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- Sep 22, 2010
I just watched this fluff piece on Kristi Yamaguchi's 1992 Olympic program, and how she and Sandra Bezic developed her program over five days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-6BF1W_8I
Is this pretty typical of how choreographers put a program together? I wasn't expecting it to be so collaborative and organic. I had this notion that choreographers would have the moves and steps largely planned out ahead of time and then they just tell the skater how to perform it. In this case, Sandra didn't hear the music cut until her first day with Kristi, and it looked like she was thinking of what moves should go with each musical phrase. She was developing the program at the same time that she was teaching it to Kristi.
Is this pretty typical of how choreographers put a program together? I wasn't expecting it to be so collaborative and organic. I had this notion that choreographers would have the moves and steps largely planned out ahead of time and then they just tell the skater how to perform it. In this case, Sandra didn't hear the music cut until her first day with Kristi, and it looked like she was thinking of what moves should go with each musical phrase. She was developing the program at the same time that she was teaching it to Kristi.