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The Old Plantation, a watercolour painting from the 1780s, showing a slave performing a stick dance on a South Carolina plantation.. Stick dance was a dance style that African–Americans developed on American plantations during the slavery era, where dancing was used to practice "military drills" among the slaves, where the stick used in the dance was in fact a disguised weapon.
Draft horse showing – type of horse show; Fine harness – American competition with high-stepping driving horses; Harness racing – A form of horse racing that uses a two-wheeled cart; Pleasure driving – A horse show class involving horses pulling carts
Bastoners in Barcelona Traditional Catalan folk dance Ball de bastons. Ball de bastons (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈbaʎ də βəsˈtons], stick dance) is the name of a ritual weapon dance spread throughout Europe and the rest of the Iberian area (cossiers in Majorca, Portuguese pauliteiros, Aragonese palotiau, Basque ezpatadantza and Spanish paloteo or troqueado) but mostly in Catalonia ...
Longeing is the activity of having a horse walk, trot and/or canter in a large circle around the handler at the end of a rope that is 25 to 30 feet (9.1 m) long. It is used for training and exercise. [1]: 194 A neck rope or cordeo is a rope tied around a horse's neck used to guide the horse during bridleless riding or groundwork. [3]
Stick dance may refer to: Stick dance (African-American), a dance developed by American slaves; Emirati stick dance, a traditional group dance of United Arab Emirates and Oman; Ball de bastons, a European ritual dance; Dandiya Raas, a dance of Gujarat origin; Jocul cu bâtă, a Romanian folk dance; Laathi nach, also known as the Tharu stick dance
Stephen Nedoroscik (aka "The Pommel Horse Guy"). At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the gymnast captured America’s heart helping the U.S. Men’s Gymnastics team win their first team medal (bronze ...
Both the Angel Dance and the Fire Dance originated in a trance ritual called the sanghyang, a ritual dance "performed to ward off witches at the time of an epidemic." [ 3 ] Also known as the "horse dance" men perform the dance by holding rods representing horses, while leaping around burning coconut husks, and walking through the flames.
A group of horses being led together by a single handler. Leads are used to lead, hold, or tie an animal or string of animals. A horse may be led by a person on the ground, sometimes called "leading in-hand," or may be led by a rider mounted on another horse, a process called "ponying." A "string" of animals refers to animals tied to one ...