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Why Is There Still A Stigma About Males Dancing?

DANCE Posted: June 17, 2019 3:03 pm

Data compiled by Doug Risner, a professor of dance at Wayne State University in Detroit, shows that only 32 percent of male dancers have fathers who support their desire to dance. Typically, American dads only want their sons to be athletic on the sports field. Adding music and ballet technique—or tap dancing, contemporary movement, ballroom or jazz steps—to physicality somehow makes that pursuit unforgivably girlish. – Dance Magazine

DANCE Published: 06.11.19

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