Your favorite program of all time?

[Antilles]

OOh, it's impossible to choose just one.

Dance: it's a toss up of three A&P programs, Romeo&Juliet, Man in the Iron Mask, and Carmina Burana. Since R&J is what sparked my interest in ice dance, I'll put that one first.
Men's: Kurt's Singin' in the Rain is number one, then Casablanca, Brick House
Pairs: hmmm, either Liebestraum or Rachmaninoff (I think that's the composer) done by Mishkutuniok (sp?)& Dmitirev, When a man loves a woman by Underhill&Martini
Ladies: I'll go with Katarina Witt's 1994 LP (tribute to Sarajevo). It was so moving. Same with Michelle Kwan's Fields of Gold.

 

[Kasey]

As far as enjoyable programs, I can think of a lot, from Browning, Yagudin, Wylie, Kulik and some others. But for "favorite program of all time", for me, it is Rudy Galindo's 1996 National's long program....the design, choreography and technique all take a HUGE backseat to the emotion and pure JOY he showed during that program. Gives me a huge smile any time I even think of it.

Kasey

 

[anya_angie]

Paul Wylie's Bring Him Home and Apollo 13

Kurt's Singing In The Rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing program!

 

[anya_angie]

Kurt's Girl reminded me of this one:

Phillipe Candeloro's Braveheart.

 

[Germanice]

Are there any limitations when it comes to the number of my favourite programs?

Ice Dance:
Bolero - Jane Torvill/Christopher Dean
Missing I + II - Isabelle- and Paul Duchesnay
Air + Toccata (Bach) - Marina Klimova/Sergei Ponomarenko
La Strada - Susanna Rahkamo/Petri Kokko
Romeo & Juliet - Marina Anissina/Gwendal Peizerat

Ladies:
Sagt mir, wo die Blumen sind (Where have all the flowers gone) - Katarina Witt
Black Swan (SP at Oly's 1994) - Oksana Baiul
Beethoven SP ('95?), The last Emperor, Springbreeze,
Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2, Butterfly Lovers - all by Lulu
Moonlight Sonata - Fumie Suguri
Turandot - Shizuka Arakawa

Pairs:
Liebestraum - Natalia Mishkotionok/Arthur Dmitriev
Moonlight Sonata - Katia Gordeeva/Sergei Grinkov
City Lights - Elena Berezhnaya/Anton Sikharulidze
Lady Caliph - Elena Berezhnaya/Anton Sikharuldize
A tie between "Turandot" and "Nutcracker"
(just can't decide which one I like more!) - Xue Shen/Hongbo Zhao

Men:
Napoleon - Brian Boitano
Carmen - Viktor Petrenko
d'Artagnan - Philippe Candeloro
Don Quichote - Takeshi Honda
The last Emperor - Jeff Buttle
Dr. Zhivago (haven't seen his recent programs yet! ) - Johnny Weir

And almost! ANYTHING!!! done by Alexei Yagudin, Ilia Kulik
and Kurt Browning! (They just can't go wrong IMO!)

Anke

 

[hockeyfan228]

Ladies:
Afternoon of a Faun LP (Lynn)
Tchaikovsky Olympic LP Program (Fleming)
Shostakovitch Waltz SP 2004 (Sebestyen)
Masquerade Waltz SP (Cohen)
Addams Family LP (Czako)
Dream of Desdemona SP (Kwan)
1992 Olympic LP (Yamaguchi)

Men:
Don Q LP (Curry)
Swan Lake SP (Klimkin)
St. Petersburg 300 LP (Plushenko)
Alladin LP (Kulik)
Petrouchka LP (Klimkin) and all of its more recent incarnations (Sunny Boy, Dr. Diesel) I tend to think of them as one, long program.
Winter (Yagudin)
Rondo Cappriccioso (Weir) for the footwork, but I really love the rest of Valse Triste as much
Only Time EX (Klimkin)
Unchained Melody EX (Weir)
Sex Bomb EX (Plushenko)
Naqoyqatsi LP (Buttle)
Elgar Cello Concerto LP (Buttle)
Swan Lake LP (Galindo)
I'm Your Man show (Beacom)
Casablanca (Browning)
Barber Adagio SP (Savoie) (Just remembered.)

