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[Joesitz (RIP)]

He's using the Rodion Shchedrin version of the music, which was written for the Carmen Suite ballet choreographed for RS's wife, Maya Plitsetskaya, by Alberto Alonso. While Lysacek's gestures aren't identical, they are related to those Alonso choreographed in the ballet.

Yes, yes. I should have recognized that. I saw Alicia dance it at the Met. I had to get past the Cuban pickets outside to see her. Critics were not kind to it, but I loved Alberto's choreography. I think Plitseskaya has a tape of it as does Alicia.

Joe