I came across this photograph below when doing some research on the internet. This image was taken by press photographer Tiejun Wang. It is titled 'Sweat Makes Champions' which won second prize in the Daily Life, Singles, category at the World Press Photo contest. The image is showing four young girls doing toe-pressure training at their gymnastics school in China. This training went on for 30 minutes to strengthen their muscles in their toes, legs and ankles. Having strong muscles and ankles in dance and gymnastics is a must for dancers due to the amount of pressure that is applied in all styles of dance. From a non-dancer's perspective this would seem very tough and 'wrong' to make these girls do such a thing for so long however, from a dancer's perspective this is a great exercise to for the girls to do as their strength will become stronger and process from a much younger age therefore, helping the girls become much more powerful dancers/gymnasts when they are older. It is very important to look after the feet and care for them throughout training, so exercises such as this are really important. This image has inspired me to look more into how a dancers perspective is much different to someone who looks into the dance world and produce more artwork showing how we change are bodies and why we put ourselves through the pain.
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