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When most people think of sports, what so they think of? Friday night football. America’s favorite past time of baseball. The international sport of soccer. Never do they think of my sport, cheerleading. I believe that should change. So here is to the people that think cheerleading is not a sport And here is to the people that think cheerleaders are not athletes. The very definition of the word sport is, and I quote from the Oxford Dictionary, “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in

techniques demand new things from the body. While I understand the book’s reasoning, I believe that when adding a new technique, instead of tapering old styles of dance, a dancer should gradually add the new technique into their regime so they maintain the technicality of their old technique and progressively improve the new style of dance they are trying to

Evening of Dance was performed by students of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Repertory Dance Company I, Repertory Dance Company II, and World Dance Ensemble. The show was put on in the beautiful Montgomery Arts Theater on Wednesday, November 9. The show featured a variety of different pieces, keeping the audience on the edge of their seats throughout the whole show. The show opened with World Dance Ensemble’s (Title of Piece), choreographed by (choreographer)

However, what most people don’t know is sideline cheerleading is not the only type of cheerleading. There is also competitive cheerleading. Competitive cheerleading is a high energy routine that includes stunting, tumbling, jumps, a pyramid, and a dance crammed into two minutes and 30 seconds. I have first-hand experience of both sideline and competitive cheerleading due to the fact I was a cheerleader for five years. Throughout

Most Common Dance Related Injuries and How To Avoid Them Every day all over the world in countless dance studios, dancers, professional or not professional, end up with injuries from their dance routine or just from dancing around their living room. Either way, having injuries that came from dancing is never a fun experience, or it can be rather painful depending on which typical injury from dancing it is that the dancer has. Most of the time dance injuries occur in the ankles and the knees. Those

The Charleston dance is named after the harbor city of Charleston, South Carolina. The Charleston was a dance that was often performed by the descendants of African slaves in the American south. “It is a blend of African and European sources, and it has had a broad influence on American life and art” -Dawn Lille. The Charleston was by the composer/pianist James P. Johnson and originated in a broadway show called Runnin Wild, where the rhythm was popularized in mainstream dance music in the United

I think on paper all the ballet schools in Russia supposedly use the Vaganova curriculum. I could be wrong, but I think they supposedly have uniform training across the country on paper, BUT the truth of the matter is that the students who come directly out of the Vaganova Academy are totally different (very fluid upper bodies). You can almost always spot a dancer at the Mariinsky, for example, who did not come out of the Vaganova Academy. You will think, "Hmmm....her arms are sort of stiff.....

first until he became drawn to dance. In 1919, he met Rudolf Laban, who trained him in dance and later became Laban’s choreographic assistant. Eventually, Jooss went to Paris, which is where his strong interest in ballet started to form. He believed that ballet could be combined with new movements to demonstrate contemporary ideas. “The Green Table” was choreographed in 1932 when Jooss took on the role of ballet master of the Essen Opera House. It’s Jooss’ most popular dance and it depicts his point of

Cheerleading is a fascinating sport that is done all over the world. The sport has many interesting aspects and some cheerleaders have even been put in movies and T.V. shows. Some of the most important parts of cheerleading are:jumps,stunts,tumbling,outfits,and the all star and college divisions. The first type of cheerleading is school or college cheerleading, school cheerleading is a group of people in middle school, high school, or college. Those teams usually cheer for sports teams from their

director of these performances just so happened to be, Doug Varone, himself. I watched several dances throughout an evening's length performance. I developed a theme for each performance, by connecting them through various factors such as, movement, music, and staging, and performance. I feel that each dance together, hinted a sense of fear, isolation, and then freedom. Although there was connectivity in the dances all together, they each rendered a story of their own. Overall, the production’s performances