Rhythm Dance for 2026-27
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Oh, I hope so. Why's would anyone ever want to dance to anything except the Blue Danube?
When I was growing up, figure skating shows were the only opportunity I had to hear classical music (except for Buggs Bunny cartoons). That was colol.
Now, though, I am kind of going in the opposite direction. All this "popular music of the eighties, nineties, sixties, etc. -- I was getting used to it and starting to enjoy all the possibilities that skaters and choreographers were coming up with.
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A waltz for this purpose is something with the 3/4 time signature and 186 beats per second. It can be by any composer, including anyone from Strauss to Daft Punk.
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All I want is someone, anyone to cosplay as Squall and Rinoa from FF8 and do Waltz for the Moon.
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Is this real? Sounds intriguing, but that high bpm does not. Do they have the same rhythm throughout, like this season? I did not like that. I can't picture anything good from a Daft Punk waltz at 186 bpm, but maybe I simply don't understand any of this well enough to imagine it.
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I hear that quite often Dancers will double count, giving an effect beat of 93 bpm.
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I am looking forward to the waltzes. It's been a while. I don't really care how many BPM it is, just that it's really ballroom dance, not the awful 90's stuff (sorry fans, the only ones I liked was Laurence and Guillaume's, Piper and Paul's and Alison and Saulius's one, the rest was a bit bleeh to me, so many ID couples whom I usually love not hitting it for me). I liked the 80's, the social dances of the many decennia, but having a really Dance-like theme is something I look forward to.
It's a good thing the theme changes every year, so lovers of one type also get to watch something they like once in a while!
It's a good thing the theme changes every year, so lovers of one type also get to watch something they like once in a while!
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no way, man. No one remembers the 8 for a reason, it was one of the worst chapters of the game. sadly no one walted in the 7...All I want is someone, anyone to cosplay as Squall and Rinoa from FF8 and do Waltz for the Moon.
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Hey, 8 is my favourite, probably!
7 is fantastic, but it looked like crap; can you imagine Cloud going for a waltz with his clunky arms?
Then again, opera in 6 somehow worked.
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Final Fantasy 8 looks worse than 7. It's just blurry, with far less interesting production/world design and character/costume design. Yes the models in 7 are blockier, but there's a charm to that. It helps lean into the feeling of being in a completely different world.
Final Fantasy Tactics has a Waltz, wow I heard this one so much in battles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH9XB_3WrSU&list=PL416A83DC4B2E1D70
Oh, so only computers are allowed to compete next year.
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I predict The Chairman's Waltz (Memoirs of a Geisha) will be popular and I have no problem with that... though I would be ecstatic if some brave souls went for either Anderson's Waltzing Cat or Waltz of the Mandrake from Pan's Labyrinth.
I don't expect my second favourite waltz of all to be picked, because it's not as far as I can tell well known.
(My favourite is Khachaturian's Masquerade, yes probably commonplace but I have loved it from a small child and that small child still rules
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I don't expect my second favourite waltz of all to be picked, because it's not as far as I can tell well known.
(My favourite is Khachaturian's Masquerade, yes probably commonplace but I have loved it from a small child and that small child still rules
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I would love for someone to skate to Merry-Go-Round of Life from Howl's Moving Castle 
It's the perfect BPM for juniors! For seniors it'll need to be sped up a bit to meet the requirement, tried doing that in YT and it still sounds good to me
The quick waltzy bit starts at 0:48
It's the perfect BPM for juniors! For seniors it'll need to be sped up a bit to meet the requirement, tried doing that in YT and it still sounds good to me
The quick waltzy bit starts at 0:48
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Don't worry, now that the RD is more staid I fully expect there to be more chaotic brainbreaking choices in the FD!
you just know Marie-France, Igor and Benoit have some terrible ideas in storage that didn't quite fit the BPM the last couple seasons...
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I would love for someone to skate to Merry-Go-Round of Life from Howl's Moving Castle
It's the perfect BPM for juniors! For seniors it'll need to be sped up a bit to meet the requirement, tried doing that in YT and it still sounds good to me
The quick waltzy bit starts at 0:48
I doubt this will happen. Joe Hisaishi doesn't like people modifying his music. So, it would be very difficult obtain his permission
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But skaters have used Joe Hisaishi's works in the past... Deniss V and RikaShin both used Princess Mononoke - RikaShin only locally in Japan of course but Deniss competed internationally with his program, even at the Olympics 2022. Deniss even mixed the Princess Mononoke piece with a completely different Karl Jenkins piece.
And some skaters / teams have used Howl's Moving Castle before as well.
But yeah all of these were before the music rights tightening recently. However since there's no Olympics next season, I hope it'll be easier for skaters to use whatever music they want
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I suspect Hisaishi makes whoever is cutting and arranging his music work for the privelege - as he has a perfect right to do, of courseBut skaters have used Joe Hisaishi's works in the past... Deniss V and RikaShin both used Princess Mononoke - RikaShin only locally in Japan of course but Deniss competed internationally with his program, even at the Olympics 2022. Deniss even mixed the Princess Mononoke piece with a completely different Karl Jenkins piece.
And some skaters / teams have used Howl's Moving Castle before as well.
But yeah all of these were before the music rights tightening recently. However since there's no Olympics next season, I hope it'll be easier for skaters to use whatever music they want
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It all depends. I think he is a particular case. We will see.But skaters have used Joe Hisaishi's works in the past... Deniss V and RikaShin both used Princess Mononoke - RikaShin only locally in Japan of course but Deniss competed internationally with his program, even at the Olympics 2022. Deniss even mixed the Princess Mononoke piece with a completely different Karl Jenkins piece.
And some skaters / teams have used Howl's Moving Castle before as well.
But yeah all of these were before the music rights tightening recently. However since there's no Olympics next season, I hope it'll be easier for skaters to use whatever music they want
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