Essay On Ballroom Dancing

Beginning in the ancient times dancing started out as a ritual used to express cultural stories and emotions. People used dancing to escape from the society and to lose one’s self in such a conveyed and emotional movement. In the American culture worshippers used this art to appeal to their god’s spirit, and through the movements they composed they entertained their cultural groups. All of dancing’s historical uses eventually lead to a form of dance known as ballet which then brought about plenty of other categories of dancing. This movement then became an exceedingly wide spread art. One country that brought about a very trendy dancing style was South Africa. In South Africa, their most popular type of dancing is ballroom dancing. The people of South Africa call their ballroom dancing, “dance sport.” The reason for this name is that here dance is really a sport and people compete doing ballroom dancing in the Olympics. Joel says in his book ,The South African Dictionary of Sport, that “Dancing has, for many years, been more than merely a recreation art [which many people around the world consider it to be], as there have been Area, National, and International competitions. Now that dancing has been included as

The arguments they have has led to a big debate question: “Is Dancing a Sport?” The truth is competitive dancing is actually a sport. People claim that dancing is just an art and a hobby; that is not true. Dancers are athletes, and some even say that dancers are the strongest of them all. When you think about it neither football players or soccer players would last in a long dance performance. I, myself being a dancer, acknowledge it as a sport no matter what others may think. How can you say cheerleading is a sport, but dancing isn’t? While there are people who deny dancers as athletes and nullify dancing as being a sport, there are innumerable ways to prove them