Marina Zueva, coach of the Russian dancing couple Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov, shared in an interview with the agency "F-Sport" Anatoly Samokhvalov special look to modern ice dancing on harming them SuperDuper and image Sinitsina, which today is the classic Russian beauty and tomorrow everything can change suddenly.
'Victoria, maybe worried, and maybe not "
- With his Russian duo you, Marina O. began with proven classics - "Swan Lake" ...
- Do not have started and finished. There were a lot of different options and ideas, but their current programs - this is the best for them today.
- Tchaikovsky was the fifth technologies tested way?
- More. Waltz has a long history. We have to try on a lot guys waltz styles. Even at the Grand Prix in Moscow, you can see how many variations of this dance is used in figure skating - from ancient to superklassicheskogo rock waltz.
- More adjust to Victoria?
- Do not change, and I was looking for that better emphasizes the individuality of my athletes.
- It has been, or there is a stereotype that Katsalapov - a professional who will do anything and Sinitsin it to some extent catching up.
- And Victoria, and Nikita have to carry a heavy workload, she - in the same direction, he - in the other. Nikita has not yet reached the ceiling of perfection. We can not say that it is particularly difficult, but it is easy.
- But Vick was very worried about this?
- Why should I be responsible for feelings of Victoria? Maybe she was going through, and maybe not. I am responsible only for their feelings.
- But you know about it.
- I know from experience that no one understands its maximum. Maybe they, Victoria and Nikita, thinking that something is their maximum, but it is far to high. Aspects requiring improvements guys, very much.
- What is the most important of these aspects of Victoria?
- Basic - artistic impression of the interpretation of music that Victoria did not fulfill the motion and feel the music and showed these feelings through movement. This is very important because ice dancing - this is not slipping under the melody. The movement should transmit mood of the music, and this is possible thanks to the accuracy of performance, proper planting. The music itself Vick understands an actor, but the expression of music - for her it was new. We are in the process.
Dancing on Ice in need of the libretto
- At Julia Lipnitskaya also initially had problems with the knowledge of music of Elvis Presley, on which you installed the program it?
- Presley This music - this is my perception of the performance. Transfer history of three or four minutes of musical time is not possible, but it is possible to convey the mood, feeling, or character that you're playing, or simply feeling the music. That's what we can do, and Julia - definitely.
- History is not exactly convey?
- Only if the ISU (International Skating Union) does not oblige to release the libretto. I've never seen a new story created by someone realized. Always in such cases, the questions: "Who is it?", "What is it?", "Why?". But the mood - if you put a number in harmony if skaters do the elements of the rhythms and really execute the program - transfer is possible and necessary.
- About any program Yelena Ilyina / Ruslan Zhiganshina "Frida" I ask not only skaters to understand.
- And if you do not talk to anybody, and it would not know the story, just looking at ice. The next time you watch any program without asking what it is, and tell me what you understand. And then we come to the coach and will check the answers.
- Do you get to understand the side of the story, only looking to hire?
- No never. Let us not to climb it, ok? I just wish all the programs to broadcast something that should pass. But figure skating is not the libretto as in ballet, our room - a maximum of four minutes, and the ballet lasts three hours. And those three hours you are all painted on paper. In general, I believe that the libretto in ice dancing - that's right.
Sinitsina Do not have a mask, it sincere
- Lipnitskaya told in Bordeaux as she had a program on the theme of Presley's hit "Devil in Disguise", like you, she was offered to play the imp on the ice. Sinitsin might look like so, and not only in the form of classical Russian beauties, which it surely is?
- You know, I was not asked to find a way to imp Vicki, I set out to find her a suitable image. Today I see it for what it is on the ice. This is the best that I can now create their pairs.
- A smiling, sun, shining, probably Vic and good - except that my options?
- Of course possible. It is the skater who is capable of a variety.
- When a Katsalapovym Sinitsina and I talked for the first time, then Nikita is very lively, humorous telling, and Vick agreed with him only smiled and professionally. Not if she hides behind some mask?
- We are developing in dance, dramatics, but if a person is smiling, that does not mean that his face mask. I now smile, you can say anything about the mask, but I am very sincere smile. And I smile almost always. Correctly?
- Yes.
- And it's not a mask, and a sense of life. And so Victoria certainly feels life.
- Probably yes. While that is not smiling (Sinitsin at this moment passed - a comment. "R-Sport").
- So now it's a different feeling.
Shibutani: revolution in Olympic year
- Trainer and consultant team of Russia in ice dancing Gennady Karponosov said that Russian coaches lose Russia as "American" in stereotypes, chasing after the elements, while the earlier to go overseas experts put more harmonious program.
- And to me that you want to hear? It Karponossov said. I have my own outlook on the sport and at work. They should bring joy and involve the viewer in the process, to make the audience complicit creativity. To avoid this: skaters on the ice doing their job, the audience in the stands just sit and watch. People who came to the ice palace, to live in our programs, be inspired. This credo.
