Further Up and Further In
Polina’s recent interview with The Skating Lesson is a delight, by turns serious and thoughtful, light-hearted and funny, dusted with sass and shade, and wreathed always with smiles and laughter.
Towards the end, she speaks of the “Fairy Dance” music she’s skating to in her long program this season. She loves it, but she knows that some people do not. It’s taken from the score to the movie, “Peter Pan,” by James Newton Howard, and one of the pieces is called “Tinkerbell.” She wonders whether they’re just “bugged” by the name of it. If it was called something else, they would be all right with it.
When you really listen to it, she says, it’s just beautiful and really her style. It’s very balletic and very lyrical. She’s not portraying Tinkerbell, but a woodland fairy, and it’s a coming of age piece. But that’s who she is, too, someone coming of age.
She loves “The Nutcracker” ballet, with the Tchaikovsky score, of course, and wanted to find something with a similar effect. She remembered the exciting dances in it, “but then the snowflakes come out, then the Snow Fairy comes out.” It’s so gentle and pretty, so lyrical and beautiful to look at. That’s what she wanted for her long program, something different from all the dramatic pieces the others skate to, something pretty and gentle.
What Polina says here is most intriguing. Her voice is that which a young woman finds when she speaks to a lover for the first time, or about something she loves, hushed but not without meaning found as much in the interstices between words as in the words themselves.
It is like a flower with a secret hidden within its tightly furled petals, only now being revealed as it blossoms.
As she goes further in and further up, she becomes aware, more and more, of whom she was meant to be, this one who will give expression to the music in dance, so that others might see and better hear. May her journey continue, now in a place far away, and may hearts be opened as she has opened her own.
Totally agree but I hope she at least changes the dress, I don´t have any problem with it but all people were very clear that apparently it is horrible and it would be terrible to lose points because something so fool and easy to correct even with a simpler and cheaper dress.