HOPE-3

LESSON
5
CHEER DANCE
This module will help you to identify the type of dances.
 Traditional Dances (Folk & Ethnic)
 Modern Contemporary
 Ballroom (Recreational and Competitive)
 Cheer Dance
 Hip-hop/ street dance
 Festival Dance

What is Cheer dance?

Cheer dance 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. While, to Dance is a
physical activity where one expresses emotions or gestures while performing
bodily movements usually in time and rhythm. On the other hand,
Cheerleading is the performance of a routine, usually dominated by a
gymnastic skill 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. Therefore, Cheer dancing, is rooted from cheerleading.

How did Cheer dancing start?

Cheerleading history is linked closely to the United States’ history of sports, its
sporting venues, as well as the historical development of overall crowd
participation at many Athletic events (history of cheerleading, 2015). However,
its origin can be traced as far back as the late 19th century where in 1860’s
students from Great Britain began to cheer and chant in unison for their
favorite athletes at sporting events. This event eventually reached and
influenced America (timeline of cheerleading, 2012). In the late 1880’s the first
organized recorded yell done in locomotive style was performed in an
American campus and was first seen and heard during a college

football game. However, organized all-male cheerleading only transpired when

Thomas Peebles, one of the graduates of Princeton University, brought the yell
and the football sports to the University of Minnesota in 1884.

Essentials of Cheer Dancing

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Arms and Hands Movement for Cheer dance

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ACTIVITY 2
Answer the following.
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1. Cheer dance is coined from the word _________and __________.
2. _____________is a physical activity where one expresses emotions or gestures while
performing bodily movements usually in time and rhythm.
3. ____________is the performance of a routine , usually dominated by a gymnastic
skill.
4. ____________is rooted from cheerleading.
5. ____________is the year where the first organized recorded yell done in locomotive style
6. The first cheerleading company was formed by _________________.
7. In year ____________ the first pep club was established at Princeton University.
8. ___________is an arm movement where both arms are bent; clenched fists facing each
other parallel to shoulders.
9. ___________is a feet position where one leg is bent, while the other leg is extended.
10. ___________is a jump whereas you jump, bring knees closer to chest, keep knees together.

EVALUATION

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