According to Martha Graham, “Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” To me, dancing is more than just a hobby, it is my life. My dance team is also more than just a team, it is my second family. Each girl on my team has her own unique personality, but somehow, we all get along well. We are all such good friends and have had to make it through many difficult situations already, but all it has done was bring us closer together. The girls on my team are all caring, talented, and funny.
My friends on dance team are very caring and we all look out for each other. Emily is kind and she always is willing to help someone who does not know the choreography very well. Nobody on the team is nicer than McKenzie. She is the sweetest person I have ever met. She could never get mad at anybody, and is always there for anyone who needs her. McKenzie would never do anything to hurt someone. Mckenzie is also one of the most quiet girls on the team. I recall the only times I heard her talk her first year on the team were when someone would ask her a question. I would say that I am caring as well. I believe this because whenever someone needs help with a dance I am always the first person to volunteer to help. Every girl on my team is caring and we are always there
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to help each other out. My team is talented as a whole, but each girl has her own individual talents. Savannah has the most amazing turns. Olivia has the best ballet technique and beautiful leg holds. One of the best girls on my team is T’reaia. She is only a sophomore and has been dancing for about four years. Most of the girls on my team have been dancing for around nine years. T’reaia is naturally athletic and I think that is why she is so good. T’reaia can do basically any style of dance. She can do hip hop, kick, lyrical, turns, and her jumps are incredible. Each girl on my team is good at something different and putting these talents together is what makes our team so good. One of my favorite things about dance team is how funny we are.
Whenever we are together we act so crazy that people must think we are very weird. Ciara makes the funniest nasty faces. Grace dances like she is insane and pretends to sing opera. Addy never really tries to be funny, but she always gets so confused and it is hilarious. Tristan is the funniest one on the team. She is so outgoing and crazy, that it is hard not to find her hilarious. She does the craziest things that make you laugh so hard that your stomach begins to ache. Sometimes, to be really funny, she runs around and lick people’s elbows until someone notices. My team may act really weird, but I think it is funny and I would not trade them for the
world. My friends from dance team really are more than just my teammates. They are all amazing friends and overall people. There is nobody I would rather spend every day at six in the morning with. They are so talented, funny, and caring that it would be hard to imagine not being friends with them. People do not understand that it is not about winning for us, it is about having fun and getting to spend time together doing what we love.
I considered myself a performer, and after years training as a classical ballerina I expanded into stunting and tumbling. While on tour, I developed friendships and bonds with dancers strengthened by a mutual love for dance, a commonality over the pain our bodies endured daily, and conversations on bruised and broken toes.
Something I have learned from past cheerleaders is that a bad attitude is toxic to our program and tends to keep our team from reaching its full potential. I try my best to always stay positive and keep a smile on my face to not only make practice enjoyable for me but for the whole team. We have seen how bad attitudes can affect our program, but imagine what a few good attitudes could do. This all comes back to the captains and how they deal with certain teammates that are not contributing to the
Yes, there are many other sports where there are solo competitions like boxing and golf but there is always a support systems for the competitors in these sports. There are also ways for dancers to compete alone by performing a solo at a competition. And there is always a team to back up these solo dancers. It was estimated that there was over five million competitive dance teams in the United States in 2002 and that number has only grown since then (Brady, 1). Being part of a team is an important aspect of a sport, especially for competitive dancers. Many feel like their dance studio is a second home and that their team is like a second family. “The studio was your home. Your team was your family,” said Alexa Palermo from the Odyssey, who was also a former dancer (Palermo, 1). Being part of a team means a lot to a competitive dancer and it is what helps them through the hard times of their dance careers. Many dancers feel like it is their passion in life, but say that competitive dance would not have been the same without their team (Palmero, 4). Many sports teams across the country feel this same way and are a better team because of it. Being part of a team is what makes competitive dance a sport just like any other sport in the United
The typical idea of a dancer is that they are tall, slender, full of energy, and lucky because they dance with all of the “stars”. Much of this is true, however, what many people do not think of are the many hardships that a dancer goes through in order to achieve their high status in the dance world. It takes much hard work and determination along with good direction to become a dancer. However, nothing good comes without a price. Dancers often times have many pressures put on them which can lead to physical and emotional damages. These damages occur through the pressures from the media, parents, teammates, and the stereotype that society has placed on dancers.
