Ballet Dancers: Most Enduring Athletes

Ballet has always been one of my favorite art forms, not only because of its beauty and grace but because of the endurance that the ballet dancers have to have in order to perform it on stage. Many people think of ballet as being too feminine or too traditional, and that it is something that people who have not athletic skills should do. However, if you put a basketball player and a ballerina together to do the same ballet exercises, the basketball player will mostly be struggling to keep up, while the ballerina will finish the exercises with more agility and flexibility. What this means is that ballet dancers, whether male or female, are athletes and should be respected as such, but at the same time they are artists who draw us into a world of magic and wonder in ballet productions.

Ballet dancers are some of the toughest athletes because, even when they feel pain, they have to continue to look like dancing ballet is the easiest thing in the world. They also have to be super adaptable to new routines and choreography for each new production, and they have to get new ballet shoes all the time because ballet shoes only last one performance. Unlike some people, who wear either lucky socks or shoes, ballet dancers have to rely on their skills, ambition, and determination.

While they are athletes, they also actors whose dialogue are their graceful movements and colorful costumes. Their body language allows the audience to understand who their characters are and what their personalities are like while retaining graceful stance that is expected of a ballet dancer.