The purpose of this study was to investigate the movement control patterns in the Korean dance. The conditions of wrist constraints were manipulated based on the concepts of constraints that Newell defined(1986). The first independent variable was wrist constraints experimentally manipulated into three conditions; bare hands, hands holding wood stick, hands holding wood stick and silk. The second independent variable was levels of the Korean dance skill; low and high. All 16 subjects of two different skill levels were required to perform the Korean dance movement in three wrist constraints, i.e., in a 2(skill levels)×3(wrist constraints)×2(movement phases) factorial design. End points of hands, wrist joints, elbow joints and shoulder joints of all subjects were marked, and these joint angles were cinematographically analyzed using digital video camera and KWON3D(version 3.0) motion analyzer. Angular changes of three joints were analyzed as a function of experimental conditions. Analyses of data revealed that: the changes of wrist joint angles differed significantly as skill levels; the changes of wrist and shoulder joint angles differed with the conditions of wrist constraints in addition to the interaction effect between skill levels and wrist constraints. It was concluded that the control patterns of upper body joints were affected by wrist constraints as well as by the skill levels. Also the skill levels affected distal segments while the wrist constraints affected proximal segments.