Dancers can be 'at risk' for many reasons. Experts generally agree that any person, from any walk of life, can be entrapped and led astray.
Dancers make excellent cult bait.
If you examine the recruiting techniques and the individuals commonly targeted by cults, you'll discover that many cults are engineered to target characteristics that we can call the dancers' common condition . A dedication to the arts can often minimize social exposure to peers outside of dance. This is certainly more pronounced for dancers involved with home schooling, residency programs and intense training schedules. Dancers often struggle with community, peer, family and even church acceptance and thrive in the arts as emotional beings with strong spiritual or affirmation needs. As dancers enter new schools and new environments this common condition can place them at increased risk when they are confronted with the apparently warm and welcoming face of a cult.