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And from 1991 Skate America, Tonya Harding skating to Tone Loc's "People Are Still Having Sex"

Not the typical music to pick for that era.



In 1990-91 her SP was to "Two Tribes" from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. She wore a particularly startling costume.

 
Much as I love to watch Oona and Gage Brown, I can't understand why they'd pick something like "Jump Around" by House of Pain, Deee-Lite, and DJ PLay for their newest RD. Their skating to it seems rather 'fun' but the sound of that music makes my ears bleed! For me, they are better than this.
 
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Susanna Pöykilö from Finland had once a Finnish song "vanhoja poikia viiksekkäitä". If you knew the lyrics maybe old man dreaming is not something young girls would choose. I edit this post later and tell more about it.

Edit: This was her SP program, the last one she had before retirement, I could not find video but is translated in English " The Legend of the two old guys with a mustache". It tells about lonely old man who lived his life lonely but had a friendship with a seal. Hers was a musical cover, cause on that time lyrics were not allowed. The music is not bad for FS, but when knowing the story in the song it is quite unique choice.
 
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dorispulaski said:
The Yankee Polka based SD in the 2012-13 season produced a number of quirky programs, not just the "Like a Virgin Polka."
:love:

My favorite was Davis & White skating the Yankee Polka to music from the ballet Giselle - somehow the program was true both to the ballet and the polka!



In case you wondered why it is odd to cross a ballet with
the Yankee Polka Compulsory Dance, here is a typical presentation of the Yankee Polka CD. Yes, the pointed heels were a typical feature. And yes, this is current World Champion Evan Bates with his previous partner:

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I adore this Giselle Yankee Polka - by far the best of the Yankee Polka programs that season. A really ingenious blend of ballet music with a pattern that wouldn't seem to accommodate it, at first blush. Using the march section of the Giselle score was key to the success of the program, I think.
 
Arriba627 said:
What could have been one of the worst programs ever never came to be. Benoit was going to use a song called Strange Fruit for Moa Iwano of Japan. The lyrics are rather gruesome, and I couldn't imagine why anyone would skate to that.
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The only reason I can think anyone would agree to skate to this is that they like the sound of the song, but do not understand English, or what the song is even about. It's definitely not a number to want to 'immortalize' on ice, that's for certain.
 
Allikat said:
The only reason I can think anyone would agree to skate to this is that they like the sound of the song, but do not understand English, or what the song is even about. It's definitely not a number to want to 'immortalize' on ice, that's for certain.
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I remember that, and I'm pretty sure it was just that. I suspect more often than we realise, the skaters don't actually understand (or they misunderstand, language being what it is and English being as allusive as the next one) the words they are skating to.

Totally a non sequitor but can I offer a young Evan Bates as a cowboy? You do need to go to youtube
to watch but it's totally worth it.

 
Adrian Schultheiss skating in a straight jacket, 2010 LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8hj3QbVU8g

A couple of unusual programs from the 2001 GP final:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o8e0Clc2aU Stanick Jeannette SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H16GRE52Zvw Ilia Klimkin LP. @1:43 he spins on his right foot, changes the spin direction, changes foot, jumps into a change of foot again and does a 3S on the exit from the spin. I think the problem with this program is that it looses dynamics towards the end and feels a bit too long, but the first half is very good.
 
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Isk said:
Adrian Schultheiss skating in a straight jacket, 2010 LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8hj3QbVU8g

A couple of unusual programs from the 2001 GP final:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o8e0Clc2aU Stanick Jeannette SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H16GRE52Zvw Ilia Klimkin LP. @1:43 he spins on his right foot, changes the spin direction, changes foot, jumps into a change of foot again and does a 3S on the exit from the spin. I think the problem with this program is that it looses dynamics towards the end and feels a bit too long.
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Stanick had many crazy programs and costumes to match. I loved him...
 
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean were wonderful dancers, and they did not generally do crazy music or programs until you got to the exhibition; however, their 1983 Original Set Pattern Dance fits the bill.

The required dance for 1983 was rock n roll. Lyrics were not allowed, which really limited the choice of appropriate music. Here, they were really the only team that managed to do the bop in the way we did in the pre Beatles era. Lots of very tangled arm movements and a fair amount of acrobatics. The music is "Dance" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Caddick, but it sounds like a Nut-rockered version of "Variations on a Theme by Paganini" to me. The piece was part of a musical called " Song and Dance."

 
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Isabelle & Paul Duchesnay FRA were known for being different. In 1991 their season started with Europeans because of injury. The FD they performed did not score well because it was a little too different, especially the costumes.

They used a remake of their 1990 FD instead at Worlds.

Here is a video of the only performance of their Mirror (or Reflections ) FD.

 
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dorispulaski said:
Isabelle & Paul Duchesnay FRA were known for being different. In 1991 their season started with Europeans because of injury. The FD they performed did not score well because it was a little too different, especially the costumrs.

They used a remake of their 1990 FD instead at Worlds.

Here is a video of the only performance of their Mirror (or Reflections ) FD.

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Aw, the ending was cut off. The part where one of them slipped and they landed sliding across the ice in a tangle of arms and legs on the last note of the music. I remember that program vividly because of the "combination fall" at the end. Up until then I had liked the program, even though I was never one of their fans. I'd liked the music which could not have been used by any skaters other than ice dancers.
 
dorispulaski said:
Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean were wonderful dancers, and they did not generally do crazy music or programs until you got to the exhibition; however, their 1983 Original Set Pattern Dance fits the bill.

The required dance for 1983 was rock n roll. Lyrics were not allowed, which really limited the choice of appropriate music. Here, they were really the only team that managed to do the bop in the way we did in the pre Beatles era. Lots of very tangled arm movements and a fair amount of acrobatics. The music is "Dance" by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Caddick, but it sounds like a Nut-rockered version of "Variations on a Theme by Paganini" to me. The piece was part a musical called " Song and Dance.

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Yes, it is a rock variation of Paganini:
en.wikipedia.org

Variations (Andrew Lloyd Webber album) - Wikipedia

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Song and Dance - Wikipedia

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