OD - 12:00 EST - Saturday, November 21 | Golden Skate

OD - 12:00 EST - Saturday, November 21

dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Country
United-States
Starting info will be in reverse order of CD finish:

1 Andrea CHONG / Guillame GFELLER CAN 1
OD French Musette

2 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 1
OD Flamenco: Farrucas by Pepe Romero

3 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 1
OD Spanish Flamenco

4 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 2
OD American Country: Thanks God, I’m a Country Boy by Roy

5 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER 3
OD Das Kufsteiner Lied (Die Perle Tirols)
Mei Vatta i a Apenzeller

6 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI ITA 4
OD Tamurriata Napoletana
Withdrew due to health problems.

7 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 5
OD Russian Folk Dance: Yablochko

8 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 6
OD Ukrainian Folk Dance: Bukovinski Dance by Suzirya Ensemble; Dibro Vchanka by Suzirya Ensemble

9 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES USA 6
OD American Folk: Dixie Chicks Medley


Scores in the OD so far this season by these competitors, including info about falls and severe downgrades:

61.91 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR (First place, TEB)
56.34 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT (Second Place TEB)
54.59 Federica FAIELLA / Massimo SCALI (Third place, CoC)
47.51 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV (Sixth place NHK, includes downgrade to level 1 of twizzles)
46.55 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES (Sixth place TEB)
43.07 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL (Tenth place TEB), includes downgrade to level 1 of twizzles
42.64 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN (Tenth place CoR)
41.11 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE ( 9th place, CoC, including a serious and disruptive fall)
___ Andrea CHONG / Guillame GFELLER (No data from this season)
 
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dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Country
United-States
Order of Skate

as determined by CD results:

StN. Name Nation Rank Points

Warm-Up Group 1

1 Andrea CHONG / Guillaume GFELLER CAN 8 24.27
2 Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER 7 25.29
3 Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA 6 27.14
4 Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS 5 30.09

Warm-Up Group 2

5 Emily SAMUELSON / Evan BATES USA 4 31.47
6 Kaitlyn WEAVER / Andrew POJE CAN 3 32.18
7 Nathalie PECHALAT / Fabian BOURZAT FRA 2 35.55
8 Tessa VIRTUE / Scott MOIR CAN 1 40.69
 

SamuraiKike

Medalist
Joined
Jan 26, 2008
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't there any canadian folk music worth of using for the OD specially in the Vancouver olympic season?? All the top 3 teams doing flamenco and now Chong/Gfeller doing music from a soundtrack (how folkish!! :chorus:) with pseudo tango costumes makes me go :unsure::scratch:
 

mishieru07

On the Ice
Joined
Oct 23, 2009
Hmm so for the final flight we have Country, Flamenco, Country, Flamenco. :rofl: Better than the Country Country Country line up at TEB; I can't complain!

I'm excited to see W/P's OD at its full potential and of course for V/M to kick ***.
 

dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Country
United-States
Andrea CHONG / Guillame GFELLER CAN
OD French Musette

Finally got to watch this from IN's "ondemand"

Total lack of 'folk' character. .

She has white gloves and a little black dress with a strap on one shoulder secured by a large pouffy black flower on the shoulder and a thin belt.. He has a blue ascot, a white shirt, black jacket & pants.
Twizzles totally out of synch.

Rotational lift about his shoulders that rotates about his chest.

A lot of this is out of synch.

Score 40.39

Carolina HERMANN / Daniel HERMANN GER
OD Das Kufsteiner Lied (Die Perle Tirols)
Mei Vatta i a Apenzeller

Liederhosen on him, dirndl on her and pigtails
Very bro/sis appropriate

The second song, they were not able to keep up with at all (I'm not sure anyone could...)
She did more turns in the twizzle than he

Score.42.78 (total 68.07) into 1st

Madison HUBBELL / Keiffer HUBBELL USA
OD Ukrainian Folk Dance: Bukovinski Dance by Suzirya Ensemble; Dibro Vchanka by Suzirya Ensemble

Typical Ukrainian outfits. She has little white apron

First step sequence way too fast for them, and what they're doing has no Ukrainian character and is way behind the music
too much posing
Circular step very good-character and all. What happened? Trip by Kierffer with wide swinging leg?
Twizzles OK-I think. Missed part of it.

Score 44.49 Total 75.63

Ekaterina BOBROVA / Dmitri SOLOVIEV RUS
OD Russian Folk Dance: Yablochko

Both are Russian sailors
Starts well. Nice heel and toe action, typical of sailor dance
She trips and Falls. He helps her up
Twizzles out (they're rather shaken)
Ends OK

Score 45.92 Total 76.01 1st place -2.00 deduction
 
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life684

Final Flight
Joined
Nov 8, 2007
I liked S/B over W/P. I thought music was getting better over W/P. They got standing ovation.
 

snowflake

I enjoy what I like
Record Breaker
Joined
Nov 10, 2008
I thought they were not allowed do use props like W/P did with the fan?
 
Joined
Jun 21, 2003
Or some First Nation people dance/music?

I think that would be very challenging. I believe that Native American dances are by and large communal celebrations. That is, they consist of very simple steps repeated over and over -- the point being that everyone in the community takes part, babies, old people and everyone in between regardless of skill.

In constrast, many European folk dances became more and more intricate over the years, leading to troops of professional entertainers who performed before audiences. I don't think there is a Native American equivalent of Michael Flatley, for instance.

Probably too much of a generalization, but still, I think it would pose a challenge to the choreographer.
 
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