the thing with Rach 2 is that each movement has been used to create really nice programs... I like that Cousins is using the 2nd movement here which should be done more often. What is annoying me the most is those who use all 3 movements (so 30 minutes of music) in a LP of 4 minutes... This shouldn't happen. Same with those who repeat musical phrases in ways that it just doesn't make sense or omit main themes.My favourite is still this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfcVJLcknrk (Robin Causins, 1991)
The assignment didn't specify it couldn't be a dated pro program.
Sure, I agree, the program was well skated, Mao gave her all, and most people would not notice. OTOH, this is such a well known piece of music, it probably deserves to be called a masterpiece?... And then such an amateur cut. Why? Give the piece justice, cut it properly and try to make choreography match it in such a way that they match. This would be good choreography, right? Anyway, it's these little things in Mao's programs that make some of them not my favs, even when from purely sports point of view they are great. Nitpicking...
^ Oh, that was marvelous. Thank you for posting it. Unusual music cuts and the choreography followed the music perfectly, especially the placement of jumps.
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Lol. I remember getting my eyes wet a bit with Yuna's. It was strange. My brain couldn't help but pick apart her choreography, yet to the heart it simply didn't matter.I don't know if "Send in the Clowns" is a warhorse, but here are my two favorites.
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I think it was the cello.
It was also the guy shouting, I believe, "Hwaiting!" as she got into her opening pose. Something just got me here. It helped she could sell anything at all.I think it was the cello.
This board is my kind of rabbit hole! So many great videos, so little time...^ OK, so I had to look up "hwaiting," and I'm glad I did.
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I had never seen that performance. And her charlotte spiral-- exquisite! Sasha was her own worst enemy; it's such a shame that she got in her way so much.Here is Sasha Cohen's finest performance ever, Swan Lake at 2004 Marshalls cheesiest. The first time she ever beat Michelle Kwan and maybe the first time she ever got through a whole program and hit every jump.
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(One of) the best Swan Lakes.
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The worst = someone dressed in half black, half white feathers and flapping their arms.
I still remember watching that performance. It had me in tears and I wondered what Michelle could ever do to top it. Then came "Lyra Angelica."Here is one of the best-choreographed (Lori Nichol) ladies' Short Programs ever, IMHO. It's Rachmaninov piano concerto #3, not #2, but anyway... By the way there is also some music taken from a Rachmaninov piano trio -- wWkipedia says #3, by I always thought it was #4 (Dumky). Maybe @4everchan can clear that up for me?
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Here is one of the best-choreographed (Lori Nichol) ladies' Short Programs ever, IMHO. It's Rachmaninov piano concerto #3, not #2, but anyway... By the way there is also some music taken from a Rachmaninov piano trio -- wWkipedia says #3, by I always thought it was #4 (Dumky). Maybe @4everchan can clear that up for me?
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Choose a piece of music that has been overused in figure skating over the decades.
Give at least one example of an excellent interpretation of that music, and at least one example of a skater who lets the music do the artistic work for them with minimal effort toward choreography and interpretation.
There may or may not be a direct connection to the success of the elements or the quality of the skating skills. But try not to use a disastrous performance or a skater with weak skating skills as the example of poor interpretation. What I'm interested in is skaters whose interpretation of music that is supposedly easy to interpret leaves much to be desired. (Maybe they did better on other occasions or with other programs . . . or on other aspects of what's covered under IJS program components, but this one didn't really showcase interpretive skills.)
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This was an all-time great performance to music that (IMO) is structured to do a lot of the heavy lifting for the skater
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I'm almost sorry that performance was so great, because it led to many other performances to the same music that were not so great.
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And some lazier attempts at interpretation
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