CHEERDANCE

OBJECTIVES:
• Distinguish cheer dance to other competitive
dance sports;
• Identify the elements and skills of cheer dance;
and
• Enumerate ways of keeping safe before, during
and after the cheer dance.
CHEERDANCE:
• Dance competitions are where dancers show off and
compare their skills with others. Depending on what is
required of the dancers, competition is the main
focus. Several dance genres such as cheer dance,
ballroom dance, street dance, and hip-hop dance are
done not just for entertainment but for competition
as well.
• Teamwork • Dance
• Grace • Jumps
• Style • Cheers
“A good cheerleader is not measured by the height of her jumps but by the span of her
spirit.”
Author Unknown
CHEERLEADING:
• Cheerleading is an event that consists of cheers and organized
routines for sports team motivation, audience entertainment, or
competition. The routines contain many components of cheers,
jumps, dances, gymnastics, and stunting. The purpose of this is to
encourage the spectators of events to cheer for sports teams during
games. The yellers, dancers, and athletes involved in cheerleading are
called cheerleaders. When they are grouped to work as one, they are
called a squad.
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HISTORY OF CHEERDANCE:
• its origins can be traced as far back as the late 19th century, where in
the 1860s, students from Great Britain began to cheer and chant in
unison for their fight.
• In the late 1880s, the first organized, recorded yell done in locomotive
style was performed in an American campus. It was first seen and
heard during a college football game.
HISTORY OF CHEERDANCE:
• However, an organized, all-male cheerleading only transpired
when Thomas Peebles, one of the graduates of Princeton
University, brought the yell and the football sport to the
University of Minnesota in 1884. It was through the initiative
of Johnny Campbell, who was a student of the University of
Minnesota that cheerleading officially began on November 2,
1898.
HISTORY OF CHEERDANCE:

• Cheerleading for the first 25 years was an

all-male activity. It was only during the
1920’s when women cheerleaders
participated in cheerleading. A lot had
happened then in the world of cheerleading
in America.
DANCE TECHNIQUES:
• Depending on the competition requirements, various dance
techniques may be used in a cheer dance competition. Some
squads prefer contemporary dance techniques, while others
incorporate several techniques such as jazz, hip-hop, modern
dance, contemporary ballet, and even ethnic or folk dance.
However, cheerleading-style dances tend to be more rigid
and sharper compared to contemporary or pop-culture
dance styles. The emphasis is on the placement, sharpness,
and synchronicity of the movements.
DANCE TECHNIQUES:
• The World School Cheer Dance Championship, for example, requires
hip-hop dance styles. In the Philippines, the University Athletic
Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Cheerdance and National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Cheerleading competitions do
not require a specific dance style in the routines. The teams are given
freedom to choose their dance styles for their respective routines for
as long as they adhere to the safety and competition guidelines.
 HANDS
DANCE TECHNIQUES:
BUCKET
CANDLE
STICK
BLADE
JAZZ
HANDS
CLAP
CLASP