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Leelo Keevallik
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Decomposing movement in dance instruction
1. Introduction
Some types of human mobility necessitate formal teaching in order to
achieve quality. Skills such as driving, diving and dancing generally fall into
this category of activities, while walking and sitting in an aircraft generally
do not. Practices of teaching a mobile activity have to adapt to the fact that
the essential actions are carried out on the move, in real time. That implies
not only coordinated movement by the teacher and the student but also in-
structing in a timed manner, such as prompting and correcting at right
moments. Past and future are ...