I’ve written before about the surprising, delightful and
unexpected entertainment you find on the streets here. It might be a drum corps with jugglers on
stilts (Drum Parade) or an installation of bustiers
(Bustiers) or a huge range of musicians in the Métro (Klezmer Band) or a rollerblader with very fancy footwork
(Rollerblader) or who knows what!
Well, this afternoon the “what” was a group of about
eight very brave gymnasts/drummers taking their act up and down the stone-paved
rue Montorgueil. There I was, drinking a
café and minding my own business, when they set up shop right across from
me. Shirtless and very muscular (with several
of them sporting knee braces), they proceeded to leap and karate-kick and
perform aerial flips and twists and other maneuvers that I don’t know how to
describe, while their pals gave them rhythm on drums and tambourines. Did I mention that they were doing this on stone
pavement? (No wonder that some of them were wearing knee braces.) I almost had to avert my eyes, I was so
afraid that one of them would break something. (I can't handle circuses either.)
I should have pulled out my camera right then, but fear
of capturing a gruesome scene prevented me!
They did move around the corner, and I managed to capture a few seconds of
video for you. But you should have seen
them up close, and YOU should have captured video that I could watch later (once
you could be assure me that it didn’t contain any nasty injury scenes!).
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