Really Unique Figure Skating Programs

[QuadThrow]

Kim Lucine: Super Mario (in addition a ballon came from above during the program)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh4gQn8AKH4


Zhiganshina/gaszi: Zombies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgoG_v34kDA

 

[StitchMonkey]

Kim Lucine: Super Mario (in addition a ballon came from above during the program)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh4gQn8AKH4

That is not weird that is awesome!

Actually, if you are familiar with the games, his program is really well down in the sense he has a lot of subtle but appropriate references to it. Like timing a jump such that he is in the air when the sound of your character breaking a block is made and times the landing so that it matches the sound of getting a power up. Something common in the games. Break the block, power up comes out and you run into it.

He does a lot of movements and gestures that match the character/music from the game. I actually looked at speed run throughs of the game to see if the music cuts matched any of the paths taken. There is one part that really does sound/look like he is deliberately trying to match a common pattern of taken at one point, and it was enough I wanted to look for more things that lined up. From a gamer stand point he really did an awesome job. He did not just skate to the music, he created a program that goes with the music and the original source of the music.

 

[QuadThrow]

That is not weird that is awesome!

i like it, too. i have seen it live at budapest. real fun and superb interpretation nad choreography.

It is all about the definition of the word "weird".

it is a pity that the most world class skaters do not have the heart to skate such extraordinary programmes with special choreography. Always the same music, always the same order of elements

 

[Meoima]

Should we ask the admin to change this thread's title into: The most creative programs ever?

 

[iluvtodd]

If you're talking "most creative," I would say "Fallen Angels" - Melissa Gregory, Denis Petukhov, & Johnny Weir @ the Marshalls Spring Show in Reading, PA a few seasons ago.

 

[dorispulaski]

No one has yet mentioned the ice dance programs of Zoe Blanc and Pierre Loup Bouquet of France. They were not particularly good skaters, but their programs were interesting!

2008-2009 particularly
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=/#/watch?v=zHURPOyeAUE

and 2010-2011
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFqx0zvJ88k

2005-2006
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=/#/watch?v=7KbNSLWEXn8

2007-2008
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=/#/watch?v=KGgcx-T-XK0

2009-2010
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=/#/watch?v=xjc5YuqONpk


An interview with their choreographer Karine Arribert-Narce
http://alpesinfosports.free.fr/?p=695

An exemple : regarding Blanc/Bouquet’s program last season, I have been told I was doing things the wrong way round… Look, we are perched on our mountain, our projects are thought-out for days on end, we work with Russian dance teachers who are exceptional. Then we go to French Masters (2010) where we present our programs. And here we are told : « oh but we have to agree with your music « .

AIS : Agree on what ?

KA : Determine if the music is OK or not. I have been kindly told that judges had to be an integral part of the project, and that, only then, could they adhere, believe and support. This is the pep talk I got from everyone. In fact, I am a free electron, a bit crazy, and since we hold on to our freedom, nobody takes the risk to approach us. [Inseparable from her pupils, Karine says “we” as soon as she talks about her skaters]. I hadn’t realized what the rule was, I thought I had to elaborate a project, along which we would build programs, and afterwards only, we would be judged. When we were juniors, we were really free. Do you know what I have been told ? That Zoé and Pierre-Loup were getting deductions because there was no change of rhythm in their programs. We had a competition here and I brought an international judge in the dressing room. I played their music, along with a metronome : “I’m going to show you your own incompetence”. Judges in ice dance are amazingly incompetent. And I can’t stand it. When I created Zoé and Pierre-Loup’s FD to Grand Corps Malade’ slam, I was sent for a meeting where I was told : impossible, you’re crazy, there is no rhythm, and so on… We were in touch with Grand Corps Malade on the Internet and we asked him to send a mail, explaining that his song indeed did had rhythm, otherwise singing would have been simply… impossible. Grand Corps Malade’s phrasing is systematically one beat behind his music. The music starts at 1, the phrasing starts at 2. I can tell you that with Zoé and Pierre-Loup, we have worked on that for months. Our intention was precisely to make the most of this musical lapse [she sings to demonstrate]. And at the first competition of the season, I’m told there is no rhythm ? When it comes to this point, I’m done, it doesn’t interest me anymore. I’m willing to debate a lot of things, but with valid arguments. I’m willing to discuss “well, it wasn’t flowing enough”, but I want to discuss with competent people and it is never the case. Didier Gailhaguet often blames me for not being on the right path, and he is right. In a way, the journey in itself is much more important to me than the destination. A medal or a title won thanks to conventional stuff, hmm not so good. When you work six hours a day, if it isn’t interesting, if there is no progression, you blow a fuse. All season, we work like crazy, we build a project which is so rich, we have the possibility to extrapolate in every direction, it’s impossible to get bored. True, the result always differs a little from the original idea, but this is much more interesting to me than raising World champions. True, right now, with Zoe and Pierre-Loup, we have come to a point where choices have to be made. These choices are tough.

 

[FireOn]

Olga Markova in leopard costume
Just unique, even weird

 

[dorispulaski]

Olga was definitely one of a kind!

 

[silverfoxes]

Olga Markova in leopard costume
Just unique, even weird

I guessed she was from St. Petersburg before the commentator said it. Animal print + avant-garde weirdness is quite a common style there.