Marking essentially involves a run-through of the dance routine, but with a focus on the routine itself, rather than making the perfect movements.
To investigate how marking influences
performance, the researchers asked a group of talented dance students to learn
two routines: they were asked to practice one routine at performance speed and
to practice the other one by marking.
Across many of the different techniques and steps, the dancers were judged more highly on the routine that they had practiced with marking - their movements on the marked routine appeared to be more seamless, their sequences more fluid.
While marking is often thought of as a necessary evil - allowing dancers a break from dancing full out - the large effect sizes observed in the study suggest that it could make a noticeable difference in a dancers performance:
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