THE ROLE OF COORDINATION COMPETENCIES IN SHAPING SPATIAL FORM AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSIVENESS IN DANCESPORT

Contemporary DanceSport is characterized by increasing complexity of competitive choreography, requiring athletes to integrate physical, technical, artistic, and psychological preparation. Coordination abilities act as a system-forming factor, ensuring spatial precision, rhythmic synchronization, and artistic expressiveness. The study aimed to analyze the role of coordination abilities in improving technical mastery of DanceSport athletes aged 14-15 during the stage of specialized basic training (OPEN class level). A comprehensive review of scientific and methodological sources was conducted, alongside qualitative monitoring of Wind-Up–Drive–Rise phases, body arc trajectories, head movement control, and rhythmic synchronization with musical phrasing. Biomechanical analysis was applied to evaluate sensorimotor integration, muscular control, kinematic parameters, and energy efficiency. Coordination abilities were identified as a complex of sensorimotor qualities encompassing spatial orientation, rhythmic coordination, differentiation of motor parameters, switching of motor programs, pair synchronization, and posture stabilization. Their development ensures technical precision, spatial clarity, and aesthetic completeness. Biomechanical foundations of coordination – sensorimotor integration, muscular control, kinematic regulation, and energy economy – form a unified system that enhances mastery while minimizing injury risk. Coordination abilities are decisive for achieving high results in DanceSport. Their systematic development creates prerequisites for athletes’ competitiveness at the international level, ensuring stability, rhythmic perfection, and artistic expressiveness of performance.