A majorette is a twirler baton that twists performances often accompanied by dance, movement, or gymnastics; they are mainly associated with marching bands during the parade. Majorettes can also rotate knives, fire blades, flags, light sticks, rifles, maces and flame sticks. They perform illusions, cartwheels, and flips, and sometimes spin up to four sticks at a time. Majorettes are often confused with cheerleaders; rotating batons are more closely related to rhythmic gymnastics than cheerleaders.
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Origin and development
Majorettes originally performed a typical carnival dance originating in Rhineland, where the young women who performed this dance were called "Tanzmariechen" (Dance Mary's) in German or Dansmarietjes in Dutch.
During the carnival the normal form of government is parodied. Also soldiers and defense forces have traditionally parodied as a means of protesting against Prussian occupation of the Rhenish area at the time. In Cologne, these imitations arise in particular to make Prussian militarism look ridiculous. And with a joke troop that does almost everything, it will make the company look stupid.
Tanzmariechen shows a clear origin in camp followers in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has a dynamic and important past. Around this time Germany has an enormous number of soldiers, and there will be young women in every regiment, who serve during the day as sellers and providers of food and drink and take household chores like washing clothes. At the same time, many of these women and girls offer themselves as prostitutes, which they will dress more provocatively, and they will dance for the soldiers.
Around 1800 more regulations began to appear in the army. Slowly this is also applied to camp followers. Increasingly, camp followers are a woman married to a corporal or person, and whose job is among other things "to wash linen," according to the old army's decision. Camp followers are no longer ordinary soldier whores, but neither are proper married women. In addition to taking care of the soldiers, he can still continue to entertain them in various ways.
In the carnival taunts, both officers and camp followers are depicted. The officer painted him as a cruel, fake-faced, arrogant, camp follower as a military but provocatively costumed woman, but also clearly known as a man: Tanzmarie.
At the end of the nineteenth century, carnival associations found further inspiration in the girls' cancellations performed at the theater at the time. It is a scantily clad young woman, accompanied by several military attributes such as a peak helmet and a military backpack, which shows a provocative dance in small groups. The persuading girl grew into a star like a nightclub. It can not be denied that the carnival with its Tanzmariechen has popularized and even parodied the glitzy performances that can be enjoyed only in major European cities. Girls and young girls again took on the role of tanzmariechen than men and they performed at the parade during the postwar carnival. The performing elements are added to the carnival, in part because of the rapidly growing ballet education. Majorettes or tanzmariechen begin to act increasingly in groups. Some parts of the Prussian military background are sometimes still reflected today in the movement, music or clothing of the generals.
The rather drunk camp followers who had accompanied the troops, had evolved into dance performances, but were still inspired by the Prussian army. This metamorphosis passes the transitional stage of the role performed by men as Tanzmarie. Although majorette currently has its roots in the carnival scene, the majorettes association broadly breaks this historical bond, and their profile more as a sports or dance club.
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The majority of fiction
- Jetta Handover (Kath Soucie) from the TV series Clifford the Big Red Dog .
- Adrian Lee (Francia Raisa) from the TV series The Secret Life of American Teenager .
- Vicky from the horror movie The Majorettes .
- Sissi Delmas (Jodi Forrest) from Lyoko Code (tried, but Jim expelled her for her awkward moves at XANA Awakens).
- Sakura Kinomoto from the anime series Cardcaptor Sakura .
- Bunty Carmichael (Catherine Tate) from the TV series The Catherine Tate Show .
- Lila da Mintgomory (Madonna Ciccone) from The MDNA Tour concert series .
- Aqua (Willa Holland) from the Kingdom Hearts video game: Birth By Sleep performs a baton baton routine with his Keyblade when he uses the "Rest Time" command. In the version that appears in Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix (based on the "Final Mix" version), doing this generates a trophy "Majorette".
See also
- Cheerleader
- Pep flag
- Color shield
- The dance squad
- Marching band
References
External links
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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