2023 Skate America Free Dance - Don’t Miss with Texas

[ilovepaydays]

Chock is better looking than this dress choice.

 

[marbri]

I think that's exactly what it is!

And I am guessing he is the big hand and the little hand of the clock. Hope they create some shapes showing this.

 

[Primorskaya]

I am confused by Chock's dress. She looks good, but I'm confused by it.

I'm confused by their two outfits side by side.

 

[floridaice]

Chock/Bates look tense. I do hope she's okay. I can't stop worrying about her since the fall, though she looked absolutely fine in the RD.

You are right -- hopefully she is just sore from the fall.

 

[~tapdancer~]

Better yet, no touching the boards during the program.

Yes, save it for exhibition skates.

 

[victorskid]

Madison's dress reminds me of a Salvador Dali clock.

well it is a clock with the numbers 1 through 12 going from one shoulder down the front and around the back, clockwise

 

[marbri]

I am full of despair for the people who didn't understand the Ozzies costumes and now don't understand Chock/Bates costumes

 

[floridaice]

Is there some connection between Thus Spake Zarathustra and Elvis that I’m not aware of? Because Smart/Dieck are not the first ice dance team to use it to open an Elvis programme.

Did he use it as intro music in one of his big concerts in the early 70's?

 

[Primorskaya]

Is there some connection between Thus Spake Zarathustra and Elvis that I’m not aware of? Because Smart/Dieck are not the first ice dance team to use it to open an Elvis programme.

Elvis Presley - Also Sprach Zarathustra (Aloha From Hawaii, Live in Honolulu, 1973)

Elvis Presley "Also Sprach Zarathustra" from Aloha From Hawaii, Live in Honolulu, 1973Listen to your favorite Elvis Presley tracks: https://Elvis.lnk.to/top_...

www.youtube.com

There you go. I had no idea, just googled it.

ETA: I still find it weird that more than one team would even think of using this as an opener to an Elvis programme...

 

[marbri]

well it is a clock with the numbers 1 through 12 going from one shoulder down the front and around the back, clockwise

Well thank you Captain Obvious But not all clocks are the melting Salvador Dali clocks.

 

[~tapdancer~]

This music is terrible! I am bored silly.

 

[just tuned in]

G/P struggling, perhaps.

 

[Aceon6]

I don’t hate this for GreenP, but I can’t help wondering what HawBak could do with the same music.

 

[Primorskaya]

Lyrical Snot, #1

 

[tony]

The music reminds me of the Vitamin String Quartet covers that were so popular In the mid 2000s. I saw that Miura/Kihara are using them for their new SP. Oh yay.

The program doesn't have enough highs and lows for me, and I don't think the elements are done in places to have big wow or high-GOE moments. It's all very nice, and the twizzles were good, but it just doesn't stand out or build.

Even the audience Immediate response, in the US, was very tepid.

 

[ilovepaydays]

Green/Parsons: I feel like they are doing some good things, but they aren’t doing them great - especially together.

 

[marbri]

Green/Parsons: a generic af FD trying to be an IAM generic af FD but missing the mark.

 

[Rukia]

G/p much stronger than rd, still some awkwardness here and there. It's a good program. One weird thing is that they tend to stick to the front half of the rink.

 

[Wyliefan]

Oh golly, I would not want to do a handstand lift with him when he's having so many lift struggles. Caroline's a very brave girl.

But that's a good program for them and I like the emotion they bring to it.

 

[Karen-W]

Hey, @Rukia - is that you madly clapping on and on for GreenP at the end of their program?

 

[~tapdancer~]

Did not like that at all. That style seemed totally weird for them.

 

[Frau Muller]

G/P - A very expressive team. I love their interpretation of the opening theme with the bass.

 

[miffy]

Well I’ll probably be the only one but I enjoyed Olivia and Tim more than G/P. This might have been technically good but it seemed kind of zzzzz. I did enjoy their RD though.

 

[VGThuy]

I really enjoyed this as a think piece. It’s intricate and well-choreographed to go with the music with lots of things to pick up. Maybe they need more oomph to sell it to the audience and judges though. It seems like the judges are becoming stingy with them with GOE and PCS.

 

[Sally1214]

I don't know why but I never can get into Green/Parsons. They made everything look effortless and smooth but it just seems like I'm waiting for some high point that never comes.

 

[skategal]

That was okay. I like cello.

Didn’t wow me though (yet?)

 

[just tuned in]

Did not like that at all. That style seemed totally weird for them.

The whole thing looked like work.

 

[peibeck]

Green/Parsons returning to the modern dance aesthetic pleases me, but this needs more milage. Barely being above the super sloppy Spanish team in TES doesn't bode well for them if they can't clean this up and tell their story more clearly.

 

[Rukia]

Hey, @Rukia - is that you madly clapping on and on for GreenP at the end of their program?

Lol twas not me my hands are sore from clapping so I'm having to save it some.

 

[thvu]

I liked the first minute of Green & Parson's FD, but then it just started feeling like it was dragging. Thinking of their probable US rivals, it's definitely not as sophisticated as CarPom's FD, or as audience friendly as ZingKol's FD. The last minute just doesn't work for me.