Many of my friends have been raving about the artistry and musicality of Akiko Suzuki. Many of them have said she is the most engaging and charismatic skater on the ice since Michelle Kwan.
Many of my friends have been raving about the artistry and musicality of Akiko Suzuki. Many of them have said she is the most engaging and charismatic skater on the ice since Michelle Kwan.
She really connects to the music like no other! So passionate!
She connects with the music beautifully....but I'm not feeling the connection to the audience. Just my opinion..I don't feel anything when she performs..she's one of my favourites, but not quite MK material yet. Just sayin'.
Akiko was great in Westside story, but no one has the great musicality expressions like Yuna Kim does ... non one... for me at least
My favourite singles skaters tends to be very musically expressive. Guys Daisuke, Hanyu, Abbott, Lambiel, Weir, Browning are all great musical skaters. Ladies, certainly Michelle is one of the best of all time. Akiko is the strongest among the Japanese Ladies, I actually sense Kanako has good musicality but she is very brisk and clumsy in her expressions, she just need to refine and learn subtlety with finesse, pay more attention to key changes in the music and her performance will leaps and bound.
I think among the Russian babies, Liza T is easily the strongest but she need far better program to display it more obviously. Some Chinese babies like Zi Jun and Junior Korean babies have good basic musicality but they don't have the technical consistency to convey them properly in a winning program. Ashley has the goods among the US ladies. Florent Amodio is very musical as well, but unfortunately his style and program are never my cup of tea. I suspect with the speed Patrick is improving his musical expressions all the time, I may add it to my list in maybe 2 years more or less? Certainly musicality can be developed, but it is always easy to tell who's the naturally born vs the practiced by how they performed from the beginning of the season to the WC and in their exhibitions, especially in group performances.
Last edited by os168; 04-05-2012 at 12:17 PM.
I agree with a lot of what you say, especially the part about favorite skaters being the musically expressive ones. (My list almost exactly parallels yours.) I'd add Mao Asada to the list of musical skaters, though. It's why I continue to be devoted to her. I agree that Akiko is on this list, and I hope she continues to skate so we can enjoy her for a long time to come. Choosing between her and Mao is tougher. I can't decide which of them is the more musical, but fortunately, we have them both to admire and enjoy, so I don't have to choose.
Or is she the most musical skater since Yukina Ota.
I think Akiko is more musical. Actually, I don't think Mao is a particulalry musical skater. Her pretty position adds something to the music, but I think she doesn't really listen to the music performing.Originally Posted by Olympia
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