Nah, he's good in all the in between stuff but his elements are relatively weak. Not quite the soup yet, but their costumes are just the cutest
2015-2016 Programs by Discipline
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Nah, he's good in all the in between stuff but his elements are relatively weak. Not quite the soup yet, but their costumes are just the cutest
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The Mengs' free dance as skated at Quebec today is "Nocturne into Bohemian Rhapsody."
Turandot:
Emi Hirai & Marien De La Asuncion
Andrey Lazukin
Shoma Uno
Max Aaron
Selena Zhao
Karen Chen
Ivan Righini
Yep, four guys. At least 7 programs. Nowhere near the 14 Romeo & Juliet's, but Turandot is so powerful/easily overpowering that I fear this will feel like a long season with this music.
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LOL, I just bought Nessun Dorma on my phone. I discovered it via Karen Chen and I now love it! Actually happy about this new warhorse
I was curious about the crouching tiger, hidden dragon programm and looked it up - though I have no eye for all the complex rules in ice dance, I really enjoyed the programm
Not that new. It's been 12 years since Shen & Zhao's iconic perfect performance to Turandot at Worlds with Xue's skating on an injured leg. Thirteen years since they debuted the program. But I was watching tapes with old favorites recently, and to my shock there was a different Turandot (obviously a forgettable one) on almost every tape. LOL.
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Luckily, they're all from different categories/countries and of different levels, so it's highly unlikely that we'll hear the same music twice or three times in a couple of days as it happened last year...
Max and Shoma are both at the same two Grand Prix events. We'll be hearing it twice in the same couple days in the men's event at least twice.
And Max & Karen will both be skating to it at U.S. Nationals.
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LOL, I just bought Nessun Dorma on my phone. I discovered it via Karen Chen and I now love it! Actually happy about this new warhorse
What do you mean you just 'discovered it'!! You mean you bypassed Pavarotti 1990 World Cup season? Or Three tenors? It was EVERYWHERE!!!
drama:now I feel old!)Anyways, apart from Shen and Zhao, there's always this valedictorian program with a live orchestra from Yuna Kim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JnPkt4R4wQ
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Yeah sure... blame the music!! :sarcasm:
A ballet version of Gone with the wind would be the wrong approach imo. (Ballet only went to america in the late 1800s) but mostly it goes against the character and the theme of Gone with the wind, in that nothing is controlled and everything is sporadic, chaotic, unpredictable, wild and free, especially the character of Scarlett... who had she live during the ballet era, probably will only take it on because it was 'seen' as the 'fancy' thing to do, but likely to give up after 2 or 3 lessons, really more of a salsa, folksy dancing type of girl being so wildly spirited, fun and unable to ever settle. She is not what I'd describe as disciplined or elegant.
The only way a ballet version would have worked is actually distant itself from GWTW original recording version all together, something like a cover version of Tara's theme as an 'obvious' homage to GWTW rather than an adaptation. Something like these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63jbclOOrUo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzUWwk29HAk
In which case her contemporary costume and apparently interpretation would have worked better and more importantly, makes more sense.
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^I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that the music from GWTW is uninteresting. It's just my opinion.
As for the rest of your post - I'm not sure if it's directed at me. I never suggested a ballet approach be applied to this particular music.
As for the rest of your post - I'm not sure if it's directed at me. I never suggested a ballet approach be applied to this particular music.
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Don't forget Shizuka's OGM 2006 performance or her previous world's winning performance to the same music, either!!!What do you mean you just 'discovered it'!! You mean you bypassed Pavarotti 1990 World Cup season? Or Three tenors? It was EVERYWHERE!!!
Anyways, apart from Shen and Zhao, there's always this valedictorian program with a live orchestra from Yuna Kim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JnPkt4R4wQ
I did forget it. It was one of the Turandot programs I saw that day I was looking through old tapes. Obviously didn't stick with me.
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To be fair, as great as she is a jumper and skater, her Turandot program and her Olympic free skate is kind of forgettable.
But you know who else did have a memorable performance of Turandot? Jason brown in 2011. First year in seniors, perfect skate and standing ovation. He really is something quite special.
For you. But for me I can only think at her program and her beautiful Ina Bauer each time I hear Nessun Dorma.
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Oh Yes of course! The legendary inna bauer program
Puccini in Torino... Saluto! Actually i think Yuna's version might have even paid subtle tribute to Shizuka's version at 2.17min - her ina bauer came on at the exact same music moment as Arakawa's Olympics version at 3min22. The 2 programs are rather different emphasis different aspects of their skating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ9EaMEk74g
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Mirai has won the recent 2015 U.S. Collegiate Championships, are her videos out yet?! I am intrigued by her choices this year, less princessy, contemporary and seems more her.
SP Demon - Previously a lovely exhibition choreographed by Adam Rippon
FS The Great Gatsby lyric edit : Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey, Back to Black by Beyonce
SP Demon - Previously a lovely exhibition choreographed by Adam Rippon
FS The Great Gatsby lyric edit : Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey, Back to Black by Beyonce
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I really want to see her skate these programs, too! I'm hoping she can relate to them more than some of the classical stuff she has tried recently; her exhibitions hae really brought out her character more, including when she's skated to Demons.
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3...2015-08-09-16-15-29-2015-08-09-23-09-03_sport
00:00:01 - Natasha Purich and Drew Wolfe
00:08:00 - Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau
00:16:00 - Vanessa Grenier and Maxime Deschamps
00:00:01 - Natasha Purich and Drew Wolfe
00:08:00 - Julianne Seguin and Charlie Bilodeau
00:16:00 - Vanessa Grenier and Maxime Deschamps
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