Group dance

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…

goes up because of the height of the stunt. Both a top girl and bases can get hurt because of the increased time of falling that results in a greater velocity coming does. Because of this risk, there are a lot of safety measures put in to place and a group must demonstrate safer skills before being allowed to try a basket toss. Cheerleading is full of physics that allow for stunts to be performed. The basket toss involves Newton’s 3rd Law, torque, angular momentum, and…

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…

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…

The anticipation as the cheerleaders wait for the announcer to call them to approach the mat. The cheerleaders are very tense as the butterflies burst in their stomachs. The berserk cheer moms hoot and holler for their daughters as they proceed to the floor. Many girls are pondering the question of how in the world they made it. As I pursue my goal of making it to states, I am blessed with my prime team; however I am obligated to conquer the adversities to achieve this mission for my team and I.…

What do you think of when people ask what is a sport? Most will think of football, basketball, or even golf, but they miss marching band. According to the Oxford Dictionary, “a sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." Many people will argue that it is not a sport and say it is an art form, but when the word sport is broken it down by its definition it is seen otherwise. Think about this, is it…

waltzing around the kitchen with his son, to his wife’s displeasure. The speaker uses a sound device such as onomatopoeia, to describe the father’s uncoordinated dance. In the text it stated, “We romped until the pans; Slid from the kitchen shelves.” Which was used to put emphasis on how loud or how bad of a ruckus it was. Waltzing is a type of dance in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles. But waltz is a symbol for the relationship between the father and son. “Such waltzing…

This group was amazing because everyone reminded each other that it would get better, and injuries are minor setbacks to major outcomes in the future. I have learned from my injuries that life is always going to give you challenges and you need to work harder…