bring to their interaction in an improvising group.

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“…Exploratory behaviour is defined as the variety and quantity of responses performed by the children, considering the characteristics of the actions and all of their possible combinations. In previous research, this measure has been used to study the variety of the responses of dancers (Torrents et al, 2015) or soccer players when modifying task constraints. The aim of this study was to evaluate if diverse types of play equipment differentially constraint the exploratory behaviour in preschoolers when playing freely.…”

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Complex Systems in Sport, International Congress: Linking Theory and Practice

2017

Complex Systems in Sport, International Congress: Linking Theory and Practice

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Collective sports comprise of cooperative and competitive organizational processes in which players have to be predictable for teammates and sufficiently diverse and unpredictable for opponents in order to satisfy the goal constraints. In highly stable, repetitive and thus predictable (cooperative or non-cooperative) environments the adaptive system may converge to a minimum unpredictability by minimizing the diversity of accessible patterns of functional behaviour. However, sport competition, akin to life itself, is not a highly stable and repetitive process based on negotiating stable environment. It creates conditions where highly demanding non-cooperative behaviour of the environment is rather rule than an exception. In such stochastically changing and non-cooperative environments, systems (players and teams) must develop high behavioural unpredictability potential to increase their fitness to the competitive environment. This means that the adaptation process rests on a tendency of permanent increase of the unpredictability potential which affords the ultimate goal, the survival (winning) of the system in sports environments. This state of affairs suggests that performance may be conceptualized in terms of unpredictability/diversity potential and that its development can be understood by the juxtaposition of three principles of adaptive systems: (a) relativity of organism-environment unpredictability; (b) satisficing diversity/unpredictability potential; and (c) tendency towards non-decreasing unpredictability/diversity. (a) Relativity of organism-environment unpredictability: Collective sports adaptation is a process of becoming fit to one's environment. Becoming fit means that the environment becomes more informative and less constraining for the player/ team and, on the other hand, the player/team becomes less informative, and thus more unpredictable for the environment. The relativity of organism-environment unpredictability is based on the conservation of bio-motor information principle (Hristovski, 1989). This principle says that performance variables, including motor abilities (effectivities), such as power, agility, speed, strength, endurance, etc., may be treated as entropy measures forming a state space in which training induces conversion of entropy into information. By increasing the effectivities,

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Creativity and emergence of specific dance movements using instructional constraints.

Cited by 67 publications

References 47 publications

Effect of Modification Rules in Competition on Technical–Tactical Action in Young Tennis Players (Under-10)

Effect of Modification Rules in Competition on Technical–Tactical Action in Young Tennis Players (Under-10)

The construction of meaning within free improvising groups: A qualitative psychological investigation.

Complex Systems in Sport, International Congress: Linking Theory and Practice

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