In ballet, the dancers make it look easy and graceful. What people do not know is just how much work goes into becoming a prima ballerina. These athletes are working incredibly hard and suffering through the pain. It isn’t easy to stand on your toes everyday. Dance is a sport because it involves competition, is a workout, and it’s a physical and emotional challenge.
First of all, the definition of an sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment. Dance is meeting all of these things. Especially the competition part. The dancers are preparing for sometimes only a few days to go off and compete against friends for medals and trophies. It’s not much
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Brooklyn Mack, a professional dancer states that, “All that choreography, thousands of steps and painstaking timing and precision – not to mention the ability to convey so much emotion, without saying a word – makes being a ballet dancer a challenging career. But the payoff, he says, is immense.” Normal people can go to a gym to get a “workout” but dance is so much more. Yes, it is still a workout as previously stated but they also have to train their mind. People are dancing for pleasure. It is fun for them and it is what most of their lives are about. If dancers only knew the steps but not the mindset, dance would be entirely different. The performance would not have any emotion. Belladivadance.com make the point that “An expressive dancer has more than one expression. Depending on the style of your dance, you may wish to convey several different emotions to the audience. The emotions and expressions you try to convey through your facial expressions should be determined by tone and genre.” Dancers need to get into the state of mind of their character. It can be hard. If they are a generally happy person, too bad. They are now playing a dying person. It takes more than just stamina to be a dancer, which is why it is a physical and emotional