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Anna Shcherbakova

What I don't get is why you don't just go talk about Nugumanova in her thread.

There is nothing to get. Someone asked here if any skater has done shows before her JGP debut and Liza's name was mentioned. I am not the one who brought her name here.
 
Anna's not been the most active ANYTHING user. :laugh::angry2:

Which is probably the best for her, but not so good for us, her fans. :agree:
It seems that Anna avoids cameras and live broadcasts in all possible ways, like yesterday when Kamila Valieva streamed from Novogorsk, Anna just disappeared from the room.
 
https://instagram.com/p/BkLFVfTlsrr/

Anna and her teammates playing with napkins! Not sure why they’re doing this, but we’ve seen Anna performing Dreamcatcher wearing a gigantic mascot head, so I guess we really can’t be surprised with all the shenanigans. :rofl:
Translation: "In fact it's a fragment from the beginning of Egor Rukhin's new short program, but it's actually (meant to be) a letter, not a napkin 😂. Try to repeat our trick 😉. Alina is the author of the title 🙈 #catchthenapkincandy (a bit of a wordplay in Russian - lauravvv)".
 
That napkin incident was sooo funny! I thought she did the move so gracefully but when she's trying to catch it she's like "Wait, where did it go?! It should be here!" :laugh: Little Anna's sooo adorable and she grew up so fast! No triples at 10 and a half and then she goes and gets 2nd place in Russia's basic novice nationals just half a year later. My favorite early program for her is definitely the 14-15 SP, it suits her sooo well! I'd love to see another program in the same style at some point.

Watching that program again, it's incredible how far she's gotten since then in just 3 and a half years. She had no jumps to speak of and very mediocre skating skills. But amazing charisma and performing ability. And now...
 
Watching that program again, it's incredible how far she's gotten since then in just 3 and a half years. She had no jumps to speak of and very mediocre skating skills. But amazing charisma and performing ability. And now...
From 1A to 4T in 28 months. Welcome to cosmodrome "Khrustalnyi". :agree:
 
Alena Kostornaya answered in her ask that Anna is the most shy girl in the team
That's no surprise at all, actually anything else would have been a surprise. That's also a part of the reason why she's the most interesting one. She seems to keep to herself and has this "shroud of mystery" in a way. I'm not sure if she opens up to anyone.
 
One thing I find amazing and very interesting about Anna is how shy she is, and yet emotional expression comes so easily to her when she’s performing. I grew up doing contemporary dance on a team of girls aged 5-17, and it was always the shyest girls like Anna who had the hardest times expressing themselves onstage. They would perform with blank faces, mostly with poor musicality, and the teachers would try so hard to teach them to emote, generally to no avail.

Anna, though, is a different story. She seems so shy and reserved in real life, but when she’s performing, emotional expression seems so easy and natural to her, like she was born to be on ice rather than to live among humans. She embodies the music, and it’s as though she’s a different person on ice and off-ice. That’s one thing I really like about her. She might be shy in social situations, but on the ice she is intense, powerful, and captivating. It’s like an alter-ego, even.

I once saw someone on social media posting something along the lines of “Here’s to all the brilliant stage performers who are shy and anxious in real life. May irony never defeat us.” Anna reminds me of that. :)
 
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