ITT post your favorite smiles in a figure skating program:
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His smile could light up a rink, and in this program he had good reason to smile:
Donovan Carrillo's SP at 2019 4CC
That starting pose :luv17:
ITT post your favorite smiles in a figure skating program:
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Evgenia did break characters a little with her 9/11 program but it wasn't meant to be that way and I don't understand why people criticised her for it. A teenage girl skating a performance that could win her gold, I don't blame her for any lapse in focus on the interpretation. I think she did very well with it overall
Most criticism I saw had very little to do with her interpretation for that program but for the 'music' composition which used real sounds from 9/11 in it.
Well it was about 9/11. I don't see how using such sounds made it somehow more "offensive". I personally know someone who lost a relative on 9/11 who loved Evgenia's program and rolled their eyes at those who criticized her for it.
His smile could light up a rink, and in this program he had good reason to smile:
Donovan Carrillo's SP at 2019 4CC
That starting pose :luv17:
Well it was about 9/11. I don't see how using such sounds made it somehow more "offensive". I personally know someone who lost a relative on 9/11 who loved Evgenia's program and rolled their eyes at those who criticized her for it.
Mana Kawabe's SP this season is to "You are a mean one Mr. Grinch". Her dress is red though
That's interesting! I often wondered how people who'd been affected by 9/11 might feel about that program. The music was beautiful, but I thought the sound effects could bring on flashbacks for someone who'd been personally affected.
Nice to hear your friend liked the program.
Many people suffer from PTSD from 9/11. The sounds of it can indeed bring flashbacks. A friend of mine lives in downtown NYC and saw the people jumping off the buildings to avoid being burned. She has flashbacks. Different people have different triggers, some sights, some sounds, some smells.
And some people are not much bothered by the sufferings of others. They do not have flashbacks at all.
And so some people cannot understand why others have PTSD.
And because of that one person, no one else had a right to be disturbed or offended by it?
BTW..has anyone skated to "Defying Gravity" (from Wicked) yet? Or would that be just a little too much like tempting fate?
Personally i find very weird Satoko's smiling in her Schinder's List program.
I'd never associate that movie with hope, happiness, good vibes... a movie that better portrayed those sentiments while keeping the same setting was Life is Beautiful.
BTW..has anyone skated to "Defying Gravity" (from Wicked) yet? Or would that be just a little too much like tempting fate?
Nancy Kerrigan skated to it as a pro. We saw her skate to the program live in a (fabulous) show that was a tribute to the Golden Age of US Figure Skating (Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, December 2010).
Apart from Nancy, we have seen syncho teams skate to the song (@ a University of Delaware show).
Speaking specifically on the interpretation of "Hallelujah," it's a song that was originally written by Leonard Cohen. According to wikipedia:
So yes I do believe there are multiple interpretations of Hallelujah and "joyous" is certainly one of them. My personal interpretation of "cold and broken hallelujah" is finding the light within the darkness, hope in hard times.
If we are talking about other programs, I know it's been used to death but the first one that comes to mind is Hubbell and Donohue's version (which is coincidentally also done to k.d. lang's version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4ooBnmjWk0
As far as interpretation, they're pretty happy and joyous to me (well Madison is a bit dramatic in the first few seconds but Zach is certainly happy throughout). This is actually one of my favorite programs of theirs simply because they're so happy.
So no, I don't think there is anything wrong with Mariah's interpretation. I love it in fact, it gives me so much joy to watch her and know that she absolutely loves what she's doing.
Now if we want to talk about Mariah branching out in other types of programs and expanding her range, well that's another topic.
My response to the thread title was to recall Kristi Yamaguchi smiling broadly in a professional performance to "Heartbreak Hotel." Where was the heartbreak?
Personally i find very weird Satoko's smiling in her Schinder's List program.
I'd never associate that movie with hope ....
I didn't say that.
A lot of those who criticised her for the program were people who were not even personally affected by 9/11. Just offering a different perspective.
... Just offering a different perspective.
I can assure you that everyone in the United States was personally affected by 9/11. It changed our entire country, and not for the better.
Not surprising. Four of our most prominent cities were directly affected-New York City, Washington D.C., and also Boston and Los Angeles, where the most people on the planes came from. Everybody knows somebody who had affected friends, families, or acquaintenances. And we were all assaulted by repeats of seeing the planes crash for months on the news.
Also, people were closely affected in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut (where the smoke was visible 90 miles away for months and months), Pennsylvania (where one plane crashed), Maryland/Pentagon, and the surrounding Washington. D.C., area.