So, it seems like Weaver/Poje are doing Adagio from Spartacus for their FD!
https://mobile.twitter.com/WeaverPoje/status/892020200970739718
omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, it seems like Weaver/Poje are doing Adagio from Spartacus for their FD!
https://mobile.twitter.com/WeaverPoje/status/892020200970739718
So, it seems like Weaver/Poje are doing Adagio from Spartacus for their FD!
https://mobile.twitter.com/WeaverPoje/status/892020200970739718
I'd like to push back on this a bit. It's true that it's been awhile since we've seen a Carmen program from the any of the top skaters (at least as far as I can remember), but that doesn't mean that Habanera isn't a popular choice for Carmen programs. In my memory, Habanera -- and even Habanera+footwork -- is the most common feature of all Carmen programs (at least, when women skaters are involved). In fact, Gabby Daleman, our other big-name Carmen so far this year, announced her program with a clip of herself skating a step sequence to Habanera. (Although I give Gabby credit: she has put a different twist on this choice by including vocals.)
I think it is legitimate to complain about skaters reusing the same cuts of music. Karen may be admirable in her attack, and the music may be powerful no matter how many times the audience has heard it paired with the same skating elements, but there is still something derivative about a program composed in this way... literally because it was derived from other figure skating programs rather than from the original score.
How amazing would it be to see a Carmen step out onto the ice in a costume composed of pinks, riotous green, and black fringe, like this design (far right), and then skate her step sequence to the flirty and melodic opening section of Seguidilla rather than Habanera? The music and general lore of Carmen is rich with possibility, yet skaters resort to tinkering around the edges of a few costume and musical options over and over again. I sympathize with audience members who want to see something different.
Why does the video have so many dislikes?, the choreo is average and predictable, but her skating is fabulous, and more considering we are in july.
Apparently this is the SP for Nathan Chen. Song is Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine.
Edited: Apparently the person who had the clips took them down.
ETA: Have to say -- it's a pretty fresh choice. If he can maintain the performance level here AND do the quads, it's going to be a tough program to beat.
So, it seems like Weaver/Poje are doing Adagio from Spartacus for their FD!
https://mobile.twitter.com/WeaverPoje/status/892020200970739718
Apparently this is the SP for Nathan Chen. Song is Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine.
Edited: Apparently the person who had the clips took them down.
ETA: Have to say -- it's a pretty fresh choice. If he can maintain the performance level here AND do the quads, it's going to be a tough program to beat.
It's by Shae-Lynn. Here's the 3rd part of the same runthrugh reposted:His SP looks magnificent. Do we know if it's Marina's choreography?
Last season I said that for the Olympic year here should go edgy/modern for SP, classical ballet for LP. We're halfway there.
It's by Shae-Lynn. Here's the 3rd part of the same runthrugh reposted:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXOr1TgF21I/?taken-by=yukari.0317
Chock/Bates FD : La la Land
source : instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSg7pZAh-_w/?taken-by=chockolate02
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSg7pZXF90f/?taken-by=evan_bates
Prepare yourselves, this is going to be THE warhorse of the Olympic season.
I wonder.... This may turn out not to be the case. So far it seems Swan Lake and Black Swan are ahead, for that award.