English Proyect - Dance Sport

💃 ¿Did you know what is Dance Sport? 💃

Group 2

Juliana Arias

Alani Gómez

Samantha López 

Mickaela Pantoja

Date: Thursday, June 17th, 2021

Sport is the physical activity that people carry out following rules, it is realized in specific places, an example is: ¨ SPORT DANCE¨. It is based on dancing different styles, on which people compete in couples or in teams. The dancers must dance professionally and elegant according to the rhythm of the songs which are chosen by the judges and the competitors don’t know anything about them. It takes place in a dance room; it demands a high physical and technical level. The first competition took place in Sweden in 1975 with 30 participants. In our days SPORT DANCE is practiced all over the world.

In sport dancing we exercise a lot of muscles. In the upper part what we exercise is the back and abdominals; shoulders, arms and forearms are not worked much during the dance and will not really be put to the test. However, some dances involve more often the arms like break dance or hip hop. The dance develops mainly the lower part of the body: going from top to bottom first we exercise the buttocks, quads, hamstrings and finally the dance develops the calves.

A famous sport dancer is Walter William Laird a major influence in the development of Latin American dancing in Britain after the second World War. He was a world professional latin dancer champion three times. He coached many successful dancers including Allan Tornsberg, Vibeke Toft, Espen Salberg, Jukka Haapalainen, Lynn Harman. He said that his first dance was with his sister Joan in the 1930s. His first professional partner during the war and after was Andé Lyons, and he asked her if she was keen on dancing. She said that by that time the Americans were in force in area. Like most of the girls, she knew how to Jitter Bug and she were having a great time. Also, she said that her answer for him was that she loved dancing and her was pretty good at it too, Walter offered her to teach to dance properly as he thought that she had potential, so that was how her second career was born.

In conclusion, Dance Sport respects directions, follows established and written rules, based on different types of dances such as: Samba, Cha-cha, Rumba and Two-step. In which the competition is in pairs or teams, besides, in the upper body what we exercise is the back and abdominals; the shoulders, arms and forearms are not worked much during the dance and will not really be put to the test, the lower body is used more for dancing.

Dance Sport fact: 

Girls: The costumes used by the girls in international competitions are made of different fabrics and decorations, they are costing up to 5000 dollars and have up to 10,000 Swarovski crystals.

Boys: They wear a leotard or shirt that matches the girl's wardrobe, they use dance shoes that are also made of leather and are flexible. They have a Cuban type heel of 3 to 5 centimeters.

Sources of Research:

🕺 Wikipedia contributors. (s/f). Recuperado el 22 de junio de 2021, de Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia website: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Laird

🕺 Wikipedia contributors. (s/f-b). Recuperado el 22 de junio de 2021, de Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia website: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baile_deportivo

🕺 5 things you should know about sports dancing. (s / f). Retrieved June 22, 2021, Blogspot.com website: http://bailedeportivounam.blogspot.com/2015/02/5-cosas-que-debes-saber-del-baile.html?m=1