“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”
-H. Jackson Brown jr
Dance is different in comparison to other sports in several different fields, one being the way in which placements, scores and rankings are given to individuals, groups and teams. Dance is sport judged completely on opinion. This can lead judge bias, preference and appeal. Everything on dance is based on an opinion, so every score sheet you receive can be different, even if several judges watched the exact same routine at the exact same time. In that lays the fact that one judge does not see everything another judge may notice. Judges also come from many different stylistic backgrounds, leading some to have more knowledge in specific genres than others.
Having a dance routine based completely on a judge’s opinion has both benefits and downfalls. For starters you encounter interpretations, ideas and suggestions from a wide variety of people. You get more than one point of view, and it can refresh the dancers and choreographers what is most noticeable to an eye that has never seen the routine. The judges can help by giving beneficial insight into the routine, and it is unlikely that every judge has the exact same thing to say. On the other hand judges can sometimes be tired from a long competition day and weary to give you much comment other than on the score sheet. This can be frustrating, especially when given a lower score, yet you don’t know why, where or how that score was deserved. Another downfall to dance judgements is the variety. One judge may give you a nearly perfect score, while another gives you subpar and three more give you somewhere crazily in between. Judges can also show bias to certain teams, although this is to commonly used to blame a poor scored performance, it does sometimes happen. In most occasions however, judges are selected with a lot of time, effort and professionalism, so hopefully this point never actually comes to be true.
Dance uses a score system based on opinion, which is different than most other sporting victories. Just like dance being judged differently, the judges are all different o. You encounter new ideas and insight from them and they hold knowledgeable backgrounds in the many forms of dance genres. It’s beneficial to gather information based on judgement in order to progress a dance routine to its fullest potential.
~Julia Brewer
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