acrobatics

Is named acrobatics to the training and the pirouettes (cartwheels or capers) performed by the acrobats. An acrobat, on the other hand, is an artist who develops a routine where he shows different skills related to balance, strength, concentration and the ability to jump.

For example: "My son was amazed at the stunts he saw last night at the circus", "The trapeze artist's final acrobatics was shocking", "Marta spends her time practicing her stunts".

It can be said that stunts are a combination between art Y sport. Several millennia BC there were people who performed stunts in public, often for ritual purposes. Over time, acrobatics began to be associated with entertainment and fun.

Although humans often require many years of intensive training and a talent to perform impressive stunts, many animals move around their environment with great dexterity in a natural way, performing jumps, running at high speeds, climbing trees and climbing mountains as if it were Actions simple.

In the case of acrobatic gymnastics, the stunts become concretely a sport where athletes compete against each other and receive various scores. Competitors must perform different stunts, accompanied by music that allows them to develop their choreographies.

In colloquial language, any acrobatics is called action what does a demonstration of agility and dexterity to carry out coordinated movements: "With a stunt, LeBron James managed to score in the last second of the game and gave the victory to his team".

The singing it is one of the areas outside gymnastics in which a form of acrobatics can also be appreciated. It is understood by vocal stunts to any melody sung that exhibits great difficulty and that only the most gifted or technically trained people can sing.

Let's see below some of the elements that can be considered parts of vocal acrobatics, and that we do not usually find in popular music, except for a few people with great natural talent:

* jumps: When a song requires joining two notes that are at a considerable distance, it is spoken of jumps. For example, an octave jump occurs when we sing a do and the next or the previous one without a silence in between. In some works of baroque opera, there are leaps of more than an octave, which were generally written for castrated singers;

* colorature: This term is very broad, since it is used to refer to the ornamentation of sung music, as well as to name the works or those who perform them. A coloratura singer, therefore, is capable of performing various types of ornaments with his voice, such as trills, glissandos, chromaticisms and long jumps with relative ease and at high speed;

* high notes: in the extension of a lyrical voice, it speaks of several registers, such as the low, the middle, the high and, in the most virtuous singers, the high. These notes, which are usually only associated with female voices, cause a great impact on the public, given their high number of vibrations per second. When a free cadence includes a passage of coloratura and ends in an over-treble, it is possible to say that it is an example of acrobatics vocal.

The aerobatics, finally, they are risk maneuvers performed by aircraft pilots in exhibitions. These shows are usually performed with special aircraft, whose characteristics are appropriate for this class flights: "Tomorrow there will be a show of aerobatics and fireworks at the Punta Sur military base".