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This is not Kitri. A large part of ballet is also the character.
I do not understand this comment. Curry is not performing the Don Quixote ballet. He is presenting a figure skating program that demonstrates that it is possible to include balletic influences in a skating routine.
This program is regarded as unique in all of figure skating history in this regard. Posture and carriage alone are enough to disqualify all other pastisches that we see from time to time in competitive figure skating. They are, in fact, more like parodies.
This doesn't say much though. What he did was great and still is. But if Alina skates this way today, she will score half the points.
I have never understood the point of wanting to score old masterpieces by IJS criteria. Unless it is to point out the failure of the IJS.
Great program = half the points. Mediocre program = lots of points. Isn't this a condemnation of the point system?
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