Survey

For my survey I asked three questions to high school students: 1) Do you believe it is necessary for ballet companies to exploit against heavier dancers? 2) Do you think dance is important in society? and 3) Is dance important to you? The results did not shock me at all.

For question 1, i pretty much got a half yes and half no answer. I think this question is hard to answer. Saying no, you are saying that everyone needs a chance even if you're overweight, but then again, a dancer should be light on their feet and easy for a man to lift. So i think that most people were split on their answer and didn't initially know what to say, but thought about it and eventually went with the most arbitrary answer.

For question 2, the majority said no. most people, give little acclaim to dance. Dancing is just a past time that happens for them on occasion. As opposed to the more dedicated dancer who dances to express their feelings and enjoys it enough to make it an everyday part of life. This question lead up to the next question, where the answers directly corresponded with their answer to the previous question. For those who said no, dance is not important in society, they also said that dance was no t important to them, and vice versa. This does not surprise me because i don't know many people who are actually dedicated to dancing.

To conclude, i think the first question will help me out a lot in the next couple weeks. I can post on both sides of the exploitation. I can also see where both sides are coming from. Society has its limits, but so do certain things in dancing.