{"pk":25740,"title":"Deliberate Practice Revisited: Complexity and Creativity in the Practice Process in\nBreakdance","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This study investigated the longitudinal process of practice\nby an expert dancer in breakdance. We examined the ability\nof the concept of “deliberate practice” (Ericsson, Krampe, &\nTesch-Römer, 1993) to provide a full account of the practice\nprocess of an expert dancer. We conducted a fieldwork study\nto observe the practice of expert dancers under natural\nconditions, and analyzed data gathered from video and\ninterviews for the progress of a dancer’s proficiency at a\nparticular skill with respect to the following three points:\nnumber of rotations in the skill, contents of the skill, and\npurposes of the skill practices. Results indicated that the\npractice process involved not only refining the quality of the\nskill, but also two other activities: the exploration of new and\noriginal skills utilizing the characteristics of that skill, and\nchoreographing that skill so that it could fit into his full\nperformance. The practice process of experts is a complicated\nand creative one, which cannot be sufficiently explained by\nthe concept of “deliberate practice” alone","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"breakdance; deliberate practice; skill acquisition\nand learning; creativity; fieldwork"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r13s296","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Daichi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shimizu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tokyo","department":""},{"first_name":"Takeshi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Okada","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tokyo","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25740/galley/15364/download/"}]}