Pairs:

Peer Gynt SP (Totmianina/Marinin)
Chaplin (2001 CoR version-Berezhnaia/Sikuharlidze)
Lady Caliph SP (Berezhnaia/Sikuharlidze)
Vocalise (Gordeeva/Grinkov)
Moonlight Sonata LP (Gordeeva/Grinkov)
Addams Family LP (Abitbol/Bernadis)
Rachmaninoff 1994 Olympic LP (Mishkenienok/Dmitriev)
Rachmaninoff (Symphonic Dances?) 2003 LP they dropped for the re-worked Chess (Petrova/Tikhonov)
Liebestraum (Protopopovs)

Dance
Bolero FD (Torvill/Dean)
Rhumba OSP (?) (Torvill/Dean)
Six Gestures short film (Torvill/Dean) [got the wrong name the first time]
2001 Worlds FD (Usova/Zhulin)
Summertime Blues OD (Usova/Zhulin)
Baroque OD (Denkova/Staviyski)
Air FD (Klimova/Ponomorenko)
Swan Lake Pro (Klimova/Pomonorenko)
Tchaikovsky FD (Rakhama/Kokko)
Frida (Delobel/Schoenfelder)

I'm sure I've forgotten some.

 

[Matt]

I guess I'm a "Don Quixote" lover because the 2 programs that stand out in my mind over the past few decades are John Curry's LP & Klimova & Ponomorenko's exhibition of the ballet dancers warming up, performing & leaving the "stage" knowing they had done well.

I'm the opposite. I haven't seen John Curry's LP, but all the Don Quixotes I've seen in recent years haven't been all that great or just haven't done it for me. I'm also not a big fan of Minkus's music (probably a combination of overuse and bad memories from ballet workshops )

My favourites so far have been:

Men:
Jeff Buttle-Naqoyqatsi (screw the quad critics---that choreography is so absolutely fantastic he doesn't need it )
Kevin van der Perren-Robin Hood
Alexei Yagudin-Man in the Iron Mask (especially at SLC), Lawrence of Arabia
Evgeni Plushenko-Bolero SP (the only one who's come close to T&D)
Johnny Weir's last 2 FPs

Women:
MK: Spartacus, '98 Moderato, '01 EOE SP, Aranjuez
Joannie Rochette-Firebird
Tonia Kwiatkowski-Madame Butterfly SP
Sasha Cohen-R&J Exhibition
Slutskaya-Serenade SP (ok, so I just like the music :agree: )
Oksana Baiul-White Swan for 2004 SOI Tour
Kristi Yamaguchi-Malagueña
Midori Ito-'90 Scheherazade

Pairs:
Berezhnaya & Sikharulidze: Chaplin
Sale & Pelletier: Love Story, Tristan und Isolde
Anything & everything Shen & Zhao have done since '03 Worlds Turandot
Totmianina & Marinin: '05 SP & FP
G&G: entire repetoire

Ice Dance:
Anything and everything Torvill & Dean have ever done, thought about doing, will continue to do......(accept no substitutes, baby )
Drobiazko & Vanagas: Spente la Stelle (FP from '01, I think...best Tosca I have yet seen)
Bourne & Kraatz: Riverdance, Cell Block Tango
Fusar-Poli & Margaglio: Braveheart/LOTD
Belbin & Agosto: Shadritsa (this year's FD)
Grushina & Goncharov: Air on a G String/Storm ('05 FD)
Delobel & Schoenfelder: Frida ('05 FD---find a copy of this one if you can)

 

[hockeyfan228]

I'm the opposite. I haven't seen John Curry's LP, but all the Don Quixotes I've seen in recent years haven't been all that great or just haven't done it for me. I'm also not a big fan of Minkus's music (probably a combination of overuse and bad memories from ballet workshops )

I hate the music to Don Q, too. Unfortunately, my favorite program by my favorite skater is to the music, so I live with it. Curry's program is nothing like the recent ones. It was a masterpiece.

 

[njtoddfan]

I have a few favorites, but my all time favorite would be Todd's First Knight from '96 Worlds.

