A study on agility of Chhau dancers

Abstract

Chhau dance is one of the famous traditional dances of India where fitness plays a vital role. Among the fitness components, agility plays a very important role in the skillful performance of this dance. The objective of the study was to compare the agility of the Chhau dancers of different age groups. For the purpose of the study sixty Chhau dancers were selected purposively from Purulia, West Bengal, India as the subjects for the study. They were also purposively divided into three age groups- Group one (G-1) 18 to 27 years (n-20), group two (G-2) 28 to 37 years (n-20) and group three (G-3) 38 to 47 years (n-20). Agility was selected as the variables for the study. 4x10 yard shuttle run tests was used to measure the agility of selected three different age group Chhau dancers. To compute the data, descriptive statistics, Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and LSD post-hoc-test were used. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels. The result revealed that there was significant difference (F-15.312) on agility among the three selected Chhau dancer groups. The result also revealed that the G-1 group Chhau dancers were better than the G-2 group Chhau dancers (MD-0.587) and G-3 group Chhau dancers (MD-(0.902). On the basis of the result it was concluded that there was significant difference on agility among the selected three different Chhau dancer groups.