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I have exactly the same feeling. It's heartbreaking to see that "supposed" adult people used Adelina superficially to create a case. It was Adelina but it could have been Yulia, after all they don't care
Yulia Lipnitskaya
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I have exactly the same feeling. It's heartbreaking to see that "supposed" adult people used Adelina superficially to create a case. It was Adelina but it could have been Yulia, after all they don't care
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Love those arms.
I fully agree with alebi, I'm twice as old as Yulia myself and I have a lot of admiration and respect. :yes:
My final post on the "Invisible Yulia." I promise.
Yulia is more than an exceptional skater. She has the expressiveness of a ballerina, the skill of a skater, and the musical sensitivity of a composer.
SL is a dance shaped by the notes of the music, where each note is translated into a gesture. She has assembled an incredible array of body language in order to express actual musical content whether simple or complex. The musical quality of her performance between about 1 and 2 minutes (beginning where she stops against the wall) is stunning. The music in this section is layered in two parts, piano and strings. If you focus on the correspondence between notes and movement, you will see many levels of complexity as she represents each note physically, weaving the two voices into incredible and beautiful combinations of gestures. It is greatness. Yulia the innovator does far more than move to the music. Her body is the instrument which transforms the musical score into the visual dimension, each note precisely shaped and with full drama. Even her jumps and spins relate directly to the notes. The end of the piece consists of two high notes on solo violin with a harp-like embellishment rising beneath the held second note. She expresses this with a continuous spin progressing through many positions. On the first note she hovers for its duration, then drops to the lowest position when the violin plays its final note. Then, in parallel movement to the rising harp-like figure, her spin slowly rises to a dizzying height in magnificent representation of that final swell of feeling. This is a thrilling example of how her direct, wonderful body language makes for a full and enchanting vision of musical content. Her vision.
In her parallel universes she is about skating and she is about music. No other skater expresses music so thoroughly, so faithfully. so personoally. She is like the virtuoso pianist who plays all the notes and from the heart. For musicians, skill is the servant of self-expression, a means rather than an end. With surpassing skill and an iron will to fully express the music, she creates irresistible beauty that everyone relates to on some level. She chooses music she feels deeply, then does whatever it takes to make the difficult look natural. In the end, she projects spontaneous beauty which draws us into her world.
Unfortunately she finds herself in a contrived sterile system that rewards maybe a quarter of her accomplishments. The artistic merit of her work is undervalued even more than her extraordinary spins. Competitively, true musical expression is a handicap. But she is sincere and in touch with herself. Thus she has a lot at stake, not just a performance score but personal validation as well. A mindless deduction from a bean counter can wound like an arrow through her heart. It seems she alone can raise skating to a true art form accessible to all. I hope that she continues to integrate her unique skating and musical gifts despite temptations to take an easier path. If so, her creative genius, talents, courage, originality and determination will forever transform the art of figure skating to the benefit of everyone.
Yulia is more than an exceptional skater. She has the expressiveness of a ballerina, the skill of a skater, and the musical sensitivity of a composer.
SL is a dance shaped by the notes of the music, where each note is translated into a gesture. She has assembled an incredible array of body language in order to express actual musical content whether simple or complex. The musical quality of her performance between about 1 and 2 minutes (beginning where she stops against the wall) is stunning. The music in this section is layered in two parts, piano and strings. If you focus on the correspondence between notes and movement, you will see many levels of complexity as she represents each note physically, weaving the two voices into incredible and beautiful combinations of gestures. It is greatness. Yulia the innovator does far more than move to the music. Her body is the instrument which transforms the musical score into the visual dimension, each note precisely shaped and with full drama. Even her jumps and spins relate directly to the notes. The end of the piece consists of two high notes on solo violin with a harp-like embellishment rising beneath the held second note. She expresses this with a continuous spin progressing through many positions. On the first note she hovers for its duration, then drops to the lowest position when the violin plays its final note. Then, in parallel movement to the rising harp-like figure, her spin slowly rises to a dizzying height in magnificent representation of that final swell of feeling. This is a thrilling example of how her direct, wonderful body language makes for a full and enchanting vision of musical content. Her vision.
In her parallel universes she is about skating and she is about music. No other skater expresses music so thoroughly, so faithfully. so personoally. She is like the virtuoso pianist who plays all the notes and from the heart. For musicians, skill is the servant of self-expression, a means rather than an end. With surpassing skill and an iron will to fully express the music, she creates irresistible beauty that everyone relates to on some level. She chooses music she feels deeply, then does whatever it takes to make the difficult look natural. In the end, she projects spontaneous beauty which draws us into her world.
