I haven't heard of any of those, but if it's passionate or joyous, I think Rachael could pull it off!
Off topic, but did MK really skate to "Winter", as in synonymous-with-AlexeiYagudin-Winter? Where can I see it?!
Michelle's skate is on YouTube, somewhere. Probably easy to find. It never occurred to me that she was skating to Yagudin's "Winter." I'll have to check that out!
Another tune-sharing tidbit: Christina Gao skated to a section of "The Yellow River Concerto," and I believe so did Michelle years ago, maybe when she was thirteen. I can't remember whether it was the same section, though I'm inclined to doubt it. I'm not AT ALL hinting that Gao is somehow in Michelle's shadow for choosing this music. It's perhaps the most famous symphonic piece composed in China (in fact it was one of only about two pieces in Western orchestral idiom that was permitted to be performed during the Cultural Revolution). So anyone of Chinese heritage could find it a logical piece to use for a skating program. It's an interesting work, and I was happy to see it being used again.
As for Rachael, I don't know either of the pieces MK's Winter suggested, but I'll check them out. I think Slaughter on Tenth Avenue would have worked for her with different choreography. It doesn't have to be a sassy, cute piece at all. In fact, it was premiered on Broadway by Tamara Geva, one of the top ballerinas of the time, and danced in the revival by Vera Zorina. In a later revival, Natalya Makarova danced it. Not that Rachael is balletic, but I'm just saying that none of those ladies were ever classified as perky.
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