I have often written about how social media and web 2.0 is so beneficial to dancers but I came across this article discussing how its actually pushing dancers to imitate dangerous moves and end up inured!
Well, my instant reaction was 'How awful", I would hate it if dancers became injured because they were copying moves. Also, yes there can sometimes be alot of focus on making the body do "unnatural" things i.e. over split, sway backs! However, deeming it unnatural also could have many negative effects on younger dancers, some bodies are made to do certain things and others aren't but saying its unnatural may cause a dancer to be ashamed of their body!
Furthermore, who gives anyone the right to deem anything wrong when it comes to dance. Dance is an art and therefore subjective. Its bad teaching if children are being told to dance through pain, not bad social media.
On the other hand, I do agree that social media has allowed a floodgate of "showing off" and this can cause unhealthy competetion.
At the end of the day, a dancer should be taught the fundamental lessons of not dancing in pain and not over doing it!
This is just a brief over view of my thoughts. Please comment what you think about this!
Thanks Anthony - interesting take on how social media might influence others - and not in a good way for professional practice.
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