Ideas for Virtue & Moir

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Btw, did anyone see them this weekend at any of the CSOI stops?
I haven't heard too much about their new program, other than that it's some type of ballet program, and it opens with Tessa taking ballet lessons from Scott?

 

[cassieandcheetah]

Btw, did anyone see them this weekend at any of the CSOI stops?
I haven't heard too much about their new program, other than that it's some type of ballet program, and it opens with Tessa taking ballet lessons from Scott?

they must have gone back to their old exh program no?

 

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they must have gone back to their old exh program no?

No. The old program had Tessa giving ballet lessons to Scott. But seriously, I've heard this new program also incorporates a "barre" of some kind? Hopefully someone who has actually seen the program can give better information.

 

[silver.blades]

I saw the new exabition at the CSOI stop in Toronto. They start at the barre doing basic plies and tendus and then take the barre with them when they branch out. It's a pretty good program, not spectacular, but much better than the "Dare You to Move" one they used at Worlds. It's very similar to traditional ballet in style and really highlights their great lines and quiet edges.

 

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Thanks for the info, silver.blades! One question -- how do they take the barre with them as they branch out? Are they just taking the top piece? What do they do with it then?

 

[silver.blades]

they just take the top of the barre. They mostly just use it to skate further apart while still being connected, but they use it for a few lifts as well

 

[Tinymavy15]

I'd love to see V&M do an exhibition to the waltz from "Coppelia" (with Tessa playing the doll, and Scott the doll-maker). The potential for good comedy is pretty high.

I would love to see them do that for a freedance. She could really pull off the doll look. great idea.

I think they would do marvelously with music from The Notebook. I just keep thinking of that music for them.

That would be great, I admit, but they seriously need to branch out and explore different themes.

 

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That would be great, I admit, but they seriously need to branch out and explore different themes.

No kidding. They need to do something really different this season. Since Shpilband and Zoueva aren't really known for their creativity in ice dance choreography, my fear only grows....

 

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You know what might be interesting for V&M? Something akin to the "Three Preludes" piece Marina choreographed for Katia Gordeeva. It had a lot of interesting movements and was very different from anything Marina had ever given Katia before. Can't access youtube right now, but I'm sure there's a copy of it floating around somewhere on there.

 

[jyshin]

I was browsing through the photo updates on V/M website, and found some of their movements and ideas strikingly similar to what I saw in Boris Eifman's choreography... wondering if this is coincidence...

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Compare V/M's upside-down lift from the Umbrella of Cherburg
http://www.virtue-moir.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=54&pos=12

with the similar lifts from Eifman's Anna Karenina
http://www.balletto.net/redazione/immagini/1796A.jpg
http://www.cultuurpodium.nl/images/annakarenina7.jpg

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Compare V/M's photos from the 2008 CSOI with the bar
http://www.virtue-moir.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=58

and photos from Eifman's Musagète also with the bar
http://www.newstage.co.kr/photo/200710/Musagete.jpg
http://www.teatr.dlawas.com/tdw/images/stories/spektakle/.thumbnails/.thumb_musagete2.JPG
http://www.artsjournal.com/tobias/images/musa.jpg