The purposes of the present research were to identify the possible influence of intrinsic and/or extrinsic approaches on folk dance performance through detecting differences between three dancing ability groups: high dance performance (H, N=31) medium dance performance (M, N=14) and low dance performance (L, N=34). Three independent judges evaluated the dance performances of four specific folk dance steps throughout choreography. For group of orientation profiles definition, taxonomic analysis by K-means clustering was applied. In the repeated clustering, three groups of subjects were formed and intrinsic orientation was dominated. Low values of the extrinsic orientations were established. The results obtained (one-way MANOVA with the post-hoc Tukey's test) indicate significant differences for task (intrinsic) orientation in the group of high dance performance subjects in advantage for the low dance performance group. Intrinsic orientated subjects seem to provide a crucial element for the higher level of dance performance.

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