Originally Posted by
NZ Monkey
I think there's a bit of a stigma associated with considering yourself an ''advanced'' dancer. I've heard so many people say that they're always still learning and only consider themselves beginners, including a couple of highly rated profesionals I can think of.
I don't doubt that they're telling the truth when they say this. We're all always still learning if we keep an open mind. If you're placing in professional divisions of large internertional competitions though, chances are you're not a beginner. I'd go as far to say that if anyone could be considered advanced (or super/uber/ultra advanced).....it'd *have* to be them.
At the end of the day the label *advanced* is just an arbitrary statement of ability relative to others around you. Nobody has any problems with the definitions of beginner and intermediate, but we need some label for those clearly more able than the typical intermediate dancer if we're going to talk about them in the same vein. Calling them endless derivates of intermediate 2, 3, post intermediate etc seems a little like false modesty to me in many ways.
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