Other faves would be:
Michelle's Salome and Lyra Angelica
Todd's Carmina Burana SP, Il Mare Calmo Della Sera & The Glory
Gordeeva & Grinkov's Moonlight Sonata
Sarah's LP from 2002 Olympics (the name of the music escapes me at the moment.. LOL)
Belbin & Agosto's current FD

There are others, but I'm having a brain freeze at the moment.. LOL

 

[Mathman]

Hi, NJToddfan:agree:, welcome to Golden Skate!

Mathman

 

[iluvtodd]

YAY! Tara's (njtodd) here! arty: Welcome!

My number #1 is still Todd's First Knight 1996 Worlds (& the 1998 Goodwill Games), but here are my other favorites:

Todd - Carmina Burana/Mythodea (especially the expanded version at the Hershey's 2002 Spring Challenge), Lord of the Rings, 1492, Il Mare Calmo Della Sera, The Glory
Michelle - Salome, Lyra, Winter, Pocahontas, Hands, East of Eden, Dante's Prayer
Brian Orser - The Story of My Life, Orange Colored Sky, Headed for the Future, I Get a Kick Out of You
Paul Wylie - his Olympic free skate 1992, JFK, Carmina Burana, Apollo 13, Schindler's List, The Distance, Bring Him Home
Midori Ito - her Olympic free skate - 1988, her "Rain" medley -1992 Olympics exhibition
Fumie - her Jupiter program, her Mozart program
Yuka - Hatful of Stars, just about everything she does!
Kristi - The Blue Danube, Malaguena, Oh, So Quiet, Doop Doop
Roca & Sur - The Prayer, Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
G&G - Moonlight Sonata, The Man I Love
Shen & Zhao - Turandot, The Nutcracker, Mount Olympus program (1998?)
Kurt - Brickhouse, That's Entertainment (the one with "The Wizard of Oz" segment), Don't Fence Me In, Casasblanca
Elvis - Dragon, 1492 (1996 Worlds free skate),That's What I Like About You
Caryn Kadavy - Mambo Italiano, Still Coming Back to Me (or whatever that Celine Dion song is called)
Brian B. - 1988 Olympic free skate, Music of the Night, Shenandoah/They Call the Wind Maria
Scott Hamilton - I Love Me
B & K - Riverdance
Klimova & Ponomarenko - 1992 Olympic performances
T & D - Bolero, Hat Trick, Take Five
K & O - Masquerade Waltz, Carmen

 

[millyskate]

Pairs: shen&Zhao Turandot
Men: Kulik alladin, Joubert Matrix, candeloro D'Artagnan.
Dance: T&D encounters and other show programs pf theors.
Honorable mention to delobel and schoenfelder's FD this year. I love a pure, simple style for ice dance rather than the overly dramatic (A&P, most russians)or cheesy (b&k) style.
Women: Kwan Seherazade. Cohen SP at the 2002 olys. Lipinski, Hughes and Arakawas blinding winning performances.

 

[thisthingcalledlove]

Favourite Programs...

All right... I didn't divide them with discipline, as I'll just be thinking of the programs by name...

Sad Waltz- Kazakova/Dmitriev
Reverie- Gordeeva/Grinkov
Dark Eyes- Sasha Cohen; Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze
Return to Innocence- Bourne and Kraatz (I've always thought they should've rechoreographed it and done it as an FD!)
Muchachita- Grischuk/Platov (The ONLY dance I like by them)
Carmen- Krylova/Ovsiannikov
Carmina Burana- Anissina/Peizerat
Where Have All The Flowers Gone?- Katarina Witt
Red Violin- Michelle Kwan
Romanza/Fiesta Flamenco- Michelle Kwan
Rainbow/Scene from Summer Festival- Tara Lipinski
1492- Hartshorn/Sweiding
Turandot- Shen/Zhao; Shizuka Arakawa's 2004 Version (her 2002 version wasn't as nice); Meno/Sand
2nd Piano Concerto by Rachmaninoff- Chen Lu; Michkoutienok/Dmitriev
Jalousie- Sale/Pelletier
Swan Lake- Oksana Baiul; Ann-Patrice McDonough
Lincoln Portrait/Appalachian Spring- Brian Boitano
Rhapsody in Blue- Ilia Kulik (yes, the costume was ugly...but the skating rocked!)
Adagio- Matt Savoie
Bolero- Torvill/Dean
Spente Le Stelle- Drobiazko/Vanagas

 

