The Development Of The Dancesport Competition System

Sport Dance is a cooperative activity that usually involves a male and female dance partners, forming a couple(or a team of couples), using a common artistic technique to show a high level of different styles of dance performances. Since its introduction in our country in the 1980’s Sport Dance has been flourishing; but seen as a whole, our dancers or even the entire Asian dancer’s skills seem to be left behind those of the America and Europe counterparts. This work is a contribution to make our Sport Dance grow, in the hope that our country can reach the world’s highest level in Sport Dancing.Between October 2009 and June 2014, I took part in numerous Dance Sport competitions led by the faculty in the Dance Sport Department of the Art College in the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. After five years of continuous practice I have found that Sport Dance scoring by using a pen and score sheets can be troublesome, especially when it involves the assessment of many dancers. The manual tabulation is usually slow, time-consuming,unappealing and inaccurate; therefore it is necessary to take advantage of the benefits of the computer technology to develop a Sport Dance competition scoring application. Furthermore,by using previous literature, practical skills, and video observations this work also shows a comparative analysis of Sport Dance competitions, discussing its essential characteristics:resistance, fairness and overall viewing; along with the personality characteristics and the Sport Dance competition strict regulations. This works also analyzes the main factors that affect Sport Dance competition: referees, players, scoring methods, and others; explains the principles of the Sport Dance competition scoring system and presents a framework of an innovative scoring system for Sport Dance competitions. The specific operational procedures of this innovative scoring system are explained in order to optimize the standardization of Sport Dance competitions.Research ideas in this work can be summarized as "a main line", "two hypothesis","three steps" and “four dimension analysis". By a main line, it intends to reach a consensus in our Sport Dance standards, in line with the completeness, efficiency, steadiness, and practice of the international Sport Dance systems. Adhering to the two hypotheses that Sport Dance competition scoring systems should be easy to use, standardize, open, scalable, high reliableand secure, people will accept it and control it. In addition, this scoring system will allow Sport Dance competition to be more standardized, by practicing three steps, through the use of a scoring system designed from a planned framework, with a practical use and an improvement of the final measures.In this work there are three major innovations. An innovation perspective to Sport Dance competition scoring. Research and innovation, by establishing an easy to use, standardize,open, scalable, high reliable and secure, Sport Dance competition scoring software.Innovative research methods, from the theory and practice of Sport Dance scoring system till its design and practical operation. This study will need more attention to practical action to verify the results and establish the scoring system in an operational way.