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- May 12, 2014
For a Princess who'd been cursed to sleep, Gracie showed a ton more emotional expression and range than Lipnitskaya did.
Your attempt at an ill-informed witticism above represents so much of what I find distressing about the quality of debate on these social forums. Your popularized, non-evaluating approach is, of course, the basis of the Internet free-for-all that has been declared as democratizing criticism; but from what I gathered from your pattern of behavior, all it serves is an outlet for your bubbling juvenile hostilities and grudges-- essentially it minimizes the insight, sensitivity and taste that ought to be brought into figure skating.
Now onwards, the artistic merit of emotional expression should not be judged through its spectral nature (maybe only at the insane asylums, as per the treatments for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and such-like-- I have little experience in this area, so I would delve no further for I would overstep by bounds if I did, as you have done with your take on Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty with its reductive structure that was prefabricated from a smattering of summary) nor should it be judged through its facile quantitative easing (For example, "Ooh, she is so eclectic in her taste...for mediocrity! All those run-of-the-mill gestures-- she sure was a good study! What an artiste." or "Oooh, her movements are so diverse! Who cares about the economy of aesthetics-- when you've got that kind of disorientating artifice to display! I will learn to love this, I tell ya that much!" or "Sure it's an introverted dramatic piece from Rach, but I still want her to shake her hips for quantifiable audience participation points! What range! It's like Ingrid Bergman was on her way to perform some transgression at the end of The Bells of St. Mary's, out of the blue. What eclecticism that lady wrought! even at the expense of the program's narrative integrity! That's some tangible artistry right there, buddy!"