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GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

Paris Teams Taking Shape, Artistry with Dr. Laura Cappelle

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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
  • 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
    • 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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Transcript

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0:00.0

And first of all, the Chinese men's team keeping up the trend so far of the Olympic teams being

0:06.4

named where the men are messy queens full of drama.

0:10.1

Remember, the show is PG-13, so you might hear a naughty word or two.

0:15.0

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0:20.5

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0:26.8

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0:35.0

Olympic teams are being named.

0:39.0

Therefore, it is time to talk about grown ass women.

0:43.3

Becky Downey made her third Olympic team at age 32.

0:46.9

Ellie Black made her fourth Olympic team at age 28.

0:49.6

We have the Chinese Olympic team.

0:51.6

And Dr. Laura Kappelle is back from the Sarbal Nouveau 3 in Paris to

0:56.6

talk all about the artistry checklist.

0:59.1

It's June 17th, 2024 and welcome to the number one to the NASA podcast in the galaxy.

1:04.0

I'm Jessica and I'm here with Spencer from the balance beam situation.

1:07.5

If you're not familiar with the balance beam situation, Spencer has a clickable code of points.

1:14.4

A clickable, say that a hundred times fast.

1:16.6

Clickable code of points.

1:18.1

So if you're like Arichna, a stalled or boobdy-bub,

1:21.5

what is that?

1:22.3

You can just look it up at the balance beam situations

1:25.8

clickable code of points. I use it often. I highly recommend it. Thank you, Spencer, for your service.

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