Dance Prodigies

”You must have chaos within you to give rise to a dancing star.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing starts at a young age. Some dancer’s already have natural talents and others don’t and have to grow into the new customs. Musicality, technique, energy, emotion, flexibility, dedication, determination and memorization are just a few components that you may see in a young, aspiring dancer. The characteristics show the great potential of the dancer, setting them aside from their peers in a positive, look at me sort of way. Such talent does not come around all the time, so when a studio sees this type of talent being demonstrated by a young dancer they help shape them into a new technical, stylistic dancer that will help bring a brilliant visionary to the stage.

These young dancers may be looked at as dance prodigies, standing out in the eight talents of dance; musicality, technique, energy, emotion, flexibility, dedication, determination and memorization. Discovering the arising elite dance force in the studio is most likely going to be visible in the early ages of dance. Teachers can see the talent the young one’s expose in class that identify with high understanding of the eight dance components. For example they can find the eight counts, down beats and tempo changes in music. They take time to correct their technical movements like a sickled foot, or inverted knee. Energy and emotion fir the style of concern, they hold their poise in their face and body language. The young dancer’s hips and back have natural stretch. The prodigy dancer above all with show a love and commitment to the artful sport, and longs to be doing it whenever and wherever they are, wanting to reach a fuller potential and master all moves given to them. Finally the component of memorization speaks for itself, either you can remember what the choreography calls for next or it comes at a slower rate, for the type of dancer we’re talking about it is going to be the quicker picker upper.

Young dancer’s that compose all seven components of dance are a small and strong power in the dance industry. Displaying talent that some experienced dancers, choreographers, judges and everyday people admire and want for themselves. These young prodigy dancers have so much ahead of them and it is an exciting experience to dance among them and share their love and passion for the field. It’s rare to come across such a dancer that excels in musicality, technique, energy, emotion, flexibility, dedication, determination and memorization alike. This type of special, young dance prodigy is rare, but influential to watch, the natural talents they behold are breath taking and a personal favorite of mine to see.

~Julia Brewer