Comparativo Sobre o Grau de Agilidade entre Bailarinos das Modalidades Street Dance e Jazz

Abstract

Comparative about the degree of agility between dancers ofthe modalities of Street Dance and JazzThe study objective was to compare the degree of agility in dancers of Jazz modality and dancers of Street Dance, of both sexes, with ages between 12 and 18 years, dance practitioners in Itajaí academies. The studyis characterized as a descriptive research. The institutions surveyed were two dance academies in the city of Itajaí SC, one with a modality of Jazz and other with Street Dance. The study population represents a sample of n = 20 students. For data collection were performed two tasks: was applied a questionnaire validated by Cortes to evaluate the profile of the subjects and the Test of Shuttle Run to evaluate the agility. Were used in the descriptive analysis the test "t" Student for independent samples and the x2 = chi -square test of independence: (partition: l x c). The test showed significant differences between the group of Jazz in their average age. In the analyze of agility, the test showed significant differences between the two modalities of dance, demonstrating less time in the agility test of Street Dance dancers with a difference of 8,93% in relation to Jazz dancers.