2024-25 Rhythm Dance theme

[Diana Delafield]

The ones I love are all warhorses, I'm afraid. There was a random question on Facebook last week: What is the best music soundtrack from a film that was not a musical? The answers were all the standards that I love to skate to myself -- The Mission, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves, Robin Hood, Somewhere in Time..... I can't remember if I've ever seen Apollo 13 or JFK or Born on the Fourth of July used but I have a sneaking fondness for their music even if they're more suited to American male skaters. In the dim distant past, I've used Zorba the Greek and The Killing Fields. I've seen a couple of skaters use Life is Beautiful (I think Dubreuil/Lauzon did), but it somehow never worked. It always looked too slow and it seemed to be difficult to raise the volume enough. I'm sure I can think of more in time, soundtracks and classical music being my inevitable preferences. I don't personally like storytelling on the ice for pairs. Kind of hard to work the required elements logically into a narrative. I prefer to have the music just set a mood and tempo.

I know this is going to be music for the dancers. I just said what I don't personally like to use for pairs as an aside, meaning "but storytelling may be easier for dancers to do". And the soundtracks I like have bits here and there with enough of a rhythm for dancers. I think. Goody, now I have an excuse for getting out my CDs of all of those and wallowing in my favourites on a grey, rainy afternoon

 

[elektra blue]

Anything with waltzes

come on, name a soundtrack or two

The ones I love are all warhorses, I'm afraid. There was a random question on Facebook last week: What is the best music soundtrack from a film that was not a musical? The answers were all the standards that I love to skate to myself -- The Mission, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves, Robin Hood, Somewhere in Time..... I can't remember if I've ever seen Apollo 13 or JFK or Born on the Fourth of July used but I have a sneaking fondness for their music even if they're more suited to American male skaters. In the dim distant past, I've used Zorba the Greek and The Killing Fields. I've seen a couple of skaters use Life is Beautiful (I think Dubreuil/Lauzon did), but it somehow never worked. It always looked too slow and it seemed to be difficult to raise the volume enough. I'm sure I can think of more in time, soundtracks and classical music being my inevitable preferences. I don't personally like storytelling on the ice for pairs. Kind of hard to work the required elements logically into a narrative. I prefer to have the music just set a mood and tempo.

i love reading your knowledgeable opinions! there's always something to learn. i hate that teams always choose to portray just one range of emotion in a team dynamic (i guess because love stories are easier to interpret) but it's kind of limitating, don't you think? and there's the abstract option, don't play characters, just give bodies to the music. among the ones you names i'd love Robin Hood or Dance with the wolves

I know this is going to be music for the dancers. I just said what I don't personally like to use for pairs as an aside, meaning "but storytelling may be easier for dancers to do". And the soundtracks I like have bits here and there with enough of a rhythm for dancers. I think. Goody, now I have an excuse for getting out my CDs of all of those and wallowing in my favourites on a grey, rainy afternoon

you're welcome

 

[skatingguy]

let's assume this isn't a rumor, what soundtrack would you like to see on ice?

I think I've made this joke about a thousand times already, but 'Maybe someone could do Rocky? '.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

The ones I love are all warhorses, I'm afraid. There was a random question on Facebook last week: What is the best music soundtrack from a film that was not a musical? The answers were all the standards that I love to skate to myself -- The Mission, Out of Africa, Dances With Wolves, Robin Hood, Somewhere in Time..... I can't remember if I've ever seen Apollo 13 or JFK or Born on the Fourth of July used but I have a sneaking fondness for their music even if they're more suited to American male skaters. In the dim distant past, I've used Zorba the Greek and The Killing Fields. I've seen a couple of skaters use Life is Beautiful (I think Dubreuil/Lauzon did), but it somehow never worked. It always looked too slow and it seemed to be difficult to raise the volume enough. I'm sure I can think of more in time, soundtracks and classical music being my inevitable preferences. I don't personally like storytelling on the ice for pairs. Kind of hard to work the required elements logically into a narrative. I prefer to have the music just set a mood and tempo.

Apollo and JFK were both done by Paul Wylie and amazingly.

The only Life is Beautiful that I've ever seen that was done well was Jeremy Abbott.

 

[snowed]

come on, name a soundtrack or two

My (sneaky) point was to forget about soundtracks and let's just have the waltz as the theme. The last waltz requirement was the last year of compulsory pattern dances, right?
But Anna Karenina has the Second waltz in it, I'll take that.
I googled movies with Blue Danube and I've got 2001 A Space Odyssey. This may get into an interesting choreography, maybe too interesting... bringing me back to the point, I wish for some classic waltz interpretation of a waltz pattern dance.

 

[Diana Delafield]

My (sneaky) point was to forget about soundtracks and let's just have the waltz as the theme. The last waltz requirement was the last year of compulsory pattern dances, right?
But Anna Karenina has the Second waltz in it, I'll take that.
I googled movies with Blue Danube and I've got 2001 A Space Odyssey. This may get into an interesting choreography, maybe too interesting... bringing me back to the point, I wish for some classic waltz interpretation of a waltz pattern dance.

