Dance Sport as an Olympic Sport

Abstract

This work is dedicated to ballroom dancing and the sport of dance. From early childhood and well into my adulthood I spent many hours on the dance floor practicing, competing, training others, and achieving high marks. I worked side by side with other dancers committed to this sport with their heart and soul. Making Ballroom dancing and the sport of dance an Olympic event is not a dream of one, but of many. In the first part of this work the reader will find ballroom dance history through the years and its progress and development in the recent years, Dance Federation structure and organization, statistics from various competitions, the number of competitions in different age group in World Championships and in High-Rank competitions, and also information on judging system and its standards. In the second part of this work the reader will be presented with the Olympic Committee requirements for a sport to become an Olympic event and qualitative and quantitative characteristics of other sports comparing them to similar characteristics of ballroom dancing. Finally, in the third part of this work, the reader will be introduced to the presence of sport in our society and in the world. Publicity, sponsorship, and education has been analyzed.