Dance Discourse Community

A discourse community has 6 characteristics according to Swales. Common public goals, intercommunication, feedback, expectations, specific lexis, old and new members are what makes a discourse community. Dance has a variety of discourse communities whether its a dance team, dance studio, dance club, etc. Those are examples of discourse communities that relate to dance. With that being said, for the blog post Im going to be using the discourse community of dancer problems! So what I did what went on Instagram, and put in "#dancerproblems". A bunch of post came up of dancers and the problem they have that only a dancer could understand. Since Im a dancer, I understood most of the problems some of the dancers had because Ive had those problems myself. This hashtag is a discourse community because....

• This community's public goal is to solve there problems. For example, if I worn out my point shoes, I need to get news ones and break those in.  Or another problem would be, auditioning and getting rejected. The goal is to keep auditioning and staying confident in till you finally get a call back! These are just 2 goals a dancer has to overcome.
• In this discourse community, dancers communicate to each other. #dancerproblems talks about their dance problems, and everyone in that community relates to each other, and comments on each others post. 
• Dancers in this community not only communicate, but also exchange feedback. For example, a dancer might have a problem like  their knees are all banged up and bruised. Another dancer might suggest to wear knee pads and ice the knees. This is a common problem for dancers.
• In a discourse community like #dancerproblems, there are expectations. One of my problems are picking about fast choreography, and a lot of dancers have this problem. But your dance teacher expects you to have the choreography down by the next class. Trying to pick of very fast and detailed choreography is one of my biggest weaknesses as being a dancer.  
• #dancerproblems has specific terms that are used in the community. For example, if I said, "today in ballet class I slipped and fell doing a tour jete", nobody is gonna know what a "tour jete: is unless you dance! Dance has a lot of specific terms, most of them are in  French if your in a Ballet or Lyrical class. 
• This community has a variety of members. Young dancers post in this hashtag. Older dancers who might not even dance anymore also post in this hashtag!  

Dance Problems mentioned in the community:

Discourse Community:

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/dancerproblems/?hl=en