One waltz performance that has stuck in my mind was by Michel Brunet and one of his partners in the mid-1990s (Canadian championships probably, or Worlds) when the waltz was the prescribed rhythm. They used It's A Grand Night for Singing and the whole smiling audience was swaying along with them. The most infectious "swoop" I've ever seen. (Rodgers and Hammerstein, State Fair)

 

[Diana Delafield]

Apollo and JFK were both done by Paul Wylie and amazingly.

Right, I'd forgotten. He always did have a fondness for movie soundtracks. Using that to get back on topic, the music for Henry V, which Paul Wiley memorably used, the Wooing of Katherine section would work for dancers.

 

[snowed]

One waltz performance that has stuck in my mind was by Michel Brunet and one of his partners in the mid-1990s (Canadian championships probably, or Worlds) when the waltz was the prescribed rhythm. They used It's A Grand Night for Singing and the whole smiling audience was swaying along with them. The most infectious "swoop" I've ever seen. (Rodgers and Hammerstein, State Fair)

Thank you for sharing, must be this one right?

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[Diana Delafield]

Thank you for sharing, must be this one right?

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Thank you! I was close -- right skaters, wrong song. I even remember the costumes, and Michel's big smile. (Now I'm trying to remember who *did* use Grand Night for Singing because I'm sure somebody did that year. An exercise for the aging brain.)

Oops. I let that sit for awhile and then remembered that it was me. Is there still a gold rhythm dance test? A friend who was working on his coaching certification asked me to partner him in it and that's the music we used. Blush.

 

[icewhite]

Well, it's the Rhythm Dance, so I think a lot of great soundtracks are out... but... still so many left.
Despicable Me!

Marie Antoinette.
Volver.
La Boum. Nobody picked it for the 80s.
Rashomon.
Magic Mike
Lola runs.
...
Seriously I wouldn't even know where to start and where to end.

 

[elektra blue]

I think I've made this joke about a thousand times already, but 'Maybe someone could do Rocky? '.

again? i mean, we have F/G's this year

My (sneaky) point was to forget about soundtracks and let's just have the waltz as the theme. The last waltz requirement was the last year of compulsory pattern dances, right?
But Anna Karenina has the Second waltz in it, I'll take that.
I googled movies with Blue Danube and I've got 2001 A Space Odyssey. This may get into an interesting choreography, maybe too interesting... bringing me back to the point, I wish for some classic waltz interpretation of a waltz pattern dance.

if only they considered to bring back patterns...

Well, it's the Rhythm Dance, so I think a lot of great soundtracks are out... but... still so many left.
Despicable Me!

Marie Antoinette.
Volver.
La Boum. Nobody picked it for the 80s.
Rashomon.
Magic Mike
Lola runs.
...
Seriously I wouldn't even know where to start and where to end.

Magic Mike would be kind of a masterpiece...

i'll name three, that are also among my skating wishes: Le Roi Danse, Barry Lyndon and Excalibur

 

[skatingguy]

again? i mean, we have F/G's this year

That's what I meant - Fear/Gibson could just keep it as their rhythm dance.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

That's what I meant - Fear/Gibson could just keep their rhythm dance.

Fear/Gibson's Rhythm Dance this year is to the Eurythmics. Their FREE DANCE is to Rocky.

 

[skatingguy]

Fear/Gibson's Rhythm Dance this year is to the Eurythmics. Their FREE DANCE is to Rocky.

What I meant was keep it as their rhythm dance

 

[DancingCactus]

Could we get a Lord of the Rings program?....Which goes to show the stupidity of the soundtrack idea. Squeezing the epicness of some of the most popular movie soundtracks into a rhythm dance just doesn't seem feasible. Could you pack an Ennio Morricone soundtrack into 3 minutes? Was Adam's Star Wars his SP or FS?

 

[icewhite]

Could we get a Lord of the Rings program?....Which goes to show the stupidity of the soundtrack idea. Squeezing the epicness of some of the most popular movie soundtracks into a rhythm dance just doesn't seem feasible. Could you pack an Ennio Morricone soundtrack into 3 minutes? Was Adam's Star Wars his SP or FS?

I think most epic soundtracks are really difficult for a rhythm dance. Which is why I picked pop-ish soundtracks. There are many music scores that move me the way the are supposed to, but they would only work for a free.

 

[DancingCactus]

Ok, I dare someone to use music from Breakfast Club. Or 10 things I hate about you....I actually think Theo and Loicia would be great at something like that.

 

[4everchan]

I am going to be mean

Death in Venice (Mahler : Adagietto from 5th Symphony)


Platoon (Barber : Adagio for Strings)


There will be blood (Brahms : Violin Concerto)

2001 A Space Odyssey (Strauss : Also spracht Zarathustra)

Since people like to skate to requiems

Amadeus (Mozart's Requiem)
Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (Verdi : Requiem -Dies Irae)

 

[4everchan]

Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes (Verdi : Requiem -Dies Irae)

Actually, Gouttes d'eau deserves its own entry. Other than the Verdi, the soundtrack is epic...

• "Träume", performed by Françoise Hardy
• Symphonie n°4 en sol majeur, by Gustav Mahler
• Requiem, 1. Dies Irae, by Giuseppe Verdi
• Zadok the Priest, by George Frideric Handel
• "Tanze Samba mit Mir", performed by Tony Holiday

Sorry but yeah... just showing how crazy this theme is

 

[labgoat]

Could we get a Lord of the Rings program?

Eliana & Ethan Peal have LOTR as their FD this year