A social outlook marked by atavistic prejudices limits the role of dance to pure entertainment. A dancer should fill the leisure time of the community as a divertimento. Outside of this phenomenon, his function is diluted to nothing, except when he is used as an archetype of social communication, centered on gossip, highlighting a fictitious character alien to the reality of his profession.

Perhaps because of this narrow view, despite all the progress achieved and the great social transformations that have taken place over the last 60 years, even the most advanced societies do not admit that the dancer is a high performance athlete, because of the time to which he subjects his body to exercise and because of the stress and demands to which he is subjected by the competitiveness inherent in his profession.

Inviting medical professionals, knowledgeable about the bodies of athletes and their ailments and deficiencies, to talk about dance is not futile. On the contrary, it is a professional and ethical requirement that the María Pagés Choreographic Center takes very seriously and proceeds to draw attention to a reality that affects thousands of professionals, that socio-cultural inertias keep in the most absolute ignorance of their specialized body, which needs a medicine that studies the effects of exercise, dance and physical activity on the human body, from the point of view of prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries.