Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.
People dance at any age.
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.