Signature Programs

[daphna]

How would you actually define a skater signature programm/s? For me it's the programms that bring tears to my eyes, those that I can watch forever.
Hers' my initial list:
Kwan - so many do it for me, I guess Rach and Lyra from 1998 are the true ones, but also Tosca, Spartacus, and The red violin.
Wagner - her Moulin Rouge LP this year - showbiz at its best! Also her black swan LP, especially the 2012 worlds version.
Mao - Rach from Sochi, and the Lieberstrom LP.
Kim- James Bond and Gershwin from 2010, Les miserables LP, Adios noninos LP.
Takahashi - Blues for Klook - yummy! it's a crime againt humanity it didn't win worlds.
V&T - Masquarade and Black Swan in particular.
Jenny Kirk's Chicago numbers (as SP and exhibitions).
Carolina Kostner - her 2014 Ave Maria and Bolero, two spectacularly goregeous programms, and when she FINALLY realized her potential.
Lipniskaia's Schindler list was iconic last year, and will prorbably be the reference for the rest of her career.

now you go!

 

[desertskates]

Kwan's 1996 Salome. It said I AM HERE in the most beautiful way

 

[daphna]

ITA! Salome was her breakthrough programm as a senior skater. and there were so many spectacular versions of this number!

 

[Imagine]

Sasha - Dark Eyes, Romeo and Juliet, Malagueña, Swan Lake
Mao - Rachmaninoff (Sochi)
Yulia - Schindler's List
Shizuka - Turandot (both 2004 and 2006)
Yuna - James Bond
Carolina - Ave Maria

There are probably more but these are most memorable to me.

 

[Krunchii]

Mao Asada: Chopin (2014), Liebestraum, Bells of Moscow, Rachmaninoff 2
Yuna Kim: Danse Macabre, James Bond, The Lark Ascending, Gershwin, Les Mis, Send in the Clowns, Adios Nonino
Akiko Suzuki: O from Cirque du Soleil, Phantom of the Opera
Michelle Kwan: Lyra Angelica, East of Eden, Tosca, Rachmaninoff
Carolina Kostner: Other than her 2014 programs I love her Canon in D SP so much, I don't see people mention it much, but I can easily go back to this
Ashley Wagner: Samson & Delilah, Black Swan
Daisuke Takahashi: La Strada, Blues for Klook, Garden of Souls, Cyber Swan
Patrick Chan: Elegie, Four Seasons, (I wish he had performed La Boheme clean)

 

[Sophie-Anna]

Daisuke - many programs (La Strada, Blues, Sonatina for Violin, Moonlight Sonata)...Especially watching the competitions held in Japan...I just love the way, how Japanese fans love Daisuke
Abbott - 2014 Worlds FP...I really cried after watching this...
Verner - 2014 Worlds SP
Mao - 2014 Olympics FP, Worlds SP
Julia - Schindler's List
Joannie Rochette - both 2010 olympics programs
Sasha Cohen - 2006 Dark Eyes in Torino

 

[IcyEdges]

Daisuke - many programs (La Strada, Blues, Sonatina for Violin, Moonlight Sonata)...Especially watching the competitions held in Japan...I just love the way, how Japanese fans love Daisuke
Abbott - 2014 Worlds FP...I really cried after watching this...
Verner - 2014 Worlds SP
Mao - 2014 Olympics FP, Worlds SP
Julia - Schindler's List
Joannie Rochette - both 2010 olympics programs
Sasha Cohen - 2006 Dark Eyes in Torino

If the Abbott 2014 Worlds FP brought you to tears, you definitely need to see this. The original version of the FS from the 2012 Nationals. This is the version that makes me cry every time. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo60ty_2012-u-s-national-jeremy-abbott-fs_sport

I'll be back later with my other faves.

 

[noskates]

My favorite Michelle program was hands down East of Eden.....possibly because I love that piece of music so much but she also just nailed it every time.

Kurt Browning's Casablanca.
Jason Brown's Riverdance.
Takahashi's LP from 2014. Can't remember the name of the music but it was my favorite of anything he ever did!
Patrick Chan's Aranguez
Davis & White's Notre Dame de Paris
Jeremy Abbott's SP from 2012 - the swing number choreo'ed by Benjie Schwimmer

Probably more but those come to mind now. And I realize what makes me love a program is first the music and then second how the skater(s) interprets that music. I'm personally SICK!SICK!SICK! of tangoes and wish they, and Carmen, would be outlawed. POTO is starting to get on my nerves, too, no matter who skates to it.