Fourteen years of my life. Fifty two weeks of my year. Five days of my week. Four hours of my day. This is what I have given to the sport of gymnastics. Friday night football games. After school clubs. Sleeping in on the weekend. This is what I have sacrificed in pursuit of my passion. Perseverance against adversity. Dedication throughout hardships. Discipline in body and mind. These are the qualities this sport has engraved into my being. There is not a time I can remember when I was not involved in gymnastics. When I reflect on the milestones of my life I don’t reminisce on the loss of my first tooth or a move to a new house, but instead I recall my first trip to nationals and mastering my back tuck. Gymnastics is the foundation of who I
Cheerleading is simply a practice for the larger arena of life. Also, cheerleading can also be a way to get our squad to do better in school. 80% of our team has at least a B average.” She also goes onto add, “ We value friendship, hard work, education, and discipline. In our team, we are a family. When one of us is hurt, we are all hurt. We do everything together and we are proud to be one big bulldog family.” The coach continues to explain her experiences with the bonding process, “There was a solid bond, and a harmony that was deficient from a large portion of the groups I was on in my school days. I assumed that was only the way it was. We hadn 't arrived to be companions, we hadn 't arrived in light of the fact that we were a group, we arrived on the grounds that we were all team promoters. As a mentor, and as a commander of my grown-up gathering pledges group after secondary school, my point of view changed. I encountered that it isn 't about whether a gathering of individuals gel or not, it isn 't a take it or abandon it circumstance. There are measures you can take, simple exercises and amusements you can utilize, that can really have any kind of effect in how a group interfaces with each other, and how agreeable they feel coming into a practice or occasion, working with
Although I am not a great dancer by any means, I learned through my years of involvement in dance that if you want something you should not let any hardships stop you. This message is what helps push me toward success in my educational
Martha Graham said, “Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.” No matter what one’s color is or what one looks like, anyone can dance. When people hear their favorite songs on the radio, they like to get up and dance to it. Dance is a form of art that involves movement and music. With a group of people, different patterns and techniques can be formed, that one person cannot perform alone. As a group, it can make each dance step look precise and uniform and there are ways to make an individual stand out. By forming a dance crew, one can build strong friendships and it can feel as if their crew is a second family. MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew creates a cultural impact on society because it proves that people of different race, different region, and different gender can all compete for the same prize.
Dance should not be considered a sport because it is merely an art and it is nothing more than that. Since dance is an art, it involves creativity, and creativity is not part of sports. Sports are about following a set of rules, adhering to them, and doing them to the best of one’s ability in order to receive the title of winner. Sports are meant for both boys and girls. Dance is not a funded sport in many schools because there is a much higher percentage of females than males that partake in the activity (“Samantha Lauriello”).
It was November 5th, 2013 – it was my cross country league meet. I was running the hardest, the fastest, and with more intensity than I have ran with the first three years of my cross country career combined. It was the hardest course in Michigan, but it seemed easy to me as I practiced on it every other day. The competition was at least thirty seconds behind me as the three-story hill was too big of a challenge for them. The screams and cheering of the crowd fueled my adrenaline and I hit my runner’s high. I had tackled the hill for the final time and the crowd was screaming louder than I have ever heard, which caused me to power up the hill, then I stopped in my tracks. I realized what they were screaming about. There was someone, or something, hunched over my coach’s body. It looked human, but there was something off about the figure. The “thing” turned around and looked at me. It was pale, fit, had red eyes, and was covered in my coach’s blood and intestines. My heart stopped. What the hell? Then, I ran. It chased me. I didn’t have time to think about where I was going or what I had just seen, I just ran as fast as I could and as far as I could get. I heard screaming from the other runners and other onlookers, and when I glanced back to see if the thing was behind me, it wasn’t. I ended up in the parking lot, hotwired an older car (by popping
There is something beautiful about dance, but there is something more beautiful about dancing with others. When a group of 13 girls and 1 boy can come together from 14 different ways of life and move together as one, then a dance team becomes more than just a dance team. This was not something that happened overnight, it took time, effort and about 7 conversations with our coaches about our values. Without all of those components, this team would have never been the successful, fighting, dream team that we became. Explaining what it is like to be a member of the Kelly Kittens, almost like explaining the taste of water, it’s indescribable.
Have you ever left the country? Better question, have you ever left the country without your parents at the age of sixteen? Back in high school my drill team was invited to a competition on a cruise to Cozumel Mexico that was an experience I’ll never forget.
I have come to an understanding that a “sport” is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment, yet only typical “sports” that are played in high school or college really count. Dance consist of many different groups and styles. People can dance as a hobby, a serious passion, or you can dance as a career, teacher or participant. Also, many people don’t give recognition to the dancers who participate in the competitive dance world. Teams will practice over fifteen hours a week at times in order to perform a seamless and synchronized routine.
I had my first dance recital on the day I turned four. Now I don’t remember anything from that day, but I believe that that day is when I learned I loved to perform. I’ve been taking dance lessons since then, and many things that I do now involve performing in some type of way.
A jolt of energy rushed through my body and hit my heart when they call me up to get the team trophy. Not fourth, third, or second, but first place for the third year in a row. Being a captain of a team is an amazing experience. You get to see your team physically, mentally, and emotionally prepare for competition. It's a lot of hard work, but if you try your hardest, make all the practices and have a passion for cheerleading its worth it. Every year we take a few weeks to build a competition routine, the out come is incredible, but the celebration is the best part.