Dog dancing

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Dog dance is a dog sport that originated in the USA . In dog dancing, dogs and humans perform rhythmic movements to music .

The sport stems from obedience and, like this, is based on basic dog obedience and places high demands on humans and animals. Dogdance combines elements of obedience - such as very attentive "walking at foot" - with special tricks to create a dance-like, musically presented choreography . Typical tricks are, for example, leg slalom, walking backwards, side movements, turns, paw work, jumps over or through the handler's arms, running between the legs, doing males and polonaise. The dog is guided by the smallest body signals and verbal commands. Since dog dance has developed as an alternative to obedience competitions, which combine given movement elements, the term freestyle (free style) is common in English .

Dogdance includes aspects of human dance ( rhythm , synchronicity of movements, flowing change of direction) and includes elements that are borrowed from dressage , such as traversals or Spanish steps . The dance figures are danced by the human-dog team to the rhythm of the music, sometimes against each other, sometimes at a distance.

Tournaments

Levels and classes

There are dog dancing tournaments in different frameworks, up to international tournaments. A basic distinction is made in tournaments between fun classes and official classes. While there is no point evaluation and no comparison of the teams by the judges in the fun classes , the teams are placed in the official classes by a judge based on the number of points they have achieved. No reinforcement aids such as food, clickers or toys are permitted in the official classes . An evaluation in official classes takes place as soon as a starter has registered for these classes.

Fun classes are specified by the organizer, possible fun classes are:

  • Beginner
  • Open
  • Seniors
  • Handicap
  • trio
  • quartet
  • groups
  • Lucky Dip

At the Lucky Dip , the music is drawn for each team when the starting number is distributed and the performance essentially consists of elements of improvisation .

The official classes are:

  • class 1
  • 2nd grade
  • Class 3
  • Class seniors and handicap
  • trio
  • quartet
  • Class juniors

rating

There is a scheme for evaluating the demonstration, which is specified in the rules. The maximum number of points is 200 points. These are divided into an artistic and a technical note and are composed as follows:

Artistic grade (maximum 100 points):

  • Teamwork (charisma human, charisma & motivation dog, cooperation)
  • Dynamics (dance expression, rhythm, musical interpretation)
  • Concept (choice of music, idea, implementation)
  • Choreography (construction, structure, ring utilization, balance, positioning)

Technical grade (maximum 100 points):

  • Flow (flow, transition, combinations)
  • Execution (accuracy, signaling, constancy)
  • Content (elements & combinations, tricks & movements, variation)
  • Difficulty level (elements, combinations, interaction)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Regulations 2013 Dogdance International p. 4 (see under web links )
  2. ↑ Regulations 2013 Dogdance International p. 5

literature

  • Inka Burow, Denise Nardelli: Dogdance: From the first step to the complete choreography. Cadmos, 2010, ISBN 3861277735

Web links