 

[cebi26]

I think most of the times the most iconic ones come from those presented in Olympic season, Yuna, Mao and Carolina were gorgeous, Yulia LP, V/T Masquerade

 

[QuadThrow]

Virtue/Moir - Carmen
Davis White - Die Fledermaus
Arakawa - Nessun Dorma
Jagudin - Man with the iron mask
Savchenko Szolkowy - Pink Panther
Volosozhar Trankov - Black Swan
Lambiel - Wilhelm Tell
Yu na Kim - Dance de Macabre (To me perhaps best performance of all time)
Mao Asada - Rachmaninoff (Perhaps even better)

 

[cruzceleste]

Feel deja vu... didn´t we have this thread back in september- october

 

[iceberg]

When I wasn;t a member yet of this forum I didn;t know a lot have adored Mao's liebestraum particularly the 4CC.

For me her Liebestraum is nothing short of a signature or a masterpiece, her skate pierced to my very bones and gave me that sort of glimpse in heaven feeling. Most beautiful.

 

[cheerknithanson]

Yuzuru Hanyu's 2013-2014 SP "Parisian Walkways."
Jason Brown's 2013-2014 FP "Riverdance."
Kevin Reynolds' 2013-2014 SP "Back in Black" and "Thunderstruck." Specifically his performance from 2014 Canadian Nationals.
Kevin Reynolds' 2013-2014 FP "Excelsius." (Actually it's a mix of three songs from the soundtrack) Specifically his performance from the Team event at the Olympics.
Nam Nguyen's SP and FP 2014-2015 season.

 

[anthologyz]

iconic/signature programs: chen lu's rachmaninov '96. janet lynn's "prelude to the afternoon of a faun" early '70s. john curry's "don quixote" '76. shen & zhao "turandot" '03.

 

[silverfoxes]

Plushenko - Tribute to Nijinsky
Hanyu - I would pick R&J1 over Parisienne Walkways, personally
Yagudin - I would pick Winter over MITIM (I really don't like that program at all)
Javier Fernandez - Chaplin
Johnny Weir - Otonal
Brian Joubert - The Matrix

 

[anyanka]

Would also like to add ...

Lu Chen - Last Emperor & Rach 2
Mishkutenok / Dmitriev - Liebestraum & Rach 2
Mao - Rach 2 (is there a pattern???)
Kulik - Rhapsody in Blue
G&G - Moonlight Sonata
Bourne & Kraatz - Riverdance
Grishuk / Platov - Memorial
Yagudin - Man in the Iron Mask

 

[Sandpiper]

I personally define "signature program" as what most people would associate with the skater. They are not necessarily my favourite programs. And it's possible some skaters don't have one stand-out program... they just have a bunch of good programs.

Kwan: Rachmaninoff or Lyra Angelica
Arakawa: Turandot
Lipnitskaya: Schindler's List
Baiul: Swan Lake

Plushenko: Tribute to Nijinsky
Yagudin: Winter
Stojko: Dragon
Kulik: Rhapsody in Blue
Joubert: The Matrix
Hanyu: Parisian Walkways

Shen/Zhao: Turandot
Berezhnaya/Sikharulidze: Lady Caliph
Savchenko/Szolkowy: Pink Panther

Torvill/Dean: Bolero
Virtue/Moir: Mahler
Anissina/Peizerat: Romeo and Juliet? Or maybe their Flamenco OD from 2002
Bourne/Kraatz: Riverdance

 

[Marta25]

Weaver & Poje: Je suis malade
Virtue/Moir: Mahler
Carolina Kostner: Canon D

 

[Silvia451]

Tessa&Scott: Carmen
Davis&White: Scheherazade
Navka/Kostomarov: Tosca
Plushenko: The godfather
Lambiel: Four seasons
Denis: The artist
Chan: Phantom of the opera (probably no one would agree, but that one comes to my mind when you say Patrick Chan)
Mao: Rachmaninoff
Yuna: Les miserables

 

[jenaj]

I define signature program as one that is so closely associated with a skater that it becomes a basis for comparison anytime someone else skates to the same music.

Michelle Kwan-East of Eden, Rach medley.
Oksana Baiul-Dying Swan, Swan Lake
Janet Lynn- Afternoon of a Faun
Sasha Cohen-Romeo and Juliet
Shizuka Arakawa-Turandot (Violin Fantasy)
Mao Asada-Chopin Nocturne in E-flat major
Yagudin-Man in the Iron Mask
Torvill and Dean-Bolero