Paris Teams Taking Shape, Artistry with Dr. Laura Cappelle

The latest Paris Olympic Team news:

• Chinese Olympic Team: Qiu Qiyuan, Zhou Yaqin, Ou Yushan, Zhang Yihan, Luo Huan
• British Olympic Team: Alica Kinsella, Becky Downie, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Ruby Evans, Abi Martin
• We spend a lot of time talking about the amazingness of Becky making her third Olympic team at age 32
  • Watch Deanna Hong's documentary about Becky Downie's comeback this year
• Canadian Olympic Team so far: Ellie Black and Aurélie Tran
• German National Championships where all-around champ, Helen Kevric and veteran Ellie Seitz battle it out despite an incorrect D score
• Melanie winning French Championships in her Dior leo
• The Mixed Group draw for Paris qualifications where the defending Olympic bars champion, Derwael, ends that event!
• Hambuechen doing a Kovacs outdoors

Special Guest: Parisian dance critic and sociologist, Dr. Laura Cappelle on artistry in gymnastics

• • What she thinks of the artistry checklist
  • Her new book on the cultural change in ballet companies around the world
  • What team France choreographer, Gregory Milan's approach to minimize deductions and work with the individual gymnasts' movement style
    • See example Morgane Osyssek FX
  • Balanchine's lesson to "See the music and hear the dance."
• Creating a vocabulary about choreography and artistry for gymnastics; knowing when choreography is successful:
  • Is it a complete performance? Coherent and part of a whole.
  • Range and quality of expression; acting
  • Connectedness of movements
  • Construction of the choreography; is it just steps rather than a journey with a start, arc and end
  • Quality of movement; fluid movement
  • Successful choreography is agnostic of style
  • Does the style of movement fit the gymnast
  • Change of intensity, each step having a different weight, tempo variation

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