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Athletes or Artists?
By Barry Gasson
The competitive dance floors of the world have become battlefields where strenuous exertion is apparent in most couples, and young men seem to think that it should look difficult and you should appear to be trying and striving. So ask yourself these questions: Are you and artist or an athlete? What is the difference? Does it matter?
To be an Adjudicator
Anthony Hurley discusses the process of adjudicating to give insight to how it might be done.
Adjudicator’s issues
By Leonid Pletnev
I made up my mind to write this series dictated by time, according to my own convictions of the necessity to express my opinion and at numerous desires of my friends and like-minded persons, those who are not indifferent to their own fate, the fate of their children, of our dance world on the whole.
Being a “winner” is not necessary to win
By Maximiliaan Winkelhuis
Over the last 17 years I have tested many dancers on the Maslow Hierarchy of Need-scale and the results are quite stimulating. When we only look at the dozens of world champions in the research you might expect that they possess the will to win more dominantly. This is not the case.
Thoughts on Objective Judging
By Fred Bijster
To limit the judging of any performance to the objective and (by definition) rigid elements only would be an insult to the performer and disallow development in dancing. Apart from the pure fact that judging is done by means of our senses, in itself very subjective instruments to measure anything at all.
On the reasons for Ballroom Dancing
Never forget that ballroom dancing was for many people on the floor, not the few, and anti-clockwise and parallel to the walls was the important and mandatory direction! Says Peter Eggleton
Psychology of Training and Competitions
Comparing Dance and motorsport, is that possible? Mihail Radchenko talks about autopilot and psychomotor reactions
Competition is bad for Motivation
Justin Coulson argues that competition can remove the motivation to enjoy the learning process, transferring it instead to other aspects such as the desire to win, damaging long-term commitment in the process.
Blocked by Performance Anxiety?
Information and advice for dealing with performance anxiety. By David Carbonell
How to Win Blackpool
By Anne Gleave In 2009 I was asked to lecture at the British National Congress with a title,…