Acro dance

Back pain is one of the most common injuries sustained by collegiate cheerleaders. Factors like position in a stunt, experience, and previous back injuries can cause an athlete to develop frequent or chronic back pain. In college cheerleading, there are two different positions in which a cheerleader can be placed. The first position is the flyer, her job is to stay tight by having a strong core and contracting every muscle in her body so that she can be thrown in to the air easily. It is…

While walking into the Gershwin Theater in New York City, people flow past quickly going to their seats to wait for the play to begin. As the lights dim in the large room, many people erupt into loud cheers and claps of excitement. The play begins with a soft string instrument, and is joined by the melodious sound of drums, flutes, and trumpets. The actors appear on stage swiftly as the life of the Wicked Witch of the West is portrayed on the slanted platform in front. Theater has allowed people…

The conga is a novelty dance that is danced individual with a partner, or in a line also known as a “conga line”. The basic steps in a conga line include three shuffle steps on the beat followed by a kick on the fourth beat. When the conga is done as a couple dance, the dancers face each other and move opposite direction of one measure, then they switch directions. When you are at a party, many times people will start a conga line. This is done by each person behind the next places their hands…

Taylor Dance Company. The afternoon begins with ‘Mercuric Tidings’ which is a pure dance piece set to excerpts from Franz Schubert’s glorious Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2. Unfortunately all the music is taped, due to the exorbitant cost of a live orchestra in New York City. I really love this work, especially the forms of the movements which keep growing and changing into gorgeous patterns. All the dancers are splendid, leaping and spinning at a breakneck pace. There is so much depth to this dance…

In the dance piece, Waiting For The 46th, choreographer Ryan Thomas and dancers Jillian Bruno, Chav’nair “Chav” Stocker, and Jazmin Zavaleta explore the struggles that we may come across in our life as obstacles. The piece was performed at the Kinetic Conversations faculty dance concert at 7:00 pm on November 30th, 2017 in the Landis Performing Arts Center on the campus of Riverside City College. The dance department created this showcase to demonstrate the many talents that choreographers have…

entrance, so we were all getting ready to dance. This was the first dance of the night, and there was so much built up anticipation. This was the moment we were all waiting for, the moment we had practiced so tirelessly for months. Finally, the doors opened, and each pair entered the ballroom one by one, until it was my turn for my escort, Marc, and I entered and then went into our waltz position. The music commenced and the waltz began. I do not know how the dance looked, but I…

The first time the class met, we were in the smallest dance room. A long wooden bar ran across the back wall, parallel to a mirror covered wall. On the shelves around the room were what seemed like hundreds of trophies that the local high school dance team had won over the years. The first thing I remembered thinking was “Wow, I’m going to have trophies just like this one day!” and little did I know that my reward from baton twirling would be much greater than any trophy or medal. My first time…

To achieve your goals you have to be motivated and spotting just doesn’t do that. Spotting doesn’t help us be focused on the task at hand, and keep us from becoming distracted; it just helps our body turn around. Dance can help us achieve our goals though because we often set goals ourselves, trying to work on a particular move so we can perfect it. I think that it would be more realistic be a more realistic point to say that we are always working to get better and…

I still remember the first day I met Bobby, it was the first day of senior year. Every year on the first day we would have an assembly. Every year it was the same thing, new policy, dress code...blah blah. I was walking with Jax, my boyfriend of since forever it felt like. Jax was messing around with the football team yelling “ throw it over here” echoing throughout the hallway. As the ball flew through the air I looked up just in time to see her walk by. The smell of sweet strawberries…

Released in 2011, the documentary, First Position, directed by Bess Kargman, exposes the hardships and the competitive reality of ballet. The documentary uses of multiple film techniques to present the reality of the art rather than preppy stereotype that surrounds it. My experience as one who sacrifices much, a perfectionist and a fellow dancer who faces body stereotypes, I accept the audiences positioning. My similar experiences as a fellow dancer, incurs an empathic response to Miko and her…