Paris Teams Taking Shape, Artistry with Dr. Laura Cappelle

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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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Catch up with these U.S. Championship Links
- Behind The Scenes: Final Day U.S. Championships 2024
- Behind The Scenes: Day One U.S. Championships 2024
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