[lulu]

Pairs SP: Lady Caliph-Berezhnaya & Sikharuldize
Pairs LP: Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto-Mishkutenok & Dmitriev
Pairs EX: ?
Pairs Pro: Night On Bald Mountain-Selezneva & Markarov

Dance CD: Blues-Usova & Zhulin
Dance OD: Libertango-Grishuk & Platov
Dance FD: Bach-Klimova & Ponarmenko
Dance EX: "Scarf"-Klimova & Ponaremenko
Dance Pro: "Adiago" 1992(?) Bestiemovna & Bukin

Men SP: Swan Lake-Ilia Klimkin & Armenian Selections-Alexandr Abt
Men LP: Dr. Disel-Ilia Klimkin.
Men EX: ?
Men Pro: Rubberband Man-Ilia Kulik

Ladies SP: Bauil-Black Swan
Ladies LP: "Adams Family"
Ladies EX: ?
Ladies Pro?

 

[BronzeisGolden]

Ughhh....I haven't been here in ages! Between TCAPs and the plague I thought I would never have another free moment in my lifetime!

Hmmm.....as indecisive as I am, I could never name just one:

MEN
SP: Johnny Weir's 04-05 SP (complete brain-fart on the music title)
Yagudin's "Winter"

LP: Paul Wylie's "Henry V"
Rudy Galindo's "Swan Lake"
Yagudin's "Gladiator"
Yagudin's "Lawrence of Arabia"

PAIRS
LP: Shen & Zhou's "Turandot"
Shen & Zhou's "Nutcracker"
M&D's "Liebestraum"
M&D's "Rach"
G&G's "Moonlight Sonata"

ICE DANCE
FD: T&D's "Bolero"

LADIES
SP: Kwan's "East of Eden"
Kwan's "Romanza"
Kwan's "Spartacus"
Kwan's "Dream of Desdemona"
Kwan's "The Feeling Begins"
Slutskaya's 01-02 SP
Slutskaya's 00-01 SP
Cohen's "Malaguena"
Chen Lu's "Claire de Lune"
Baiul's 92-93 SP (from 93 Worlds)
Bobek's 94-95 SP

LP: Chen Lu's "Rach"
Kwan's "Lyra Angelica"
Kwan's "Aranjuez"
Kwan's "Red Violin"
Kwan's "Tosca" (04 Nats)
Szewczenko's "Speed" (98 Champion's Series Final)
Lipinski's "Rainbow"
Yamaguchi's "Samson & Delilah"
Chen Lu's "The Last Emperor"
Kwiatkowski's "Bladerunner"
Slutskaya's "Tosca" (01 GWG)
Hughes's "Turandot"

 

[Germanice]

MEN
SP: Johnny Weir's 04-05 SP (complete brain-fart on the music title)

Finally got to see Johnny's two recent programs! Both of them blew me away completly, and what masterpiece his SP is! The music was somewhat familiar to me, but I couldn't remember neither composer nor title. Had to take a look at his website, it's "Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saens.

Anke

 

[Mathman]

The music was somewhat familiar to me, but I couldn't remember neither composer nor title. Had to take a look at his website, it's "Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saens.

No doubt you are remembering it as Michelle's LP music from her 1994-95 long program.

 

[Jessy]

It's great Germanice you could see both Johnny's programs and yes that sp was performed before by Michelle Kwan a few years ago but in her lp.

Jessy

 

[Germanice]

No doubt you are remembering it as Michelle's LP music from her 1994-95 long program.

Wow, thanx for the reminder!!! I've just re-watched my extensive collection of Kwan tapes and of course you're right!!! I should've known ... would you please forgive me, since every Kwan program is so incredible unique/original, innovative, always surprising and exciting to watch , it's really hard to have a view of ... and even harder to tell the difference between them ...

Let's talk about the presence now and celebrate Johnny Weir!!! The best thing coming from the US right now ... and popular among European skating fans after just one season!!! :yes:

Anke

 

[Germanice]

It's great Germanice you could see both Johnny's programs and yes that sp was performed before by Michelle Kwan a few years ago but in her lp.

Jessy

Thank you, Jessy!

I really both programs, well, his SP a little more!
Now I just can't wait to see his famous-"infamous" Unchained Meldody!!!

Anke