Competitive Dance Persuasive Essay

It’s pitch black, surrounded by curtains and nervous bodies, the only light seen flickers as dancers leap back and forth between them. I step into the wings and take a deep breath, ignoring the fact that my bladder is screaming at me. The dancers exit the stage before me, which takes what seems like an eternity, and the MC announces; “ up next we have Kendra and Frank performing number 639 Love Hate Thing.” The crowd claps as the young dancers and family members of Caledonia Dance Company scream and cheer as we enter the beam of blinding lights directed straight at our faces. I stand patiently waiting for my music to start, holding the fake cell phone I use as a prop, worried that everyone can see the nervous sweat running down my face. Our …show more content…
Competitive dancers take months upon months into preparation for a competition, and we don’t realize all it has affected us. My intention is to find out how much dancing competitively can change a dancers life and what it takes to keep up in the harsh world of dance. The question smokes in some aspiring dancer’s minds; what is competitive dance and should I or should I not participate? I have been dancing for thirteen years now, but I just came into the competitive world about five or six years ago. There is a huge difference between recreational and competitive dance and the dancers. The second a dancer gets off stage from competing for the first time, something clicks in their head, and a whole new mentality is started. Competitive dancers dance on a whole different level, you're no longer dancing just to dance, you are dancing to win. As bad as that sentence may sound, it’s true. Every dancer competes to win. It’s a huge disappointment when you don't win or don’t get platinum; and it’s the best feeling when you receive platinum and place in overalls. When the mentality of a dancer changes into competition mode, they get mean. They are there to win and they are going to make sure you know it.