Dance vs sports

Today’s Topic, Football and Ballet. When you think of football, ballet is not something that is usually found in the same sentence.

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The Miami HEAT has teamed up with the Miami City Ballet to celebrate 25 years of basketball and ballet.Earlier this season, the two dancers were paired with HEAT superstars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in a series of unique photos that showcase the worl…

This picture communicates the idea that basketball and ballet can coexist with each other. I like this particular picture because it seems to portray both activities as equals rather than one being more difficult than the other.

When I searched this concept of dance vs sports, most images or articles that came up were comparing ballet and football. There was rarely mention of any other styles of dance or other sports, probably to make the differences between the two seem as starkly contrasted as possible.

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Many argue that Americans place more emphasis on professional sports than on professional music. Athletes make millions of dollars a year, while musicians are lucky to make a hundred thousand. Sports arenas constantly get makeovers, while theatres and performance halls look the same as they did when they were first built. Yet professional athletes might not be as good as they are today without the help of classical music. Since the 1970’s when professional football player Lynn Swann first…

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