Winnie Colleano 1939
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Elena Panova 1988
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Stephanie Gasparoli 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCLOm1uYo88
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Emma Henshall 2009 performing at the 30th Festival Cirque de Demain, where she took home the Gold Medal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bem8xe3jHg
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No matter how many twists and flips and ‘drops at the front of the swing’ modern swinging artists have now–no one has an ankle drop as sick as Winnie Colleano’s
oh, that heel hang! So true, and without a line or blocks in her shoes to assist that – just in case – moment. The act is so simple with not much regard to form or choreography; then she pulls that heel drop. twice. I must say, I exhaled when she descended and I saw the net. Winnie, you are a hero for the working class and angles alike.