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Unicycle hockey is a team sport, similar to rink hockey where players try to hit the ball with their sticks into the other team's goal, except that each player must be mounted on a unicycle to play the ball. A team is composed of five players (plus substitutes), but there is no dedicated goalkeeper role (although one player usually stays back ...
The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers have been active for more than 26 years and sponsor monthly vintage Victorian dance classes and balls throughout the greater Boston area. Every summer, the group gathers in Newport, Rhode Island, for week-long dance training, seaside teas, and evenings enjoying the splendors of the Gilded Age.
Unicycle basketball uses a regulation basketball on a regular basketball court with the same rules, e.g., one must dribble the ball while riding. There are a number of rules that are particular to unicycle basketball as well, e.g., a player must be mounted on the unicycle when in-bounding the ball.
The word ball derives from the Latin word ballare, meaning 'to dance', and bal was used to describe a formal dancing party in French in the 12th century. The ballo was an Italian Renaissance word for a type of elaborate court dance, and developed into one for the event at which it was performed.
Since 2005, celebrities have battled it out in the ballroom for a chance at glory on Dancing With the Stars. Celebs including Kim Kardashian, Kelly Osbourne and Kirstie Alley have waltzed, tangoed ...
Victorian ballroom dances at the Gaskell Ball in Oakland, California. Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance types from the past as they are danced in the present.
The term 'ballroom dancing' is derived from the word ball which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means 'to dance' (a ball-room being a large room specially designed for such dances). In times past, ballroom dancing was social dancing for the privileged, leaving folk dancing for the lower classes. These boundaries have since ...
During the 18th century, ballet transitioned from a courtly dance of moving images as a spectacle to performance art in its own right. Ballet performances developed around a central narrative and contained an expressive movement that revealed the relationships between characters. This dramatic style of ballet became known as the ballet d'action ...