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

[Ed Doyle]

Astrid - What have you done?  :-))

Ed


On 6/16/06, WHITE 95 R <white95r at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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