This journalist is infamous in Russia due to criticizing skaters a lot, asking very provocative questions and basically trying his best to create media drama after every competition. But props for him for not backpedaling when organizers allowed him to participate and he did his best
Her shaman has nothing to do with Tatar roots, definitely not their culture. It was more of a generic 'shaman' with no specified ethnicity, maybe even inspired by some video game.
Absolutely. I've never laughed so much while watching FS...I think the show was close to maximum fan-juice you can squeeze out of figure skating.
People say that Liza actually helped him a bit with her 'Toxic' moves as they're training in the same rink.This was the greatest thing I've ever seen, hilarious!!!
Hahahaha I wonder if Liza, Alina Z and Yagudin were out back going: "Hey, this guy stole our bits!"
One of the judges were not on board though, obviously left his sense of humour at home!
And how do you know that? Obviously it's a romanticized depiction of shamanism, but nevertheless, as far as I know current Volga Tatars originate from a mixture of Turkic and Mongolian tribes and their original religion (or at least earliest known) was Tengriism which definitely contained elements of shamanism, including "generic" versions of it, but who knows for sure.
I'm Russian and have relatives in Tatarstan. Kami depicted a ritual of summoning rain- something not very relevant to Russia, as there's no lack of rain and water on most territories. Most of the indigenous population that had shamanism (or have up to this day) are lived/living in Siberia and her costume doesn't look like any of them to my knowledge (it's pretty cold there mostly). So, her shaman is not depicting some specific ethnicity/tribe, just a generalized image of a tribe shaman. The funny thing is that as far as I'm aware in NA "cultural appropriation" is a negative thing, people are pissed when it happens. It's absolutely the other way in Russia, where it's a sign of immense respect to the people's roots.
Ok, fair enough, so she's paying a tribute to a generalized version of shamanism, let's leave it at that and either way as I said earlier, it's certainly a romanticized version of shamanic rituals, who really knows how they actually danced the rain into existence over a thousand years ago
NGL, this is the sort of show I thought Plushy would excel at. He always did love his exhibition programs. He could have brought back the one with the giant clown head, that one cracked me up first time I saw it. Why the giant head?! Why the balloon?! What did it mean?!
It's soccer on ICE!!! Seems the first judge took that personally.
Matvei bringing out the Winter costume. Shadow puppets! He's always so dramatic. He also appears to be dressed up as Will Farrell from Elf.
Yagudin did win!
at Maxim T's commitment to the wig. It is a wig right?!
He just needed a woman on the ice.
What is the name of the music?Nobody:
Literally nobody:
Zhenya: *uses unusual music*
Fans of this music on Twitter (who have never watched fs before):
The hut she appeared out of and the drum are similar to this picture though. But I don't know. It's not something I know anything about apart from googling.
I live in Western Siberia, where the traditions of small peoples - Khanty, Mansi, Selkup, Nenets - are very strong. My ancestors on my father's side were Voguls, who are also people with archaic beliefs. So we have quite strong traditions of shamanism, I mean, you go 5 kilometers away from a big city, you get to a protected area and you can talk to a shaman there.The hut she appeared out of and the drum are similar to this picture though. But I don't know. It's not something I know anything about apart from googling.
I have to say I like Kamila's program even more with subsequent viewings. It seems two of the judges really despised her to give her such marks.
"What time would you be more comfortable moving the Olympics to have time to hold your event with the proper scope?"
