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Dance

Dance requires an equal amount of cognitive focus and abilities as well as physical strength. The demanding yet evolving art-form allows individuals to express themselves creatively through movement, while enabling them to adapt movement that possesses a rhythmical pattern and fluid motions that allure to an audience either onstage or on film. Dance is considered to be a very aesthetically pleasing art-form.

Analyzing growth and improvement in a dancer is reflected through specific pedagogical approaches used by their teachers and mentors. It is equally important to analyze methods of teaching. The use of imagery enables a dancer to facilitate correct alignment and technical abilities, enabling them to comprehend the foundation on a deeper level. Diverse forms of imagery for dancers include the following methods :


 * Kinesthetic Imagery - a non-verbal memory representation of comprehended kinaesthetically movement, which enable an individual to replicate a given movement.
 * Direct Imagery - a non-verbal representation of ways to emulate movement.

Competition
A dance competition is an organized event in which contestants perform dances before a judge or judges for awards, and in some cases, monetary prizes. There are several major types of dance competitions, distinguished primarily by the style or styles of dances performed. Major types of dance competitions include:

Dance competitions are an excellent space for dancers to build connections with industry leading faculty members, adjudicators, choreographers and other dancers from competing studios. A typical dance competition for younger pre-professional dancers can last between two to four days, depending whether it is a regional or national competition. The purpose of dance competitions is to provide a fun and educative place for dancers and give them the opportunity to perform their choreographed routines from their current dance season onstage. Often times, competitions will take place in a professional setting or may vary to non-performance spaces, such as a high school theatre.
 * Dancesport, which is focused exclusively on ballroom and latin dance.
 * Competitive dance, in which a variety of theater dance styles, such as acrobatics, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, lyrical, stepping, and tap, are permitted.
 * Commercial Dance, consisting of as hip hop, jazz, locking, popping, breakdancing, contemporary etc.
 * Single-style competitions, such as; highland dance, dance team, and Irish dance, that only permit a single dance style.
 * Open competitions, that permit a wide variety of dance styles. An example of this is the TV program So You Think You Can Dance.
 * Olympic, Dance has been trying to be part of the Olympic sport since 1930s.

The results of the dancers are then dictated by a credible panel of judges and are evaluated on their performance than given a score. As far as competitive categories go, most competitions base their categories according to the dance style, age, experience level and the number of dancers competing in the routine. While competition is meant to be a fun atmosphere, some argue that the actual competitive aspect may detract dancers from performing to their best abilities as their increased stress and anxiety levels correlate to a lack of focus and decrease of self-esteem. Those with a higher sense of ego orientation may ultimately struggle more with this than those who are considered to have a mastery orientation.

Televised Dance Competitions
There are numerous dance competition shows presented on television and other mass media outlets including, NBC's World Of Dance, NBC's Dancing With Myself, Dancing With The Stars, etc.

Health & Body Image
Dancers are publicly thought to be very preoccupied with their body image to fit a certain mold in the industry. Research indicates that dancers do have greater difficulty controlling their eating habits as a large quantity strive for the art-form's ideal body mass. Some dancers often resort to abusive tactics to maintain a certain image. Common scenarios include dancers abusing laxatives for weight control and end up falling into unhealthy eating disorders. Through data analysis, a large quantity of dancers use at least one method of weight control including over exercising and food restriction. The pressure for dancers to maintain a below average weight affects their eating and weight controlling behaviours and their life-style. Due to its artistic nature, dancers tend to have many hostile self-critical tendencies. Commonly seen in performers, it is likely that a variety of individuals may be resistant to concepts of self-compassion.

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders in dancers are publicly thought to be a recurring and common matter. Through data analysis and studies published, sufficient data regarding the percentage and accuracy dancers have of realistically falling into unhealthy disordered eating habits or the development of an eating disorder were extracted. It was revealed that dancers, in general, have a higher risk of suffering from eating disorders than the general public, primarily falling into anorexia nervosa and EDNOS. However, research has yet to distinguish a direct correlation to dancers having a higher risk of suffering from bulimia nervosa. Studies concluded that dancers overall have a three times higher risk of suffering from eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa and EDNOS.

TikTok
Dance has become a fundamental aspect of the popular app and a primary category influencing the youth's culture today. Dance challenges have become a popular form of content across many social media platforms including TikTok. During 2020, TikTok dances offered an escape for isolated individuals to play and connect with one another through a virtual format. With TikTok's easy accessibility to a variety of different filters and special effects made filming yourself dancing to music a fun and easy past time. Since its debut back in 2017, the app attracted a small but growing audience of professional dancers in their early 20 s to 30 s. While the majority of this demographic is more accustomed to performing onstage, this app introduced a new era of dancing onscreen.