If you are interested to read what Averbukh has to say about Yulia, yet again.:sarcasm:
Thanks to TAHbKA for the translation.
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/ind...ways-be-the-face-of-the-sochi-olympics.95729/
Very interested, and interesting. Thanks Alba.
This is an important interview, it pretty much spells out what happened last year and confirms what many conjectured. Ilya was too despotic for Yulia, he only frustrated her and eventually they rejected each other. In every comparison he prefers another skater (Sotnikova, Radionova). So far Yulia has been civil enough to say nothing (other than firing him). It appears he had almost nothing to do with her work last year, other than setting the stage for disaster. It's unclear what he did for SL. As usual, he casts himself in a favorable light.
Below are some quotes, each preceded with my take on their significance for Yulia:
skaters should take orders
"For example working with Lipnitskaya it wasn't her I was choreographing for, but Tutberidze, so she would understand what I mean to do, so she would like it. Just that the skater is not always willing to take orders, just like Julia." Q10
however, skaters who take orders may add their own small touches if it improves his choreography:
"The most interesting work was with Elena Radionova. She feels the music so well and sometimes would add some great gestures which integrated perfectly into the programme." Q10
but it seems not taking orders is fine if it wins (plus definition of "introvert" as one who is true to herself):
"In Lipnitskaya's Olympics LP we managed to hit the main point: the right mood. Julia is known for being a bit restrained in her skating. She is an introvert. I.e. she is not trying to capture the audience, which Sotnikova does so well, but as if says `take me the way I am'. It's not an act, it's her. Had Lipnitskaya tried skating the `Schindler's list' playing with the audience the programme would become banal and silly. In our case it caused a huge emotional explosion. It's a very intimate and personal story." Q4
so now it's Yulia's mother who vetoed his masterpiece (remember what Yulia said-- she didn't like skating to his music, and as she tried to skate to it she liked it less and less). This is the most offensive in the history of offensive comments by Ilya. The poorest impression yet of his character. :
"I think Julia should had kept the mood and become one setting the fashion. By the way, the first version of the programme we did, which was never shown, I still think is a kind of a breakthrough. It had a not so known and not an overused music, perhaps a strange and an abstract choreography but am still certain the programme would suit Lipnitskaya. It was about a very closed person who lets herself out into the world and opens completely.
Tutberidze loved the programme, but it was a case when the point of view of Julia's mother who didn't `see' her daughter in the programme had more weight. Julia is very compliant to her mother in that way." Q5
noblesse oblige, again:
"When her coach Eteri Tutberidze called me it was a cry for help. I couldn't decline." Q3
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Also pertinent reflections on choreography vs technique, where he and I are in complete harmony. Based on his priority for choreography I can see why some like his work in general--for those skaters who can take orders. And why he was considered to be choreographer for Yulia.:
"In away yes, though now the programmes became even more primitive - the choreographing freedom is limited by the technical demands." Q1 ...........and..............
"If in singles the choreography might be 20% of the success." Q15
...............and....................
"True, but when there is no life experience, no emotions, when they are not trying to develop and learn something new it turns out quite fast they have nothing to show the audience. Yet it's exactly what we are trying to do on the ice during all our career." last Q
oh the man change his tone so quickly.I'm glad you made it with both of them.
