In addition, in the US, sports are associated with athletic ability.
Although dancing is certainly athletic, I think primarily it fills a
more aesthetic purpose of creative expression through body movement (am I
naive?). I am not ready to sacrifice beauty (visible through watching
other dancers and felt through actually moving myself), nor the real
charge of connecting with another human being for athleticism.
Once a standard for dancing enters billions of homes across the
world through mass media (Olympic television coverage) how many people do
you suppose will be turned off by realizing they have been doing it
"wrong" all along (I would guess it is something of this sort that
prevented me from choosing gymnastics rather than dancing for a
hobby. . . . . Well, ok, perhaps there were a few other reasons.)?
Besides, do we really want one homogeneous world in which everyone dances
the same way?
Things to think about, anyway.
joanna