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- Dec 25, 2012
Musing on style, music choice, packaging and enjoyment of a program:
I watch a lot of Ballet and ballroom dance, so my standards for figure skaters who choose that music is more exacting. -which is probably why, though Nathan has had a good grounding in Ballet for many years, and has good carriage and clean lines, his ballet inspired SP is not as enjoyable to me. Ballet requires an effortless and seamless control of the body starting from the core and extending outwards from the back, to the shoulders and neck and then to the arms, legs, toes, finger tips. the spell is broken if the lines are dropped at any time (unless deliberately choreographed ). Misha's SP, though also not quite there yet, is much more within the style one would expect from a ballet inspired program and executed better if one is only thinking of the 'feel' of ballet in a skating program.
Boyang on the other hand has a SP program that is totally unpretentious and requires 'only' musicality, a sharp sense of rhythm and 100% commitment to the character. It doesn't ask you to think of it as any kind of artistic breakthrough but just to enjoy. And I do. There isn't any background of my watching some other great artist dance to spider man and throw webs around. I've never seen anyone do it better.
Which is why, throughout the season, Boyang's program has been the most fun for me to watch.
These are, of course, my personal opinions and have nothing to do with how I think skaters should be scored or PCS or judges or anything.
I watch a lot of Ballet and ballroom dance, so my standards for figure skaters who choose that music is more exacting. -which is probably why, though Nathan has had a good grounding in Ballet for many years, and has good carriage and clean lines, his ballet inspired SP is not as enjoyable to me. Ballet requires an effortless and seamless control of the body starting from the core and extending outwards from the back, to the shoulders and neck and then to the arms, legs, toes, finger tips. the spell is broken if the lines are dropped at any time (unless deliberately choreographed ). Misha's SP, though also not quite there yet, is much more within the style one would expect from a ballet inspired program and executed better if one is only thinking of the 'feel' of ballet in a skating program.
Boyang on the other hand has a SP program that is totally unpretentious and requires 'only' musicality, a sharp sense of rhythm and 100% commitment to the character. It doesn't ask you to think of it as any kind of artistic breakthrough but just to enjoy. And I do. There isn't any background of my watching some other great artist dance to spider man and throw webs around. I've never seen anyone do it better.
Which is why, throughout the season, Boyang's program has been the most fun for me to watch.
These are, of course, my personal opinions and have nothing to do with how I think skaters should be scored or PCS or judges or anything.
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