Somatic and Motor Criteria of Selection to Ballet School

On the basis of somatic and motor abilities diagnosis of 11 year old girls, students of ballet school and control group an attempt to determine selection criteria was made. With the use of U-Mann Whitney test battery, differentiating ballet and control groups in the highest degree, was extracted. It included following variables: body mass, sense of rhythm and balance. The dispersions of these variables registered in ballet school girls were the basis for the determination of general criteria of selection to ballet school.