Hubbell and Donohue on 2018-19 season

gsk8 · Dec 15, 2018

A candid interview with U.S. ice dancers Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue on their re-vamped dances for the 2018-19 season, Olympic experience, and goals moving into U.S. Nationals.

https://youtu.be/Be84_24mSvE

What are your thoughts on their performances? Where do you think they can improve?

Love seeing a "fresh-faced" Madison!

LaArdilla · Dec 15, 2018

I absolutely loved it! Especially the part about their relationship, so interesting!

gsk8 · Dec 15, 2018

LaArdilla said:
I absolutely loved it! Especially the part about their relationship, so interesting!

Right? I was both surprised and happy with the candidness

I can see they put a lot of work into those programs. I'm looking forward to seeing them again at US Nats.

ladyjane · Dec 15, 2018

Great interview. Nice to hear about their competitors Madison and Evan, lovely to hear them being so positive all along. They really sound like nice people in this talk. Thank you for this.

Weathergal · Dec 15, 2018

gsk8 said:
A candid interview with U.S. ice dancers Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue on their re-vamped dances for the 2018-19 season, Olympic experience, and goals moving into U.S. Nationals.

https://youtu.be/Be84_24mSvE

What are your thoughts on their performances? Where do you think they can improve?

Love seeing a "fresh-faced" Madison!

Thanks foe the interview - another great job by Ted. :thumbsup:

el henry · Dec 16, 2018

Great interview: even if Madi and Zach are not your absolute faves, their honesty and approach to skating is refreshing and this is worth a listen.

Echoing another great job by Ted :clap:

skylark · Dec 16, 2018

What they said ... or maybe it was what Madi said ... about Madison and Evan, makes me really eager to see their new programs. I think it's going to be very interesting to see what new subtleties can be brought out in Maddie and Evan by coaches who are also a couple in life.

I've noticed before that Madi and Zach can be unguarded in their answers, and they're particularly generous in their remarks about their competitors. Just really lovely people. I think they're ... ahem ... interesting on several levels. And I love that they are performers, and that they made a choice to re-capture more of that this year. It shows.

ETA: Also, what an interesting contrast C/B are with H/D. The latter found that being a couple in real life wasn't optimal for their skating. Several other pairs, who were married then divorced and remained pairs partners, (or not married but a romantic couple) said the same thing. Then, for others, it works or even enhances their skating.

mrrice · Dec 17, 2018

Madison has a very interesting accent. Where in the states is she from?

gsk8 · Dec 17, 2018

mrrice said:
Madison has a very interesting accent. Where in the states is she from?

Michigan

mrrice · Dec 17, 2018

gsk8 said:
Michigan

Really. She's so beautiful, I just love her.

skylark · Dec 17, 2018

mrrice said:
Madison has a very interesting accent. Where in the states is she from?

gsk8 said:
Michigan

Haven't you heard? Michiganders don't have an accent!

mrrice · Dec 17, 2018

skylark said:
Haven't you heard? Michiganders don't have an accent!

Right...Those dudes from Detroit...."Let's Go Ta Da Stah"…..I thought they were so cool when this California dude came to town,

Mathman · Dec 17, 2018

skylark said:
Haven't you heard? Michiganders don't have an accent!

Well ... she's from Lansing. (So is Hannah Miller.) I mean, it's not like she was from Ann Arbor, or something. :laugh:

WeakAnkles · Dec 17, 2018

They're nothing if not candid, which makes them a very good team to interview. No Meryl and Charlie PR pat answers here. Good for Ted to get them to talk so revealingly about their relationship history, which is by far the best part of the interview. Well Worth Your Time.

ETA: I think they're deluding themselves into thinking the R&J program is better than it is. I hope next year they take more time in devising a program concept that isn't such a glaring mismatch.

skylark · Dec 17, 2018

mrrice said:
Right...Those dudes from Detroit...."Let's Go Ta Da Stah"…..I thought they were so cool when this California dude came to town,

Yeah, that's a good example. You should visit Michigan's Upper Peninsula sometime. It would be a revelation. My boys can fall into that accent at the drop of a hat and do a hilarious riff. They can even do it without anything off-color or vulgar, which would cause their mom to wince.

:eek:

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Mathman · Dec 17, 2018

Thread drift.

The Detroit accent is basically the black version of the deep south. The majority of Detroit residents have family roots in Alabama, Mississippi or Louisiana. (Also Georgia, for a variant.)

As for the Yoopers, that's Finnish + French Canadian. :yes:

skylark · Dec 18, 2018

^^^ Exactly so.

ETA: And also a lot of white folks with Appalachian roots in some of the 'burbs.

bklyn278 · Dec 18, 2018

The future ms Diaz

Seren · Dec 18, 2018

Haha- I’m from Michigan and everyone on the west coast where I live thinks I’m Canadian.

skylark · Dec 19, 2018

After all this analysis of Michigan accents, I had to hear Madi again, so I listened to the first half of the interview again. So glad I did. They focused on the changes in their programs,which were about finding more ways to perform better, get the feelings of young love, the passion, and to make the audience feel that again, re-experience what it's like to look into the eyes of first love. I think they accomplished that so admirably.

I was taken aback by how all the discussions here of their R&J, after the GPF, focused on tech. Listening to this interview tells me that Madi, Zach and their team focused on making the audience feel the intent of the program. It was a huge challenge, a lot of work, (they kept making changes up till the Sunday before the event) to fit all the tech requirements into that, and to make the tech serve the emotion, and be a dance.

I think Madi and Zach accomplished their goal brilliantly. There's still a lot of work ahead, a lot of tinkering according to Madi ... but thev've laid down their purpose.

mrrice said:
Madison has a very interesting accent.

You're right. She has the Mid-western twang, which is softened and pulled back by something Southern US and Canadian at the same time! Intriguing.

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