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Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza, excavated by Le Plongeon in 1875, now displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach.
[p] Performed both for competition and exhibition, they are required to portray an Irish theme or item through the dance. [100] A figure dancing championship, for "newly composed dances that would be suitable for performance at a ceílí", was included at the first Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne. [101]
Queen Moo's name was drawn from the Mayan word for macaw, based on the bird imagery in the Mayan representations of her figure. [3] Le Plongeon took this as further evidence that Moo and Isis were the same figure, as Isis is often represented as a winged figure. [4] Chacmool means jaguar paw [5] and Plongeon believed the great cat was Prince ...
The word oireachtas means in "assembly" in the Irish language, and comes from the Old Irish airech, meaning "nobleman". [3] While the phrase can be used to refer to any cultural festival or gathering, as well as to the Irish legislature, in Irish dancing it has come to refer to major top-level competitions, and is often casually translated as "championship".
An amateur DanceSport competition at MIT. The dances that make up the list of DanceSport dances are performed competitively at amateur and professional levels throughout the world. Ten international style ballroom dances —five Standard and five Latin—are defined by the World Dance Council (WDC), which has world-wide membership of all ...
An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG, English:The Irish Dancing Commission) is the oldest and largest governing body for competitive Irish step dancing globally. [1] Founded in 1927, [2] CLRG is responsible for creating a standardised system of Irish dance, music and competition for its member organisations in 26 countries.
Miskel Spillman was just a regular 80-year-old grandmother from New Orleans when she hosted “SNL” in 1977. The winner of a contest and the only non-public figure to ever host the show, her ...
The 1979 U.S. Figure Skating Championships were held from January 30-February 3 at the Queen City FSC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Gold, silver, and bronze medals were awarded in four disciplines – men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.