MadamSamba
02-09-2004, 03:14 PM
Someone was telling me the other day that one of his older students who competes is always marked down in comps, despite being a fabulous dancer.
When he asked several judges who had blatantly marked him with fewer points than inferior, but younger dancers, he was told, point blank, that they had more of a future in dance because they were younger and therefore had a lot more to lose and needed the points to rise in the dance world more.
As someone who started dancing late in life and will eventually do comps, I was appalled. Has anyone else had this experience or does anyone know of similar situations? Is it changing? When is a dancer (in theory) too old to matter to judges? (grrrrrrrrrrrr)
When he asked several judges who had blatantly marked him with fewer points than inferior, but younger dancers, he was told, point blank, that they had more of a future in dance because they were younger and therefore had a lot more to lose and needed the points to rise in the dance world more.
As someone who started dancing late in life and will eventually do comps, I was appalled. Has anyone else had this experience or does anyone know of similar situations? Is it changing? When is a dancer (in theory) too old to matter to judges? (grrrrrrrrrrrr)