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by Greg Smith on 22 November 2008
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'From ancient times to the present, dancers have expressed ideas, stories, and rhythm with their dance. They use a variety of dance forms that allow free movement and self-expression, including classical ballet, modern dance, and culturally specific dance styles. Many dancers combine performance work with teaching or volunteering in order to fulfil social imperatives.''Dancers work with choreographers, who create original dances and develop new interpretations of existing dances. Because few dance routines are written down, choreographers instruct performers at rehearsals to achieve the desired effect' - Juillard Dance School.Rugby, on the other hand, is not intended to be ballet, is it?Rugby and ballet don't belong in the same sentence in my book but you'll be surprised to find theirs is a new era of rugby, I call it Rugbyish!Performance Rugbyish is just like ballet. It's choreographed, bleeeauch !When I hear that the Springboks design their outcomes for narrow margins against the Home Nations or that the All Blacks play a 'nail-biter' against Munster, I think WWF wrestling. I can't stand the stuff, I don't know about you.
I mean, if a sporting commission investigated the 'rehearsed' nature of wrestling, I'm sure there wouldn't be too many raised eyebrows at the fixed nature of the sport. I don't watch it, so I don't care ... but rugby is something else.Or is it ?Rugbyish is a performance sport just like WWF wrestling and I hope a sporting commission can be established to look into this before it's too late.Who wants to watch performance Rugbyish ?I'm told that the Springbok squad will try to perform another 'nail-biter' this weekend against England and that two outcomes have been choreographed. (Don't read any further if you'd like the surprise!)1. South Africa will run it to the wire - a victory by less than seven points, only if England can't lift their clogs and win believably.
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by Ivan Nel on November 24, 2008
What was predictable about the boks this weekend? Your credability as a writer is tarnished, hang up your pen.
by Greg Smith on November 24, 2008
ha, ha... they heard me and went to PLAN C... help South Africa to boost Scotland by showing they're the strongest Home Nations team for 2000 !
2009 even
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