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Alena Kostornaia

Hi, haven't seen any mention of Alena's SP, so just in case, program contents from Twitter:

SP - Departure (Lullaby) from "The Leftovers" (soundtrack) by Max Richter
November by Max Richter

FS - Romeo and Juliet (soundtrack)
"Kissing You" by Craig Armstrong
"Forbidden Love" by Abel Korzeniowski
"Love Theme"

I linked YT videos to each song. Hope they are the right ones. I can't wait to see Alena's beautiful interpretation of these musical pieces! :luv17:
 
Hi, haven't seen any mention of Alena's SP, so just in case, program contents from Twitter:

SP - Departure (Lullaby) from "The Leftovers" (soundtrack) by Max Richter
November by Max Richter

FS - Romeo and Juliet (soundtrack)
"Kissing You" by Craig Armstrong
"Forbidden Love" by Abel Korzeniowski
"Love Theme"

I linked YT videos to each song. Hope they are the right ones. I can't wait to see Alena's beautiful interpretation of these musical pieces! :luv17:

Simply beautiful. I'm in love with the music choices! Especially the pieces for her SP and "Forbidden Love" from her FP. I fell in love with it when Lipnitskaya skated to it and I'm beyond happy that now Alena's skating to it. I think it really suits her.
 
I LOVE her free. I don't love the voiceovers but I can live with them. Alena makes them doable.
 
i need. :laugh:
I hope she will add 3A during the season) :devil:

Not sure about those voiceovers, but other than that it's a beautiful and lovely programme. I especially love the part of the FS when she skates to "Forbidden love". And I enjoy, for some reason, the ending a lot! (Her layback spin and then the ending pose)
 
I love the R and J music choices in the FS. But the voiceover voices from the movie are too much. Like I get Leo Dicaprio's voice over during skating, but another one was just too much. Less is more with sound effects for me.
 
R&J is one warhorse I can never refuse...

I agree about the voiceovers. I feel that the choreo is a bit empty compared to Stella's Theme. I hope it's because it's only the test skate, it will get more polished over time. It's Alena after all ;)
 
I am honestly so disappointed in this program :( I was so excited to see Alena skate as Juliet to such beautiful music, but this feels like a sloppy job to me. Of course, she is so talented that she still manages to shine (those SS!) but I wish they had given her something better to work with. Those voiceovers....
 
I am honestly so disappointed in this program :( I was so excited to see Alena skate as Juliet to such beautiful music, but this feels like a sloppy job to me. Of course, she is so talented that she still manages to shine (those SS!) but I wish they had given her something better to work with. Those voiceovers....

Yes, same here. Most of the choreo feels rather bland and generic to me, and there are so many parts where the choreo also seems to have little to no connection to the music. Could be the new dictionary example for emotionless snoozefest to me. Maybe it'll improve over time, but IMO that would need a lot of changes. Esaily the worst work we've seen from Daniil so far this season IMO (Alinas SP is beyond weird to me too, but most random music cuts I've ever heard aside, at least it's not as boring as this).
To be frank I'm not sure I even want to see her SP, given her description of it reminding me of the worst Averbukh concepts he shoved on Zhenya, and the comments about the music cuts we heard so far :slink:
 
I am honestly so disappointed in this program :( I was so excited to see Alena skate as Juliet to such beautiful music, but this feels like a sloppy job to me. Of course, she is so talented that she still manages to shine (those SS!) but I wish they had given her something better to work with. Those voiceovers....

Wait until you see the program from a better camera angle and with a costume.
 
In the interview she said she was very satisfied with both programs, I don't think she will present something that will disappoint us.
 
Of course not, but sometimes the skater does not connect immediately with the program, see Zhenya's example with her 2016/17 FS
 
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