Acro dance

Cheerleading as a Sport 1, 2, 3 Lets Go! 4, 5, and 6 you can do it! Cheerleaders is to compete against other cheerleaders on a regular-season and post-season qualification basis, in much the same structure as basketball or gymnastics, and if the team conducted regular practices in preparation for the competition while under the supervision of a coach, these activities could be considered sports. (King, 13) The women that agree cheerleading should be recognized as a sport will not give up on…

The Harlem Dancer is a short poem that focuses on a woman’s beauty and a scene inside a bar. The title indicates that the location of the bar is in Harlem which was considered a common place during the Harlem Renaissance. McKay has also described the woman in this poem to be a young, black prostitute and he observes the impact that she has towards the crowd. After a while the speaker notices that the dancer is unhappy due to the lack of respect she is getting from the audience. He incorporates…

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage was created by Edgar Degas, around 1874. Degas used oil paints mixed with turpentine, along with watercolor and pastel over pen-and-ink drawing. It is displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Degas was a French artist who was most famous for painting and sculpting ballet dancers. He spent much of his time at the opera house, observing the dancers performing and practicing there. Degas did not always portray his dancers as the delicate,…

Before contact with the Western world, Hawaiians danced hula simply for social enjoyment. Its chants also preserved epic tales, myths, history, and philosophy (HawaiiHistory). One must practice it long enough for the dance to be within them and the meaning to deepen. Wāhine would grace their audience with the kahiko. The hand woven ti leaf skirts swish to the pounding of the homegrown ʻipu heke. Melodies of the ʻoli fill the sea-salted air as the women serenade the kāne…

Dance is an aspect that accommodates with emotions and displays creativity. This form of art is a major priority in my life. I have been a student at the Dance Depot since the age of five. Over the years, my skills progressed and this activity grew serious and challenging. As a young, inexperienced child, the exhibition symbolized a minor sport in my daily life. However, this current point of view changed dramatically on a summer afternoon in 2009. My mother received an interesting email from…

This photo is of a Washington State Cheerleader performing a full basket. To perform this stunt, 3 bases interlock their arms while the top girl stands crouched down on their hands. The bases dip down and then throw the top girl as high as they can into the air in a straight line as the top girl stands up. She performs a stunt when she feels weightless at the top of the throw. In this photo, you can clearly see that she is twisting her body on two different axes, but I will only be talking about…

sound silly, I just know it. But I think this is important. My greatest accomplishment in the past two years is learning to dance. No, it’s not graduating high school, getting good test scores, or being in the top of my class. I think it’s much more important than that. I’m not talking about learning amazing choreography, tricks, or moves – I just mean that I have learned to dance - shamelessly, without fear of judgment, and without a care in the world. In elementary school, I was bullied. I was…

After reading Art and the Community: Breaking the Aesthetic of Disempowerment I began thinking about where I stood on dance in the community, dance involving non typical dancers and dance as a therapeutic activity. As I was brain storming I realized I had much stronger opinions on these issues, than I realized. As a dancer, when asked what dance is to me I commonly refer to dance being an art form that allows me to express myself in a raw form. In the article Art and the Community: Breaking…

Misty Copeland, a soloist with the professional American Ballet Theatre company, once said that ballet is “one of few arts that has maintained its history…and stayed true to what it is”. Ballet is a form of dance and art that dates back to the 15th century. Though it has been modified and tweaked throughout the years, the overall technique has stayed. Ballet has had many influences since it first began. Each time period brought new and improved dancers with brighter and bolder influences to the…

In Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, the reader is a shown a horrible experience, the beating of a child by his father told in a way of the beautiful dance—the waltz. Our poet tries to beautify it by making it a waltz. It has the same timing as a waltz, 3 4 time. Roethke uses language, imagery, and tone to set the theme of abuse. The tone of the poem sets the whole poem up. It creates the course of the poem. The first stanza of this poem set the whole mood of the poem. “The whiskey on…