Abstract:

Traditional dances are an important carrier for the transmission of cultural traditions, community history, livelihoods and geographical information of societies through generations. They play an important role in the "cultural development" of society by contributing to the determination and transmission of cultural identity. At this point, the way traditional dances are presented to the masses gains serious importance. In today's professional dance life, where our traditional dances are shaped and staged with other elements of performing arts, it is important for folk dance performers and instructors to determine and explain in a descriptive way the relationship between stage performance anxiety and dance self-efficacy and self-confidence, which are frequently encountered in professional dance life. The sample of the research consists of 212 female and 162 male (n=374) Turkish folk dance dancers. In the study, in order to determine the dance self-efficacy status of folk dance performers, Tokinan, B. and Bilen. S. (2010), the one-factor "Self-Efficacy Assessment Form for Body Language and Dance" was used. "Self-Confidence Assessment Test" developed by Tokinan, B. (2008) was used to determine the dance self-confidence of folk dance dancers. "Çarkçı Ballet Undergraduate Students Performance Anxiety Scale" developed by Çarkçı, J. and Mercan, Ç. S. (2020) was used to measure the stage performance anxiety of folk dance dancers. As a result, it was concluded that there was a significant relationship between dance self-confidence, self-efficacy levels and dance performance anxiety of the dancers participating in the study, dance self-confidence had a negative and significant effect on dance performance anxiety, and dance self-efficacy had a negative and significant effect on dance performance anxiety.

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