Recontextualizing dance skills: Overcoming impediments to motor learning and expressivity in ballet dancers

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Karin, Janet ^a,b,c  

^a Australian Ballet School   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ballet; Dance; Imagery; Implicit learning; Motor control; Na ve beliefs; Neuromotor; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963706075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00431     Document Type: Article

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