Does that make her less of an artist? No. When I chose 'Artist' as a category, and I apologise as I should have written what it meant to me, it was meant to represent just what Sandpiper said. It's about the skater and the audience and their ability to listen to the music and therefore move themselves and their audience with their performance, their interpretation of the piece (an internal monologue I suppose) and a projection of their style- their signature on the ice. os168's definition of artistic is basically that Kim is uncompromising in what she did in her career. but like Sandpiper has pointed out- we don't know that for sure. How do we know that Kim compromised with David Wilson over what choreography she used? With Orser on how she should layout her jumps? Also, she skated to a rulebook written by the ISU! There already was a compromise from the beginning because Kim and all the skaters in competition had to skate by the bullet point. This argument would have more merit to it had Kim skated on her own, resisted the ISU game rules, choreographed her own programs, skated without a coach in competitions. I can see where he is coming from, but its a very narrow argument.
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