Anxiety In Dance

Before any public or social performance any person will be affected in different ways depending of their confidence and capacity of managing their emotions. Every dancer needs to learn new choreographies in short periods of time to be able to perform in front of an audience. It is completely normal that any person experience stress or anxiety before a performance. These emotions affect the confidence of the person and could lead to affecting the quality of their performance. Dancers need to learn to control their emotions to be able to keep a healthy mind. Dancers need to work in their self confidence to be able to manage anxiety and stress. There are many emotions that can affect a dancer before a performance, like anxiety, stress, positive …show more content…
One of the most important qualities to be able to manage anxiety and stress are related to self confidence which give a person the self-belief to be able to confront any circumstance in a positive way. Anxiety is a feeling that produces negative thoughts that make a person feel sad, self-doubting, out of control and exposed. Uncontrollable anxiety and stress can cause psychological disorders like are anorexia, bulimia, OCD tendencies, depression, generalized anxiety disorders and even social anxiety disorder like …show more content…
If pressure affects the performance of a dancer then the dancer would not be able to display a performance according to the best of their abilities. This research showed scientific proof that every dancer will be affected by pressure before a performance. Said pressure would cause an emotional, mental and/or physical response, which in some cases might lead to not being able to display their abilities to their full potential. The variable that was to be recorded would be how many emotional, mental and/or physical responses were present in the dancers that executed a poor performance even though they perfectly knew how to execute their routines during regular practices without an