Unfortunately she finds herself in a contrived sterile system that rewards maybe a quarter of her accomplishments. The artistic merit of her work is undervalued even more than her extraordinary spins. Competitively, true musical expression is a handicap. But she is sincere and in touch with herself. Thus she has a lot at stake, not just a performance score but personal validation as well. A mindless deduction from a bean counter can wound like an arrow through her heart. It seems she alone can raise skating to a true art form accessible to all. I hope that she continues to integrate her unique skating and musical gifts despite temptations to take an easier path. If so, her creative genius, talents, courage, originality and determination will forever transform the art of figure skating to the benefit of everyone.
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I totally agree with both of you who talked about Adelina...
Like it has been said a thousand times before:
Even IF Adelina was overscored- Then it would have been the judges' fault and not hers?! But let's not start that topic again
Is anybody else asking themselves how the hell Yulia and her team are supposed to come up with a program that can keep up leave alone top her Schinderls List ?
I really think that this was an unique almost ..how do you say in English. . Iconic? program and I have no idea how you could create smth superior to that! Not as for skating skills and technical things but as for the story and the memorability.. ?
Like it has been said a thousand times before:
Even IF Adelina was overscored- Then it would have been the judges' fault and not hers?! But let's not start that topic again
Is anybody else asking themselves how the hell Yulia and her team are supposed to come up with a program that can keep up leave alone top her Schinderls List ?
I really think that this was an unique almost ..how do you say in English. . Iconic? program and I have no idea how you could create smth superior to that! Not as for skating skills and technical things but as for the story and the memorability.. ?
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Yulia and her little fox strike again: http://instagram.com/p/qZLQxfkLXP/
Is anybody else asking themselves how the hell Yulia and her team are supposed to come up with a program that can keep up leave alone top her Schinderls List ?
I really think that this was an unique almost ..how do you say in English. . Iconic? program and I have no idea how you could create smth superior to that! Not as for skating skills and technical things but as for the story and the memorability.. ?
i was thinking they should make her 2011 russia nats exhibition into a program. she only performed it once and it was an error-ridden improv skate. iconic song with lots of meaning and back-story, and a rightly sombre/moody piece that would have her clad in black this time. its a piano instrumental of russian rock band Kino's 'Cuckoo.' Wouldn't match Schindler of course because that had the iconic red jacket and all, plus people are not familiar with the backstory of 'Cuckoo', but it would be a good followup anyways, or at least for a short program. (Kino was legendary russian rock/punk band whose iconic frontman died young in a crash, 'Cuckoo' was found on a demotape in the car & released after his death. song was incidentally about death, with singer asking a cuckoo clock "when will i die.").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phmLcWv23xo
Either way i think the best approach to finding a suitable followup to schindler would be to start with music that has iconic backstories or symbolism and determine which would translate well into a skating program.
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I really like that. It's a cello, right?
Sorry it took me so long to respond, I dropped my computer yesterday. The computer went poof! I bought a new one yesterday and when I pressed the power button it didn't work. A brand new computer and it gave me some weird message. When I took it back, the computer guy had no clue what it was either. Luckily I exchanged it for another one and now I have a working computer. I blame the heat for dropping my old one. It's currently 33 degrees
where I am, and if my hands weren't so slippery I never would have dropped it.On another note does anyone know when were going to find out Yulia's SP music?
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for cuteness
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It is(!) and if you understand anything about finger positions it is even more amazing. I played SL in high school orchestra on cello but it was transcribed in a lower(easier) position. It's really hard to play the cello down the neck that far in 4th position and beyond.
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Все начинается с Мечты (Everything starts with a dream)
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Sorry I couldn't make the chat. I did however find this gem on that page today 
http://cs620928.vk.me/v620928750/d232/J5sm1KnHSfY.jpg
I wish the best on this girl and hope to see many smiles out of her in the years to come. Lord knows she deserves it.
http://cs620928.vk.me/v620928750/d232/J5sm1KnHSfY.jpg
I wish the best on this girl and hope to see many smiles out of her in the years to come. Lord knows she deserves it
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I always forget how intense she was as a super youngster. So much attack for a Gala. I
that music selection and would second it for a future program :yes: She has grown in so many ways in just a few years. I can't wait to see what she brings this year. 
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Yes I did notice that!
Maybe that's why I watched Yulia's SL more that Mao's awesome Rach 2....
I'm not dissing Mao or anything but I just find the music selection for her piece a bit too heavy and dark for me...
Maybe that's why I watched Yulia's SL more that Mao's awesome Rach 2....
I'm not dissing Mao or anything but I just find the music selection for her piece a bit too heavy and dark for me...
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Have you noticed how her programs' music is always so simple, melodical and touching?
I'm under impression that other skaters use more complex, less rhytmical pieces, that straightforward humans like me have some trouble to really get into...
Well, it's suits to her age first and than her skating as well.
Do you mean Yulia skating is not complex and simple?
http://33.media.tumblr.com/ff5b7e0831f9d305b6af64114f26a0c1/tumblr_n8zbvkAzwK1tuatvvo2_250.gif
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