Características y comparaciones morfológicas en las bailarinas de ballet de los diferentes niveles del Conservatorio “José María Rodríguez” de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The bodily forms and morphological differences of ballet dancers leads to having a critical, technical and corporal appearance that is a fundamental part of their artistic performance, so an investigation is proposed with the aim of determining the Morphological characteristics and comparisons in the Ballerinas Ballet of the different levels of the Conservatory "José María Rodríguez" of the City of Cuenca. To determine the body shape of the dancers, a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out, for the measurements following the internationally validated anthropometric protocol of “ISAK” and the Heath - Carter somatotype method was used. The statistical analysis was performed using Excel and the statistical program SPSS in its version 20 for Windows. 49 female ballet student dancers with an age range between 11 and 19 years old were studied anthropometrically, predominantly the age group of 14 to 16 years with 27 dancers, the educational level with the highest proportion of dancers was the average level with 19. The highest mean BMI was that of the upper level 20.77 ± 2.32 kg / m2, the CCI was similar in all the groups evaluated 0.76 ± 0.3cm, the IEQ was higher in the middle level 101, 96 ± 11.25cm, similar to the relative E 102.77 ± 5.04cm, the highest percentage of fat was observed in high school 18.04 ± 2.78cm and the muscular percentage in the upper level 16.11 ± 1, 24cm An endomesomorph predominance was observed for the middle, upper and high school levels.