The purpose of this study is to clarify the structure and coaching philosophy that leaders should have in order to further advance the talents of young dancers in Japan. In order to achieve this goal, we carried out interview surveys of 3 expert dance instructors who are active in Japan. As a result of quantitative analysis of what they said regarding coaching philosophy, the following 4 points were revealed.
1. The most exceptional dance instructors believe in the absolute necessity of shaping the “dancing body” through exhaustive and constant training.
2. They believe in instruction that promotes the dancer’s better understanding of his or her own body and the expressiveness that it can convey-in other words, the necessity of shaping the dancer’s expressive body.
3. In order to elicit the dancer’s self-confidence and proficiency, They believe it is important to instill a sense of dedication toward coming to terms with one’s own body as a dancer's body.
4. They believe that it is important to instill an awareness of the dynamic nature of dance, in other words to take the view of cultivating a frame of mind that enables the dancer to self-correct (through feedback) his or her own body and expressions in an objective fashion, thereby eliciting guidance that inspires the dancer’s dynamic performance.
5. The coaching philosophy of an outstanding dance instructors consists of four components: the formation of a body capable of dancing, the formation of a body capable of expression, the breeding of dedication, and the breeding of dynamism. It was thought that the philosophy has a structure in which all of these components are not independent of each other but instead interact, like the intermeshing cogs of gears.
