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The version of The Winner Takes All Mirai is skating to is a bit softer and more emotional than the ABBA version. She's skating to Sarah Dawn Finer's version - look it up, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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The version of The Winner Takes All Mirai is skating to is a bit softer and more emotional than the ABBA version. She's skating to Sarah Dawn Finer's version - look it up, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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I personally think that version is over-sung and therefore overdoes the emotion, but Mirai likes it and that's all that matters. I know if the music inspires her, then it'll come through in her performance.
I think if a team doesn't choose hip hop they will be seen as taking the "easy way out" and not challenging themselves with new things. A lot of top teams like Virtue/Moir and Weaver/Poje have been working hard and performing hip hop inspired exhibitions all summer, Papadakis/Cizeron have been seen taking dance classes and Chock/Bates also have the potential to pull it off really well. If they can make it work next season and bring something fresh and new to Ice Dance then any team who didn't do hip hop could be seen at a disadvantage.
Punditry didn't do anyone any good in the SD last season. Choose the music that goes well with your Blues and allows you to maximize your own strengths. Or you'll wind up scrapping it, just like W&P and C&B did right at the beginning of last season. Or reworking it at the last minute like Gilles & Poirier. Or sitting home like Ilinykh & Zhiganshin.I think it is good that there are going to be a variety of hip hop selections. If there are, we should actually have a real comparison.
But just because teams are doing exhibitions or practicing a style doesn't mean those teams are selecting the music for competition. (In fact, if you are doing it for exhibition, it could be an excuse not to use it in competition or a trial run to see if it will work for you). I believe we currently have @5 senior teams confirming hip hop (Cannuscio & McManus, Hawayek & Baker, Hubbell & Donahue, Lauriault & Le Gac--not confirmed, but it seems to fit their music, and Stepanova & Bukin) and @4 senior teams confirming swing (Coomes & Buckland, Gilles & Poirier--this was posted hearsay, Paul & Islam, and Zahorsky & Guerreiro).
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Brendan Kerry
SP Singin' In the Rain (with lyrics)
per mini-video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BG70NTaCxfq/?taken-by=icetownfigureskating (posted Jun 21)
choreo for his "2016 programs" (plural) by Mark Pillay
per: https://www.instagram.com/p/BGxer_RmTKk/?taken-by=br3ndan_ (posted Jun 17)
Vincent Zhou
SP mini-video
https://www.instagram.com/p/BG7zlAdixeK/?taken-by=icetownfigureskating (posted Jun 21)
(I hope a smart person will listen to the music and identify it for the thread.)
SP Singin' In the Rain (with lyrics)
per mini-video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BG70NTaCxfq/?taken-by=icetownfigureskating (posted Jun 21)
choreo for his "2016 programs" (plural) by Mark Pillay
per: https://www.instagram.com/p/BGxer_RmTKk/?taken-by=br3ndan_ (posted Jun 17)
Vincent Zhou
SP mini-video
https://www.instagram.com/p/BG7zlAdixeK/?taken-by=icetownfigureskating (posted Jun 21)
(I hope a smart person will listen to the music and identify it for the thread.)
It sounds like an instrumental of "Writing on the Wall," the Sam Smith theme from James Bond's Spectre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkRyn0JNTco
But that's only a guess -- the clip is so short it could be anything.
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Hannah Miller
SP: "Arabesque" by Benise (last season's program)
FS: "Spring Wind", "The Unbending Chinese Tree", and "Ad Martem" by Havasi. Choreographed by Nadia Kanaeva
http://figureskatersonline.com/hannahmiller/main/training-programs-again/
Tarah Kayne and Danny O'Shea
both programs choreographed by Judy Blumeberg.
http://www.twofortheice.com/connection-key-creation-kayne-oshea/
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On one hand, I'm kind of bummed that Ivan is skating to Elvis since Javi is skating to it. Nice to have variety. But on the other hand, I think Ivan can totally rock Elvis!
(And maybe they'll use different songs from each other.)Rika Hongo's new short I believe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nepDOAjZpM
I'm reserving judgement until later by the grand prix....she has to grow into this program imo
BTW this youtuber has uploaded many videos including exhibitions/programs including Rika, Satoko, Evgenia, Wakaba, Marin, Takahiko Mura, and another girl that I don't recognize. Just a temporary cure to off-season boredom before summer comps get into full swing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nepDOAjZpM
I'm reserving judgement until later by the grand prix....she has to grow into this program imo
BTW this youtuber has uploaded many videos including exhibitions/programs including Rika, Satoko, Evgenia, Wakaba, Marin, Takahiko Mura, and another girl that I don't recognize. Just a temporary cure to off-season boredom before summer comps get into full swing!
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Isabelle Olsson is skating to "I Put a Spell on You": https://www.instagram.com/p/BHpEtGKAswp/?taken-by=iisabelleolsson
It is for the short program, I believe
It is for the short program, I believe
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It is obviously not for exhibition. Very unusual choice of music for competition program.
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It will be a mixture of several "cosmos atmosphere" pieces. It is choreographed by Tom Dickson, who made great programs for her in the past seasons, Firedance and Miss Saigon.
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I'm looking forward to seeing the work soon as I love the two programs very much.
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"I Put a Spell On You" .... is that the best music you can find? it's so annoying now.
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I agree. It's not that hard to find music that has been rarely been skated to, I don't see why skaters/choreographers seemingly can't do that.
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Boyang Jin - La strada
https://twitter.com/icekeiko1029/status/752399836675076096
https://twitter.com/icekeiko1029/status/752399836675076096
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We need new choreographer blood as well. The top ones today did their job but i think this sport can go even farther.
Understandable though because ice skating is not so popular.
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I agree with you, but I have to point out that she MUST ditch the last Y spin of the final spin combo, that would bring negative GOE.
I completely agree about that last y spin! It should be taken out if it's still rocky by the Grand Prix
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