Dance is not normally considered a sport. Dance does not have the institutional support of sport or the infrastructure network. Still, in Gipuzkoa every week there are 10,000 people involved in Basque dance. Other types of dances should be added to this: ballet, modern, contemporary, ballroom dances, street dances, etc. Mostly women. Sports statistics do not include the knowledge of dance, so those who dance, in addition to dance, do no sport, are considered passive. In other words, dancers consider themselves as citizens to whom it is necessary to activate physically, already activated, without taking into account that they are dancing. In the midst of the wide range of leisure activities, dance competes with few resources and supports, with the public administration having the greatest competitor, as it incites sport without taking into account whether it is dancing.

Every child likes to dance. Bringing to light the sensations that music produces through the body is a capacity that all human beings have. We are born with that faculty. As it increases, most women work and develop this competition and most men abandon and deactivate it. To boys and girls, we indicate the gender identity we have assigned them, and they are trained in stereotyped activities related to each gender, building their identity in opposition to the other gender. Thus, sport in general is identified as an activity of boys and dance as an activity of girls. Therefore, when the time of school sport comes, a special effort must be made to bring women closer to sport, since for several years many girls have been separated from sport, believing that the practice was male. So the girls who have been dancing are mostly encouraged to play sports, where they meet boys who until then have only done sport.

Most men consider dance as a female activity, do not know it and do not value it. They do not know that dance, besides being a cultural heritage, is as beneficial to health as sport. They are foreign to the physical and intellectual emotions and pleasures produced by dance, to the benefits it produces in balance, to the contributions it makes in the organization of intelligence, space and dimensions and in the physical and mental well-being. Most men do not know how the practice of dance contributes to the personal, intellectual, affective and social development of the person.

Girls and boys develop different skills and abilities in the growth process, but suddenly girls are told that exercise, dance, has no value and they have to do sport. They have to do sport, therefore, an activity that they have done little, and together with them are the children who have only done sport. Moreover, sport is primarily understood competitively. Through sport, the complex disability of women with respect to men and men is strengthened and naturalized. But look, most men will never dance, they will not engage in the activity in which women are trained, they will not have to go through a humiliation that shows them they are less.

Could anyone explain to me why they are promoting sport and rejecting dance? Who is better at promoting sport and rejecting dance? Why haven't we put dance in value, a public policy that encourages dance and encourages men to dance?

(For the news debate room, I was asked for an opinion about sport, dance and gender. In the same section, BEÑAT Amenabar has made an invitation to reflect on the centrality of football in the organization of the school space. They are removed with limited space, so the views of both are expressed in a concise way, without taking into account all the details of the subject, in order to encourage debate and not with the intention of establishing a closed reply. In the Hall of Debate of the News, at the entrance Margins of Sport, the opinions of both are collected and here I have stuck my text)

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