Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi also had a pot-pourri of different airs from the ballet. What I found original is that they started with the beginning of the Third Act, the slow descent of the Shadows: this part requires absolute perfection from the corps-de-ballet, but when it is reached it gives me goosebumps; I believe though, that for people who don't know and love ballet, this part is very boring (but not the music):
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Of course, there are many wonderful pas-de-deux (duos) in this ballet, but the male principal, Solor, has a number of very different vairations, and I think that its music is one of the best ballet musics. Here's Vadim Muntagirov as Solor:
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But what stuns me, rather than the choice of the music (I'm sure that Deniss Vasiljevs will make a very creditable Solor) is that I don't know any other ballet dancer or choreographer, who would have been the main choreographer of a Figure Skating competitive program? Or am I wrong?
It's not that ballet dancers are strangers to Figure Skating, far from it, but although some Figure Skating programs can evoke ballet, incorporate some ballet moves as choreographic elements, overall skating and dancing are very different and generally involve very different moves. I think that ballet dancers are forbidden to skate, because of the high risk of injury due to this difference.
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