Is Dance A Sport Or An Art Form?

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Is dance a sport or an art form? A question either you have been asked or maybe you asked someone yourself. While dance is a physical activity, you don’t have to compete. Dance is a way of expressing emotions and telling a story, but it’s more physically demanding than other forms of expression. So, we’re giving our opinion today! We reached out to our dance community to find out their thoughts.

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1. You definitely need both for dance 🙌❤️❤️

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2. I think it’s different for everyone and comes down to why someone dances ❤️

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3. Definitely takes an artist to perform the athletic feat required in dance ❤️ so both!

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4. Both because you need artistry & stamina 🙌

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5. It's an art that takes an athlete to perform.

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6. Absolutely both. It takes strength, stamina and training to do the movements but it takes art to make them truly beautiful.

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7. Both sport because it requires athleticism and art form because you are experiencing and expressing your feelings through it.

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8. Dancers are athletes and take their athleticism beyond performance to artistic. Sports Athletes are judged at a physical performance and dancers are judged on both athletic performance as well as emotional artist performance.

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9. It is definitely both. It takes the strength of a skilled form of sport to do the moves or pointe to dance and the strength to do the art form of dancing to show the skills and grace of a dancer.

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10. Both because it is impossible to do well without the strength of an athlete and the grace and elegance of a brush and on a canvas.

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11. Both because dancers train hours and hours and many days weekly, monthly and yearly. It is a sport because it involves so many muscles that other athletes don’t even use or if they do they don’t use them right. It’s also an art form because it is a form of telling a story or expressing how someone or something is. 

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All of these are awesome answers! What are your thoughts, is dance a sport or an art form? And shoutout to our amazing community for helping contribute to this article:

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@kayla1212_dancer

@aspenlovesballet

@sophie_honey_ballerina

@pilar.s.ballerina

@emzdance_

@little.bun.head

@littlelucyadancer

@edinburgh.ballet.theatre

@laurawashereig

@packarddonna

@sandradancer63

Stephen CW

Susan Cronan Picou

Lexi Zelensky

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By: AJ (Intern)