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The poster didn't ask for judging skaters overal gracefulness/beauty or capacity for astonishing inherent musicallity, nor anybody asking from skaters to have that. You don't need to like something to call it balletic.
I guess I misunderstood Colormyworld's point. I thought she was saying that to be "balletic" a skating performance must present a specific character from a specific ballet, along with the expected choreography traditionally associated with the role.
But I think that a skater might do ballet-like movements and poses more generically.
(Not to mention that other fans might use the word "balletic" in a different sense. "Graceful and pretty." How is this "balletic"? Well, ballerinas are graceful and pretty. I personally do not take offense at this appropriation of terminology.
Now, whether the result is an esthetically pleasing performance or whether it comes off as mere shtick, that is a separate question altogether. Personally, to me the John Curry piece is unique in the history of figure skating with respect to the quality of the balletic gloss. It seems that not everyone on this board agrees -- it is astonishing to me that they don't , but oh well, that's why we have a forum.
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