Older dancers don't count?

[MadamSamba]

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)

 

[Vince A]

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)

I've never heard of such a thing . . .

Unless you put yourself in that 'spot.' I did once, for the hell of it. I signed up in WCS against all young kids . . . 27 of them . . . and took a fourth, which is not bad for someone who was in their fifties!

A dancer is too old to compete when he/she is permanently committed to a wheelchair . . . then it's time for lap dances :roll:

 

[danceslave]

LMAO.. Vince A hella funny

MadamSamba: sad thing is that's the way it is with a lot of other things in our environment....there's always some kind of discrimination going on with 'justification' or a 'reason' for it...sad