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The Bent Creek Ranch Square Dance Team dancing at the Mountain Music Festival in Asheville, North Carolina. A square dance is a dance for four couples, or eight dancers in total, arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances are part of a broad spectrum of dances known by various names ...
Describing and mastering proper dance positions is an important part of dance technique. These dance positions of a single dancer may be further detailed into body, head, arm, hand, leg, and foot positions; also, these positions in a dance couple can additionally take into account connection , the relative orientation of partners, and ...
Dance moves or dance steps (more complex dance moves are called dance patterns, [1] [2] dance figures, dance movements, or dance variations) are usually isolated, defined, and organized so that beginning dancers can learn and use them independently of each other. However, more complex movements are influenced by musicality and lyrical relevance ...
Rodeo slacklining is the art and practice of cultivating balance on a piece of rope or webbing draped in slack between two anchor points, typically about 15 to 30 feet (455 to 915 cm) apart and 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 cm) off the ground in the center.
The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in each line. Rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". "Iambic" indicates that the type of foot used is the iamb, which in English is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as in a-BOVE). "Pentameter" indicates that each line has five "feet".
Each of the routine types has a different emphasis, but all include tumbling and dance as elements. The different routine types are as follows: Balance (formerly known as Static) – A balance routine requires that certain poses or 'balances' and must be held static for a specific duration.
[8] [9] This is especially true at the corners of the dance floor: the amount of the right turn is effectively only 3 ⁄ 4 of a full turn, and the amount of the left turn is effectively as much as 5 ⁄ 4, because the LOD changes its direction by 90 degrees to the left (CCW).
World Dance Council. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 2, 2015; Picart, Caroline Joan (2006). From Ballroom to Dancesport: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body Culture. Albany: State University of New York. ISBN 978-0-7914-6629-2. "WD&DSC Competition Rules". World Dance and DanceSport Council. Archived from the original on August 28, 2003