Dancers; How would you define success?

Question:A) In your daily class?
B) within your school or company?
C) describing the overall course of your dance career,
past and/or future?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: A) In your daily class?
B) within your school or company?
C) describing the overall course of your dance career,
past and/or future?

Lovely question. If I answer it honestly everyone will see just how vane I am. But I'm willing admit to it.

In general, dancing has to feel good and look good, even though it means putting effort into it. It's not supposed to feel awkward.

A) I feel successful if I'm able to keep up with the class, I feel that I'm making progress, that is, it feels that I'm doing things correctly and better than yesterday. Any form of positive feedback from teachers counts too.
B) As a part of amateur-run ballroom dance team, I feel successful if I'm setting an example for others to follow that others actually follow. If I work efficiently and get a lot of pleasure out of it then people tend to follow. To some degree, the capacity for leadership makes me feel successful.
Being a ballroom dancers, there is another peculiarity: capability to find a good partner and stay in a partnership. Things do happen, partnerships brake up due to outer circumstances as well as for internal reasons, but if I were to find myself without a partner most of the time may be the reason has to do with me. Competition-wise, success is very simply defined. If my overall placements are getting higher with time and my ranking goes up then there you go - success defined. Simply put, I'm successful if other people like my dancing.
C) Since I'm an amateur dancer, it isn't exactly a career for me. I've started dancing as an adult 6 years ago and I feel healthier and more flexible now than I did back then. That's succsess. I'm still at a positive slope, that is, I didn't feel my progress slow down because I reached the peak or because I got older. I actually have higher expectations and goals now than I did when I started. Back then I thought I'd just learn enough to dance comfortably at socials, maybe reach Gold level (end of syllabus) in competitions. Now I'm officially no longer allowed to compete in Gold due to high proficiency level, dance at Pre-Champ now and I want to dance Amateur Championship in a year or two. I had some slow-downs because I lost partners or because I was too busy with school (I'm a full time student) but I considered it to beall part of the process.

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A). Success in my daily class is being noticed by my instructor, being pointed out, or being complemented. If these things don't happen, I just look at it as a success anyway because I took another class into becoming a great dancer.

B). I haven't spent long with my particular studio, but we are having our annual end of the year performance soon. If I can learn the combo and have fun on stage, that is success enough for me.

C).I'd like to continue being a dancer. I hope that in the future I can get jobs or get on a good company and keep having fun, because life's too short not to have fun dancing.

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A) I define success in class as pushing myself further than I've gone before. It doesn't have to mean almost perfecting something, I just have to improve and have fun to succeed.

B) I define success in my school as having my teacher notice me and correct me a lot in classes, as well as getting good parts in performances.

C) I define success in a dance career as actually HAVING a dance career. I couldn't imagine actually getting paid to dance! It would be amazing!

A) When i leard to do a step 100% RIGHT
B) In my dance school i would say when we finshed a performace.
C)I am only 14 so i can dance alot longer but i felt successful when i got my pointe shoes!

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A. If i get pointed out in the class. Or i land that turn I've been working weeks to get. Or my dance teacher says "good job" or wow I've never seen that high of an extension come out of you" (happened last week) Or overall if i feel like i did a good job or tired my best.

B. If i land a good roll in a production number. Were doing Bedrock and i got Rosie the robot. (best roll I've gotten ever) Or if another teacher i don't have points me out.

C. I'm not a professional. I dance for fun. And i don't think I'll be a professional dancer so i really can't answer that. One day I'd like to be, but i don't think its going to happen. I felt success when i finally got my pointe shoes after eight hard worked years of ballet.

A) when i improve on something.. say i can't get that quadruple pirouette and then i finally do it and continue to get better at it: that makes me feel very successful... also if my teacher uses me as an example or compliments me
B) if i get a good part in the shows
C) if later on in life i got to dance for a living! that would be sooo amazing.. i would loveee that!!!

A) In my daily class success to me is getting the step/routine/combination whatever it is perfect and to the best of my ability. And if I can't do it, well, I go home and practice it even more and come back the next day perfect lol.

B) I would define success in my dance school being asked to become an assistant dance teacher and having the best Tap, Jazz and Ballet examination results in the whole school. Which is what I have achieved

C) I believe I have been successful in the past and I really do hope so in the future. I would love to go pro and to share my love and talent with audiences from all over the world :)

~rach

A) Being told that I did something right, or being used as an example for doing something right.

B) Getting noticed by the director, or getting a lead part in one of the ballets we put on.

C) Being professional at all, or really, getting to be a principal dancer. I think ultimately, I would think that I'd had a successful career if I ever got cast as Giselle.