- Why is that?
- Because a lot of the negative aspects of life, and even four minutes of satisfaction that we are able to deliver them.
- In this case, you need to win. Pressured constantly increasing requirements to the elements?
- It's the rules, they always require a harmonious tie the technical side of figure skating with art. Talking about the difficulties of the rules - is like thinking about the complexity of compliance with ethics in life.
- But the rules change every year, as opposed to ethical standards.
- But I can not make them in the opposite direction to change, I'm looking forward. Follow the rules.
- Many people wonder, what happened with your pair of Maia and Alex Shibutani, why they suddenly become adults and specific athletes?
- The time has come. We tried a lot of styles, many gave them the program on the composition of Michael Jackson: They've worked with the participants of the show Jackson learned a lot of movement. It was a revolution in the Olympic year. And this year, they were ready to jump. That is, they are now demonstrating the quality, tried and tested over a number of years. I work with them for a decade.
- The current program they put choreographer Peter Chernyshov. Invite him - your initiative?
- They have worked with him in the show and wanted to do a show with a room. Make it in their new style, he liked to judges, and this season set a new program that has undergone a lot of changes. They are thrilled by it. Have chosen music and vocals shift on the meaning of his career, and it helps them to roll the program with a sense.
- I'm trying to identify the role of Peter in this achievement.
- I am very grateful to Peter, with him Maia and Alex chose a style that they really came. Sam Peter - very passionate and interesting choreographer guys doing to him with great pleasure. The emphasis in the growth Shibutani I would do the following: The point is not what they are doing and how they are doing. And it has come over the years, not suddenly. Just this year, it has become evident. As a result of the work of many choreographers. They have a very good hit and a short dance.
- Roles someone one is not?
- Yes, the university. Unlikely to get the diploma will be grateful to one professor. We have physical training, classical ballet, ballroom dancing ... and it does not deal with one person.
Creativity - not the most important
- You also worked with Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, whose program for the track "Sweet Life" Nino Rota from the same movie by Federico Fellini. The Italians are playing in Italy. How to carve out of this originality?
- And always need SuperDuper?
- Not always?
- Well, here's a look at the ice (it was during the Grand Prix in Moscow), here too there SuperDuper. And how does it look? Soriginalnichat - this is not the most important thing. The most important thing - to make an impression. A impressive harmony.
- Is it possible to create harmony with some hackneyed music?
- About music in general so I can not say. About the way you can - it can be worn out, and the music - it is always the possibility of a new vision. Music every time you can listen to again and to hear - in different ways. In a different mood, for example.
- But when you hear the same thing, it affects the appearance.
- It depends on the listener. Many music fans go to concerts to listen to the same work performed by various orchestras. They like to compare.
- "Io ci saro" program Vicki and Nikita takes the Chinese pianist Lang Lang, known as Bang Bang, which he received for an aggressive style of play. This is not a random choice?
- I sounded a theme and musician Alexander Goldstein, who has worked with for many years, I offered me a version with vocals (Andrea) Bocelli, and playing the piano Lang Lang. I heard that Vick and Nikita appropriate.
It is not always what is remembered wins
- Competitors have seen many times?
- No. If you see progress with my pairs, which means that I do not have time for other things. I am totally dedicated to their activities. When I see others, without any assessment, focusing on themselves. Watch me as I stood beside the board.
- Observe. But your eyes have not seen.
- Then look into my eyes and see that I look only at their athletes.
- But you have peripheral vision because - I'm terrific.
- I'm not a frog.
- You once said that after Sochi ice dancing changed.
- Highly. The rate was the higher, it has more athleticism.
- In theory, presenting today's leaders at the Olympic Games in 2014, there would have been a different layout?
- Once again you are trying to present everything in the opposite direction. I imagine in advance.
- If forward, then your last two Olympic champions Tessa Virtue Games and Scott Moir, Meryl Davis and Charlie White would be different today?
- Absolutely. If they rode until now, it would have to make something new.
- In the old baggage in any way?
- No.
- Tuning into a dialogue with you, I'm a hundred times reconsidered "Carmen" Virtue / Moir. Well, I can not believe that today they would have lost it.
- They then it did not win. It is not always that memorable wins.
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They're all just promoting their own, I guess you can't blame them too much. Though it is funny to read. And from what I can make out with bad automated translation, Zoueva is harsh but not necessarily wrong about Viktoria for example. Last season and IMO also before that with Zhiganszin she didn't know how to "connect" with her performances, she made all the right gestures and faces the choreo had mapped out for her, but it didn't seem organic. I see vast improvement in that this season.
God, I wish more people here understood Russian, her hints and undertones are so... telling!! No translation will ever transfer this 
