[Tango-L] off topic: sky blue and white stripes...

[WHITE 95 R]

Social somersaults are done with feelings and passion. They are not done for 
the audience but only for the inner bliss. These somersaults are done always 
in a close embrace, leaning forward in a chest to chest position. They never 
appear fancy or showy and consist basically of very small movements. They 
never will feature a complete turn. These are truly the only true and 
authentic somersaults and are the predominant somersaults at huge events 
where only no name instructors teach the zen of somersaulting and all the 
best somersaulters go to do their somersaults. These are very easy to tell 
apart from the others as they are listed with * (asterisks) next to them.

The show somersaults are just that. Unnecessarily showy and contrived 
somersaults performed by travelling professional somersaulters. These 
somersaults are soulless, empty caricatures of the real somersault. They are 
principally found in places where master somersaulters teach their 
complicated routines to newcomers to somersaulting who then proceed to do 
these showy somersaults in the most innapropriate manner and interfere with 
the true somersaulting spirit in all possible ways. Look for double or 
triple flips, contrived appearance of body control and other ostentatious 
displays of physical prowess and technique.

with tongue firmly in cheek,

Manuel






>From: Rick Jones <rwjones52 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: rwjones52 at yahoo.com
>To: tango-l at mit.edu
>Subject: Re: [Tango-L] off topic: sky blue and white stripes...
>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:33:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
>astrid <astrid at ruby.plala.or.jp> wrote:Everybody in the Irish pub I was in 
>ended up almost doing somersaults themselves...
>
>
>Would that be social somersaults, or show somersaults?
>
>And while we're at it, let's have a debate on just what, exactly, social 
>somersaults are...
>
>And does anyone want to write a prelude to a somersault aesthetic?
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