Sustainability of partnership of competitive dance couples from the junior to senior in the period from 2010. until 2015. year

This research presents an analysis of 22 dance couples of Serbian Dance Association on national level of competitions for a period of 6 years (2010. until 2015.). The age group of dance couples in the first year of research which was taken for the sample are junior I (12, 13 years old). The research results indicate that the number of dancers who have stay in the competition by 2015. is extremely small, also any of dance couple didn›t stay dancing together during 5 years, which certainly affects the quality and results on the competition. The number of female dancers who have finished their competition careers when they stopped to dance with a partner because of the small number of male dancers. The aim is to research results point to a substandard of care in working with dance couples as a team, given that the dance sport is not an individual sport, as well as the position of the female dancer on dance sport in the Republic of Serbia.