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CHEERDANCE

2. CHEERDANCE • is coined from the words, CHEER and DANCE. • To cheer is to shout out words or
phrases that may help motivate and boost the morale of a playing team and perform better during a
game. • Dance, on the other hand, is a physical activity where one expresses emotions or gestures while
performing bodily movements usually in time with rhythm.

3. CHEERDANCE • Cheerdancing rooted from cheerleading - performance of a routine, usually

dominated by gymnastic skills such as jumps, tumbling skills, lifts and tosses combined with shouting of
cheers and yells to lead the crowd to cheer for a certain team during a game or sport.

4. CHEERDANCE • Today, cheerdancing is identified as one of the most spectacular events in one of the
biggest collegiate sports events in the country, the UAAP (University Athletic Association of the
Philippines).

5. ARMS/HAND MOVEMENTS • Beginning stance and cheer stance • “T” and half “T” positions • Clasp,
clap, overhead clasp, low clasp • Touchdown, low touchdown • High “V” and low “V” • Tabletop and
punch, etc. • “L” and diagonal positions

6. LEGS/FEET POSITIONS • Feet Together • Feet Apart • Dig (front and side) • Hitch, Liberty, and Scale •
Lunge (front and side) • Knees and Hips position

7. ESSENTIALS OF CHEERDANCING

8. ESSENTIALS OF CHEERDANCING

9. CHEERDANCE BASICS (GYMNASTIC SIDE) JUMPS • Tuck • Star/spread eagle • Pike • Split • Hurdle
Jump/Hurkie • Toe Touch Jump

10. CHEERDANCE BASICS (GYMNASTIC SIDE) Pyramids Composition: Flyer Base Spotter Levels: One-and-
a-half high two-high two-and-a-half high

11. STEPS IN EXECUTING A PYRAMID • Setting up (Preparing to lift) • Load (Actual lift) • Hit (Striking for
a final pause) • Dismount (To move down by the flyer)

12. CHEERDANCE BASICS (DANCE SIDE) Hip Hop Basics Jazz/Classical Dance Basics: • Bounce (Downrock)
● Tendu (point) • Groove (Toprock) ● Pliē (knees slightly bent) • Power moves: ● Grand Plie (full knees
bent) - Pump ● Relevē (heels raised) - Lock ● Piquē (Raising a knee) - Point ● Battement (Kicks) - Curl ●
Ball Change and Chassē • Freezes ● Piroutte and Chainē (Turns)

13. Tendu Plie Releve Pique Battement Ball change

14. Toprock Toprock Pirouette Chaine Chasse

15. CHEERDANCE BASICS (CHEER SIDE) • Cheering is the very essence of cheerdance performances. To
cheer is to make someone or a team motivated and encouraged. It boosts, salutes or acclaims the
morale of individuals and teams. In cheerdance, cheering needs to be strong, loud, and metered so that
it will be delivered in time with rhythm or the music played.