Folk dance again huh? It probably has something to do with the Olympics. I can't see another reason why they would do it two years in a row. I guess most teams will just use their current program or a slight variation of it.
If I had my druthers they'd do more CDs and the FD would be junked and the OD expanded and returned to the old style without pair spins and lifts (the occasional twizzle would be allowed).
Agree! Just what is it that one judges in Dance? The basics are superb with all the top teams, and only minor errors on that night happen leaving more than half still looking good. :think: How does one pick a winner? By bushy blonde hair? by cuteness? by certain nationality? by reputation?The problem with dance is not so much that there's not a lot to score, but that audiences are blind to most of it (rather like figures in general).
I remember being blown away by the Duchesnays in 1988 and kind of .... underwhelmed by them once I understood more about ice dance (did she really _do_ anything those first few years?). Great performers but not great technicians - if anything the judges had them too high and close to Klimova/Ponomarenko who were .... basically ... perfect (which makes them almost boring, how can you monday morning quarterback perfection?)
And while CoP has, on the surface, made Dance more interesting, it's done so by corrupting the very nature of the discipline.
I would love to read an academic paper on Skate Dance, and written by a judge. That kind of topic is what should be appearing in the skating magazines and not just the fluff stuff.
Agree! Just what is it that one judges in Dance? The basics are superb with all the top teams
Indeed, if one is avidly rooting for a particular Team, one sees that team as superior to others, and does not understand, in some cases, that a judge gave them a bad score.But some are clearly superior to others.
Delobel & Schoenfelder > everyone else.