First steps

Well, i was so perplexed with that question about Hip-hop dancing if it was considered to be a sport or an art. So that I decided to ask people who somehow connected to dancing and find out their opinions. The results were very interesting. People who dance hip-hop mostly said that it's a sport while people who just like dancing look at hip-hop like an art. Main arguments for being an art are creativity. expression, show and presence of meaning and sense. But arguments for sport are set of rules, good physical training, competitions, marking criteria, restrictions and limitations (age, time, size of performance area, moves and so on), presece of sport rating/classes. It's similar to Figure Skating, Ballroom Dancing and ryththmic Gymnastics and they are all sports!!! Moreover, one article offered a view to it like an adventure sport or action sport (Puchan H., 2004 Living ‘extreme’: Adventure sports,media and commercialisation). Acording to that author, hip-hop dancing can be a young sport phenomenon. "Adventure sports are often described as lifestyle sports" (Puchan H., 2004, p.171). I would try to find more academic proofs that hip-hop dancing is A SPORT!!!