Hawaii is known for their hula dancing. It can also explain a love story, actually it can mean anything.
Bryce White HWST 107 11/1/09 Holo Mai Pele Before moving to Hawai’i I thought hula was just something that local natives did for the tourists at luau’s. I figured it had something to do with their culture but I didn’t know exactly what it was all about. If you look up hula in the dictionary it says that it is a dance form accompanied by a chant or song. It is more than just a dance with a chant! Way before the beginning of written word, knowledge was handed down through generations through the concept of hula. I feel as if the old ways of passing knowledge down is better than today in Hawaiian culture.
Before the dance lessons are ever started the Haumanas must prove to be in control of their mind, body, and sole. It is not until after they have proven to concur all the mental aspects of the Hula that they can enter the Hula Halau. The Hula Halau is a school for those who have shown a healthy understanding and strong knowledge of what the Hula mean in the Hawaiian culture. The selected boy and girl Hula students are taken to live away from their friends, parents, and families. This is to make sure that they become very dedicated
The Success of the 2009 Gymnastic Olympics “Records are meant to be broken and history is made”, often said by sports commentators. In the 2008 Gymnastics Olympics, it was what the athletes were set out to do. Traced back to ancient Greece, the fusion of athlete’s and aesthetics formed together to make an explosive sport to watch. In the 2008 Gymnastics Olympics athletes came from across the globe to continue tradition and make the Olympics successful. There were three main disciplines the Olympics were based on; artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and trampoline.
The stage was well lit, with no assortment of color on set. The performers did not have a specific place they were set playing, but they did use a wide variety of stage through each music piece. At the beginning of the performance, only three of the men from the class played a piece of music called “The Frame Problem”. This piece of music was composed in 2003, compromising of each player in a trio performing from either a drum, metal, or wood instrument. These players were performing stage left, each having their choice of instrument, the player on the left using a pair of bongos and a large drum, the middle player using a cowbell and drum, and the last player using a small marimba and drum.
She trains in the same gym that gymnast Carly Patterson trains in. Nastia’s parents were also olympic gymnasts so she was practically born to be a gymnast. Nastia Liukin is important to many people especially if you are a young boy or girl wanting to be a gymnast just like her. She has represented our country in many other countries. She is an olympic gold medalist that many people look up to.
The Price of Paperwork John Shepard (4110335) American Military University Jennifer McCoy 06/19/2010 The Price of Paperwork Morgan Hamm born in 1982 is an American gymnast. Morgan has been competing in the international arena since 1999 at the age of 17. Morgan and his twin brother are the only twins to compete in gymnastics at the same Olympic games. Morgan’s most notable competitions have been the 2000 Sydney Olympic games (team fifth place), and the 2004 Athens Olympic games (team second place). Besides the Olympics Morgan has a string of impressive competition standings; 2001 World Championships 2nd, 2002 U.S. Championship Floor Exercise 1st all around 4th, 2003 U.S. Championships Floor Exercise 1st All around 4th, 2003 Worl Championships team 2nd, 2004 World Cup Horizontal bar 1st and Floor Exercise 2nd, and 2008 U.S. Championships Floor Exercise 1st, Vault and Horizontal bar 3rd.
Unlike the Charleston that has a forward movement, the jitterbug has steps to the side and on the 5th and 6th count, and you do a rock step to the back. Although a lot of repetition is in both Charleston and jitterbug dances, the Charleston does not require the counting of the steps. Both of these jazz dances are energetic and performed to high tempo music, but the body moves differently. They do however process some of the same aspects as folk and modern dance. They are all free flowing dance styles.
Vickie Sears’ did a great job on explaining the Native American Elements throughout the story while explaining how Clarissa overcame her label. Clarissa started off as an unstable child, but now through her Native American culture she made a huge turn around and became a great dancer just like Molly Graybull. Clarissa learned dancing through experience, listening, observing and doing. Oral traditions were very important to Clarissa so she attended the women’s traditional. Last but not least Clarissa maintained her traditions, native language and culture by practicing dance and expressing that she was
My first wrestling match was a duel meet with one of our rival schools, Coral Gables; they weren’t the best but it served me well on applying the techniques I learned on those couple of weeks that passed. I weighed in that day 103 pounds, I was a light weight. And the lightest weight class is always the last one to wrestle.so I got to watch some matches before I wrestled which made me even more anxious. Finally it was my turn to show everybody what I got. The team score was dead even, so all the pressure was on my match, which even got me more pumped up.