-Anonymous
There is a lot of preparation that goes on before a dancer
takes the stage. A small part of a dancer’s appearance is her ears. To assist
the face in popping, dancers wear earrings. It adds an extra sparkle onto the
stage, which only helps the audience draw the dancer in closer to their attention.
For dance team competitions you are not allowed to wear actual
earrings, for safety reasons. That means no bellybutton, nose, ears or any
other piercings are allowed. It doesn’t matter how new or permanent they are,
they are not tolerated and can result in disqualification if worn. For that reason
some teams do not wear any earrings. Which makes sense, because what else would they do? Well there is a solution to do this that my dance team uses.
For competitions and performances we always want to make our faces shine even
brighter so we glue on diamond like earrings that are most likely supposed to
be used for scrapbooking from a craft store. Other dance team’s also use these
diamonds on their face, following their smile line along their eyes. This helps
their face pop with lots of sparkle on the face.
On the other hand competitions for studios do allow you to
wear earrings. Therefore all studios should take the opportunity of putting
earrings on their dancer’s as it really makes a difference on the stage. My own
issue with earrings is that I do not have one of my ears pierced from a problem
with the sensitivity of my ears, so I have to wear clip-ons. Clip-ons are just
as effective as normal earrings, as long as they match the size of all the
other earring’s the studio uses. Clip-ons can be used for those who don’t have
their ears pierced, but still need to match the rest of the team.
Earrings are an important aspect to the appearance of a
dancer on stage. They really help to pop the features a dancer shows in their
face on stage. All dancer’s should wear earrings, and find a way that works for
whatever competition they are attending.
~Julia
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