An acrobatics is a pirouette or a physical exercise where the strength, balance, jumping ability and concentration of the individual can be appreciated.
The exercises and pirouettes (somersaults or capers) performed by acrobats are called acrobatics . An acrobat, on the other hand, is an artist who develops a routine where he shows different skills linked to balance, strength, concentration and jumping ability.
For example: "My son was amazed by the acrobatics he saw last night at the circus" , "The trapeze artist's final acrobatics was shocking" , "Marta spends all her time practicing her acrobatics" .
What is a stunt
It can be said that acrobatics are a combination of art and sport . Several millennia before Christ there were people who performed acrobatics in public, often for ritual purposes. Over time, acrobatics began to be associated with entertainment and fun .
Although human beings usually require many years of intensive training and a talent that allows us to perform impressive acrobatics, many animals move through their environment with great dexterity naturally, performing jumps, running at high speeds, climbing trees and climbing mountains. as if they were simple actions .
In the case of acrobatic gymnastics , acrobatics specifically becomes a sport where athletes compete against each other and receive various scores. Competitors must perform different acrobatics, accompanied by music that allows them to develop their choreographies.
An aerobatics is a risky maneuver performed by an airplane within the framework of an exhibition.
The term in colloquial language
In colloquial language, acrobatics is called any action that involves a demonstration of agility and skill in carrying out coordinated movements.
"With an acrobatics, LeBron James managed to score in the last second of the game and gave his team the victory" is an expression that shows this use of the concept.
Singing acrobatics
Singing is one of the areas outside of gymnastics in which a form of acrobatics can also be seen. Vocal acrobatics is understood as any sung melody that exhibits great difficulty and that only the most gifted or better trained people can sing from a technical point of view.
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 called jumps . For example, an octave jump occurs when we sing one C and the next or the previous one without a rest in between. In some baroque opera works, there are jumps of more than an octave, which were usually written for castrated singers;
* coloratura : 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, glissands, chromaticisms and long jumps with relative ease and at great speed;
* high notes : in the extension of a lyrical voice, there are several registers, such as the low, the middle, the high and, in the most virtuoso singers, the high. These notes, which are usually only associated with female voices, cause a great impact on the audience, given their high number of vibrations per second. When a free cadenza includes a coloratura passage and ends in a high note, it is possible to say that it is an example of vocal acrobatics.
Risky maneuvers at air shows
Aerobatics , finally, are risky maneuvers performed by aircraft pilots in exhibitions.
These shows are usually carried out with special planes, whose characteristics are appropriate for this type of flight: "Tomorrow there will be an aerial acrobatics and fireworks show at the Punta Sur military base."