4/9/2023 0 Comments The flow experience in dance![]() Of course it does not happen at once (or with 100% success rate) and need a certain (mental) warm-up period. I also don't think that experiencing flow itself guarantees perfect or great execution in an absolute sense (compared to others), but it helps to push one's own envelope.įor me, one of the most reliable ways to achieve flow state is by playing a challenging level in DDR. Social dancing is a bit different: it depends also on the partner and therefore a matter of luck, but it is definitely not harmful to be open to it. Of course not with 100% reliability, but searching for it definitely helps. Similarly, it is possible to achieve flow in a lot of tasks by just choosing the right task and simply contentrating on it. And the success rate increases with practice. You can get into a meditative state if you practiced a lot. If the challenge is too low, then we tend to get bored and thus distracted from what we are doing." - Sam Gill PhDī/8/flow-and-the-salsa-connection-part-10-of-11.aspxĮven if you think there is no merit in this idea please say why.Ĭlick to expand.This is a bit of overmystification, IMO. He found that flow is most likely to occur when we experience a challenge demanding our fullest concentration on our activity, but that if the challenge becomes too great, too much beyond our present skill level, we experience anxiety and may simply shut down. We’re not, in some part, standing beside ourselves commenting on our dancing as we are doing it rather we are wholly absorbed in our dancing.Ĭsikszentmihalyi found that an important factor in creating flow is the match between the challenge of our activity and our skill or ability. This simply means flow is experienced when we are aware only of our actions when we are in our moment when we are fully present to what we do. It makes us happy! Salsa dancing is fun.įlow occurs when there is a correspondence of action and awareness. ![]() Csikszentmihalyi believes that the experience of “flow” corresponds with the experience of happiness. What he was interested in was to identify how flow happens and what its significance is to our lives. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called this experience “flow” and, while this word is still used, many today may more likely call this experience “zone” or “being in the zone.” Csikszentmihalyi studied the phenomenon as experienced by rock climbers and surgeons among others. ![]() Before you know it several hours have passed and you can’t understand what happened to the time. You know that experience! You go out dancing and you may not even feel very motivated to dance then you hear the music and you get a partner and start dancing. "One of the many amazing things about salsa dancing is how it absorbs dancers into the dancing. Here is a experpt: (so you can skip any self promotion) Please post about any dances where you think you might have experience the "flow" discussed in the article. It would be great to hear from people who are just stumbling upon these ideas and to hear your thoughts and feelings on the topic. Admitedly it might (or might not) be less interesting to some of the more experienced dancers here as it's more or less a rehash mish-mash of topics already covered. ![]() After reading this article (linked below) agin and discussing the topic with a fellow SFer I thought it might be interesting to see what others think about the idea of "flow".
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