Ever heard of a “kickline” team before? If not, you might be inclined to assume it’s basically a drill or cheerleading team.
But kickline is actually quite different.
While you might find elements of both drill and cheer influencing their routines, kickline teams are expressly noted for having their own unique style.
The Radio City Rockettes are, by far, the most famous kickline.
The Rockettes have been a kickline group since their creation in the 1920s and they’ve been performing in New York City since 1932.
The Rockettes have been known for their long legs and the perfect high kicks in unison.
Kickliners gotta know more than kicking.
A kickline team, “encompasses many styles of dance including jazz, hip-hop, pom and sequences of high-kicks. The high-kick style of dance may be seen as similar to that of the Radio City Rockettes.”
Some schools still have kickline teams.
Sanford H. Calhoun High School has an award-winning varsity kickline team.
These girls are dedicated and talented.
They are known as the Calhoun Colts Varsity Kickline and they know how to put on a show.
The 24 girls that made up the Colts Kickline team won second place at a competition with their amazing routine.
Or should we say, “illusion”?
The girls strut out right in front of the judges in four perfect lines with the utmost confidence.
These girls knew their practice was going to pay off because they had been working hard on this routine.
Once their music starts they know what to do. These girls are hitting every move sharply and in sync.
The kickline team is one.
Both with the music and their moves, they’re hitting every beat.
Their coach must be really proud while watching this performance.
The choreography is so much fun.
The kickline team has the choreography down perfectly.
One aspect of kicklining is the use of pom-poms. Half the girls have silver pom-poms and the other half have blue pom-poms.
The girls use them effectively throughout their performance and, man, are those pom-poms shaking!
Before you know it, the kickline has slowly separated to create a bigger stage presence.
The routine places four girls front and center who show that a kickline is more than high kicks by working a few pirouettes into the routine.
These girls know how to dance.
The team regroups into a diamond.
It seems like they are going to execute even more moves with their pom-poms, which would have been fun, but they had more tricks up their sleeves.
As they move their legs and pom-poms with the beat of the music they slowly start to act as one.
This dance routine is so impressive and the crowd is going wild for them.
All the dancers then form a circle on the ground and put one pom between their legs and the other between their intertwined hands.
In unison, they kick them up.
See how incredible this kickline routine is in full in the video below!
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