Dance is not a sport.
In sports, the objective is to win, to make the
audience feel artificial euphoria by some loose
connection to players that they'll never meet,
tossing a toy back and forth to accomplish
mindless objectives.
Dance, on the other hand, has nothing to do
with winning. Dance exists to heighten
emotion. Competitions and awards exist to urge
dancers to become the best they can be, and
the winner of a dance competition is simply the
most prepared person for the intended goal.
In sports, winning is the endgame. Players win
so they can win so they can win so men can
buy beer and congratulate each other for sitting
in front of a TV, cheering on athletes who are
paid vast sums of money to provide meaningless
entertainment that artificially heightens
emotion. I can't think of anything lower.
And dance is anything but low.
Jake Vander Ark - The Brandywine Prophet
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