What Does It Really Mean To Be A Dancer?

What does it really mean to be a dancer? Anna Pavlova, Misty Copeland and Mikhail Fokin are just prominent examples of real dancers. For decades the only way to become a professional dancer was to be a ballerina and stand in a corps de ballet. Also taking the alternate route to do the impossible and be a principal dancer, which is better known as a prima ballerina. However in today’s society more jobs have been recently presented for dancers such as being a commercial dancer. The dance world is opening up but it still seems that most of society is fighting it. Schools like to give the impression that they give students the opportunity to learn every possible job field they could go into. Yet most schools cannot teach many kids contact sports
Most people do not get the chance to travel in their prime because it is too expensive or they will miss out on job opportunities. When in a dance company all travel expenses are paid by almost all companies, also pay opportunities are not missed out on because the job is the reason for traveling. In dance, Australia’s article on pros and cons of dancing they state “Touring with a dance company is a great way to see the world. Not only are your airfares and accommodation paid for, but also a daily ‘per diem’ caters for food and transport.”. Many young dancers get into dancing for the chance to discover new things, what is never realized is most discover more than imaginable. They make discoveries about new styles of dance, traditions societies use around the world that involves dance in ways that can’t be taught in a class. Most companies try to discover unique places, but the traditional of big-name cities are still well traveled. The same article for “Dance Australia” talks about the idea that dancers have the most fun at the places they never even thought would be fun. Traveling is perceived as great all over yet that is not the main reason most fall in love with dance, it is mostly the fact that it gives dancers a way to connect their brain to their body and connect to the emotions being
When dancers dance they don’t always realize the way their brain is training their muscles to do what they would like. Harvard neuroscience speaks to the findings on a PET scan that talks how dance develops thing such as the motor cortex which helps planning and control. In dance, especially ballet, the person dancing needs to have total control of their body and nothing less so always having the control over one’s own body they are training their motor cortex to always have control and it helps apply that to other