Two routines competition are equal in technical skills, art and choreography. One is for all the girls and the other a child. Guess who won the first prize?
If you thought the child in the world of competitive dance, a silent and controversial phenomenon can be aware of: The boy factor. After factor Boy, a competitive piece is likely if a child to win in it.
"If everything is equal and technically group is that all the girls and the other group was a child who is going to win with the child," said rysa Childress, owner of All Star Studios in Forest Hills, New York. "Young Soloists are sometimes technically competent overcome girls, because if a man has a good presence on stage, we let it go," said one of the contest judges anonymous. "And most of the comments will be for the child."
The child factor has to do not only with the competition scores: This is the way we treat children during their dance studies. "We idolize these guys," says Ashley Harnish, a teacher in a study of competition. "We are building all dance to a boy, and they teach that we need more girls than necessary."
On the surface, the boy factor blatant sexism. But what is really behind this phenomenon? "Very often, young dancers intimidated because our culture says that dancing is for girls," said a second national competition referee. "The stigma leads to reward results with higher than their female counterparts, some judges children." The boy factor also stems from a simple fact: there are more girls than boys in the world of dance.
"Judges see children as objects of value," Marissa Jean, an employee says in the new building on Broadway Dance Center for children and young people and teachers in several studies of the competition. "Throw on the way to promote careers in dance, judges, a little more. You could place them in the top ten or give them a special price. They eat a little more than girls. "
But in trying to retain talent more men, suggesting that girls have less value children dance to the world? "A lot of this type in the minds of these children," Childress said. "Like, 'Oh boy, whom they beat me, no matter what. How can we teach yourself to know that a child go to, so what's the point? "
The boy factor is the glass staircase "Many children in the world of dance say does not grow up the word" no "is often a tendency to climb the professional ranks to dance faster than women," a product and a culture of collaboration that sends some men said Jean. Often we lament the lack of leadership by women in the dance, but the damage has been done, if we taught women that gender determines its value to our community.
What can we in the factor Boy? First, it could encourage the way children continue dancing. Instead of young people to give the devaluation of young women, we can work as a community to dispel the culture of toxic masculinity, children scares pursue first dance.
But it also falls into the hands of the judges and teachers. "We need to raise awareness," the second official said. "Many of us judge not realize that we support and the messages we send our rating and price. If you get together enough of us, I think we can make a difference for this part of the field is less toxic. "
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