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Floorwork is a feature of many kinds of belly dance, often involving the manipulation of a prop while lying on the floor and intended to showcase the dancer's control. Masha Archer , as part of an effort to change what she saw as the over-sexualized and exploitative features of belly dance, rejected floorwork because she did not want audiences ...
The floor exercise (English abbreviation FX) is the event performed on the floor, in both women's and men's artistic gymnastics (WAG and MAG). The same floor is used for WAG FX and MAG FX, but rules and scoring differ; most obviously, a WAG FX routine is synchronised to a piece of recorded dance music , whereas MAG FX has no musical accompaniment .
The Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park features a sprung floor. A sprung floor is a floor that absorbs shocks, giving it a softer feel. Such floors are considered the best kind for dance and indoor sports and physical education, [1] and can enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries.
You would find this most commonly used for public events, e.g. a gym hall used for a graduation ceremony or a club dance floor. A step above a wooden surface is the sprung floor. A sprung floor absorbs shock and can enhance performance and greatly reduce injuries.
Dance floor may refer to: Sprung floor, a floor to enhance performance and reduce injuries; Performance surface or marley floor, flooring suitable for dance or sport; Dance pad, a flat electronic game controller used for input in dance games; Illuminated dance floor, a floor with flashing illuminated panels; Portable dance floor, a mobile floor ...
Fragmentation (mass spectrometry), a technique to study structure of molecules; Fragmentation (weaponry), a feature of explosive weaponry; Fragmentation (medicine), an operation that breaks of solid matter in a body part into pieces, such as kidney stones; Fragmentation, the quantification by photoanalysis of blasted material; Hadronization ...
Solo dance – a dance danced by an individual dancing alone. Partner dance – dance with just 2 dancers, dancing together. In most partner dances, one, typically a man, is the leader; the other, typically a woman, is the follower. As a rule, they maintain connection with each other. In some dances the connection is loose and called dance ...
This dance style is also seen with eighth note polska in the border areas. A typical tune in the Swedish polska tradition shows a common structure, with two related eight-measure phrases, each repeated (a total of 32 bars constituting a single complete rendition of the tune), and the whole structure repeated two or more times.