ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 12月21日 23時08分

There’s something marvelously elusive about the definition of success in competition dance. Dance is an art form: It’s difficult to articulate how you know that one person is better than someone else. In the competitive dance world, the format is straightforward. On weekends, for-profit traveling companies host competitions in convention centers and hotels. Dance schools bring their students to compete. Judges, usually dance teachers or choreographers, score each piece on the spot. Many competition dancers are drawn in by social media, where popular dancers and teachers have millions of followers. Others learn about it from adults. The young dancers train up to 30 hours per week. “It was never like this when I was a kid,” Jared Grimes, 34, a prominent tap dancer and competition judge told @nytmag. “These kids are like gladiators. The dominating, the mind games, the winning. It’s all strategic.” @dina_litovsky photographed dancers from Prestige Academy of Dance, in Fairfield, New Jersey, performing at a competition called Showbiz. The studio’s core team of 52 dancers — from 4-year-olds to teenagers — would enter over 20 dance pieces over the course of the 3-day competition. Visit the link in our profile for a look inside the high-drama world of youth competition dance — and to see more photos by the Redux photographer @dina_litovsky for @nytmag.

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