all this you came up with one Michelle Kwan exhibition? She is inspiring for sure, you must change profession career and go to story telling.
Has EoE TV series have similar theme like Wizard of Oz?
Here is a tape of her skate to the Bartok (The Miraculous Mandarin, not Mandolin, by the way)
So...should I go through and do a writeup of how that Miraculous Mandarin program could be altered to work for CoP? It would be a totally fruitless endeavor in this case, except for our own enjoyment of course.
you know this is one of the proofs of what we once said here, that all things in universe connect to the KwanMichelle says, "I have dreamed of Eden all my life," "I have stumbled through the night alone...then found a canyon full of silent stars." Eventually she realizes that this is the Garden of Eden -- serpent and all -- and "everywhere I go across the land...I am home."
-- so I might as well do a flying split jump and a catch-foot scratch spin and call it a day!
Thanks for the link to the Bartok. The choreography was a work in progress and would have gotten better by Worlds. In that GPF, Irina came on and did a standard ho hum Carmen and won. It was the Soviet's way to dominate all the disciplines.Here is a tape of her skate to the Bartok (The Miraculous Mandarin, not Mandolin, by the way):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWarys9kuzM
I can't imagine many other ladies trying music like this, and I give credit to Michelle for taking it on. Some of the footwork is really innovative, and the movements all work exceedingly well with the rather hectic music. But if she had done this instead of Song of the Black Swan at Worlds, it would have been our loss. I like Blades of Passion's idea of its maybe taking the place of the 2005 Bolero program. I've never found Bolero to be a really interesting piece. (Exception: when Torvill and Dean skated to it!) There's a lot of other Ravel music that's way more compelling. In terms of music expressing passion, I'll take the Liebestod from Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde or the balcony scene from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet over Bolero every time. At least the Bartok would have given Kwan originality and intricacy for her program.
Maybe Flatt is less worried about the historical Kwan and more worried about her current competition? Rachael's Summertime SP's final 2/3rd is all peppy and jazzy, just like Kanako Murakami's entire SP. However, Flatt doesn't have the speed or energy or verve to pull that off as well as Miss Sugar Overload Murakami.
They competed head to head 3 times this season. So Flatt and her team has had ample time to see first hand just how much she suffers in comparison to Kanako in the pep department. So maybe they said screw it, we can't take the heat so let's get out of the uptempo kitchen and hang out in the adagio meat locker instead.
Rachael doesn't even have to be peppy if she she wants to do a jazz number. There are plenty of jazz tunes out there, with a variety of tempos and moods to interpret.
Thanks so much, Blades! It's fun to imagine the program being done that way. I can't say I've ever seen a double axel-double axel combination (except for Kurt Browning, who used to reel 'em off in clusters), and it would be really effective.
I also love that you gave Michelle a three-jump combination. They were just coming into use around that time, weren't they? I remember Irina doing them.
This isn't a kid's music. This is an artistically mature program, and Michelle would have been the ideal interpreter. Dark sorceress, indeed! The audience and judges would have been transfixed.
Really? They've become quite common in the past several years under CoP.
Really? They've become quite common in the past several years under CoP.
But if she really wanted to take us to heaven, she would do the version by Louis Armstrong and the Hot Sevens. (Or any Hot Fives or Hot Sevens, for that matter. )