Title: Participating in the World ‘Gymnastics For All’ Festival, the Gymnaestrada: A Celebration of a Dialogical, Episodic-Perpetual Identity
Abstract: With the aim of engaging in a week of group gymnastics, around 20,000 gymnasts from 55 countries came together in Lausanne, Switzerland, in July 2011, to take part in the 14th World Gymnaestrada. Every four years, gymnasts from all over the world meet to demonstrate the diversity of group gymnastics in a purely non-competitive environment. The World Gymnaestrada is the official worldwide event of Gymnastics for All, the recreational, non-competitive branch of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) (Schwirtz 2006). Also called general gymnastics, Gymnastics for All offers diverse movement opportunities for people of all ages, involving both gymnastics with and without apparatus as well as gymnastics and dance. Within the International Gymnastics Federation, this form of gymnastics is recognized as an area in its own right, coexisting side by side with elite, competitive forms of artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, trampoline and aerobics (Schwirtz 2006).
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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