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What would be your figure skating music?

CrazyKittenLady

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The new season is (almost) upon us, but I believe there is still time for one more off-season thread.

Imagine you are an elite figure skater. It's your first Olympic season and you are virtually guaranteed to be picked as your country's representative at The Games. Which music would you choose for the most exciting season of your figure skating career? Bonus question: Who would be your choreographers?
 
Mmmm. Everybody knows my feelings about the Olympics, so you know I would dispute the "most exciting season of your figure skating career" bit. But I like the question behind this thread, so I will play along.

Without a doubt, it would be "Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell. My favourite piece of skating music, full stop. It is so epic. The way it builds is just so intense and dramatic. I love it!

Does Brian Joubert double up as a choreographer as well as a coach? I always liked his style of skating and, well, it's not as if he doesn't know the music:

Brian Joubert - 2009 World Championships FS

OK, so it's the second part of a two piece medley in this particular programme. But, hey! He still skated to it!

CaroLiza_fan
 
I am taking this as my MarySue Imaginary Me who actually can be imagined (and is therefore as completely different from the Actually Me as is humanly possible)

SP - Wild Swans, the ballet by Elena Kats-Chernin
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Elena Kats-Chernin: Wild Swans

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FS - Hollow Knight game OST (well, it's currently my favourite! that could change) by Christopher Larkin

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Choreographer... dunno, they'd have to be brave...
 
SP Young Tristan
(Film: Tristan + Isolde)

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FP Fuel To Fire
(Instrumental Piano)

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Both choreographed by Kaitlyn Weaver
 
elektra blue said:
sp Wagner Ride of the Valkyries




fs Iron Maiden Hallowed be thy name

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Great choices. But, I wouldn't expect anything less from you. ;)

Just one problem, though. Both of those pieces are way too long. How on Earth are you going to edit them down to the required length without loosing the feeling of the music? And without them getting absolutely butchered?

elektra blue said:
Choreographer i don't know:ROFLMAO:
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Erm, is it not obvious?

Eddie The Head!!! :rock:

(I know there are probably more relevant pictures of him for this topic, but I couldn't resist using that one!)

Actually, I went onto YouTube to try to find comedy videos of somebody trying to teach choreography, but I couldn't find anything like what I was looking. But, as always when I am not having much joy looking for things on YouTube, I ended up watching this:

Alizée - "J'en Ai Marre"

I would do anything to see a skating programme choreographed by whoever choreographed that dance! :love:

CaroLiza_fan
 
I would skate to Beethoven

Beethoven Lenore Overture No. 3 (heavily edited for SP)

Beethoven 9th II. Molto vivace 17:54 (heavily edited for FS)

There would be a lot of moves in the field - spread eagles, Ina Bauers, inside-outside spirals and spins other than laybacks. Plenty of arabians and twizzles and of course jumps.

Costumes would be a cross between Toller Cranston painting and Ukrainian folk art
only less fluffy and more streamlined for skating. Red skates are a definite possibility and a hairpiece as well. Yes the gold costume would have strawberry colored highlights.
Not sure which costume goes with which music better.
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I never get tired of these two pieces of music, they lift my spirits!

My dream choreographer would be Lori Nichol...
 
For all my programs it's always been chosen either classical music pieces or lyrical film soundtrack, so I wouldn't go outside my element and what I interpret/perform the best if I were to be sent to such major international competition.

Interestingly enough, in private life, I love listening to 60s music, my favorite, big BIG Janis Joplin fan but can never skate to this music, I would simply lip synch, be on a groovy mood and not get anything done, just not the right vibe.
 
I probably would want to be completely original and cray cray...

So here is my SP music, percussive, minimalist, rhythmic fest



For the LP, I would choose something with nice lyrical lines

I don't think anyone has done les Chants d'Auvergne... I'd stay away from the greatest hit (Bailero) and probably would pick

La delaissado


If my coach thought it was crazy to go for a slow piece the whole time, it's okay.... these pieces are well written with nice musical interludes so I could combine a couple of them together... to have a faster piece in there.

I hope this is daring enough and not too warshorsey :)

I really believe that anything can be skating music, if you know how to do it ;) So I am not worried.

For Choreos :

Can I have Joey Russel for the short and Jeff Buttle for the long ? :) But I would also be happy working with Carol Lane, Bourne or Patrick if he wanted to bother with me :)
 
TallyT said:
I only recently found out that he wrote the music to the 60s sf show The Time Tunnel... he's been at it for a long time!
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I watched that series a couple of years ago. It was so frustrating that it was axed before the overall storyline was resolved. I hate it when a series ends and there are loose ends left hanging. Especially when it is something crucial like that. The same exact thing happened with the similarly themed "Quantum Leap".

The original "Quantum Leap", that is. I don't know yet if the new version had a satisfactory ending. The first series of the new version got it's UK premiere last month, with all 18 episodes being shown in the space of a week! :eek: (I taped them and spread them out over a longer period. I don't know how people can watch a whole series in one go. Anything more than 2 hours watching the same programme, even if the episodes have different stories, is too much for me). But the second series hasn't been shown yet.

By the way, getting back to the skating music, I'm still pondering over my possible answer for your question in the other thread. I'm starting to find a whole new admiration for choreographers. It is so hard trying to work out what music would suit somebody!

CaroLiza_fan
 
I've had so pieces of music in mind over the years: Anastasia soundtrack, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (only song from PotO that I would use), just about anything by Hans Zimmer, Across the Stars by John Williams, Scene in the Pine Forest (from The Nutcracker).
 
Well, given that figure skaters are the ones that give me things to listen to since I was a teenager, lol...

Teenage me would have picked Tsoi's 'Changes/Breaks' and Golden City by Grebenschikov's.

Since this is like... nobody knows what the heck it is, and my musical tastes are trash, I would have picked:

Gas, Gas, Gas for SP

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and Dulcea Si Tendre for FS

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CaroLiza_fan said:
I watched that series a couple of years ago. It was so frustrating that it was axed before the overall storyline was resolved. I hate it when a series ends and there are loose ends left hanging. Especially when it is something crucial like that. The same exact thing happened with the similarly themed "Quantum Leap".

The original "Quantum Leap", that is. I don't know yet if the new version had a satisfactory ending. The first series of the new version got it's UK premiere last month, with all 18 episodes being shown in the space of a week! :eek: (I taped them and spread them out over a longer period. I don't know how people can watch a whole series in one go. Anything more than 2 hours watching the same programme, even if the episodes have different stories, is too much for me). But the second series hasn't been shown yet.

By the way, getting back to the skating music, I'm still pondering over my possible answer for your question in the other thread. I'm starting to find a whole new admiration for choreographers. It is so hard trying to work out what music would suit somebody!

CaroLiza_fan
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Try being a Cdrama fan :laugh: I have downloaded and binged at least a dozen 50+ episode series in under a week each (it's a good thing I am used to subtitles, yes), like a big fat book and 'just one more chapter....'

Which reminds me. I would definitely want a TV soundtrack in there somewhere, so The Untamed music by Lin Hai can be the exhibition number.
 
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