Team Champéry and recent interviews with Stéphane Lambiel

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The Skating School of Switzerland will hold a Showcase exhibition on August 1 (skaters selected from their summer camp) that will be open to the public with safety measures (free but registration for tickets required)
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"Live" tweets from today's Showcase (scroll down): https://twitter.com/nuriachai/status/1289605968964149248
Excerpts from the thread:
Stephané just stepped on the ice, did a short program, a triple flip and two double axels. He skated to the music of Conan Gray - Heather
Alexia just performed to Alicia Keys - Never felt this way and Fallin' and I got chills. Alexia was always a performer but that was just wow! It seemed like an exhibition program so I am hoping she will keep it!
Koshiro's 3 Axel looked great, Rika is on fire too. She just did a 2 Axel 3 Sal and a 3flip-3toe
He [Shimada] did one quad sal and two quad toes! Landed two of them (albeit very shaky) and had to step out of the last. But they looked good!
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Rika Kihira skated to Beyoncé - eta: "Spirit" (From Disney's The Lion King) which was her exhibition program last season.

Twitter thread, part 2: https://twitter.com/nuriachai/status/1289639504660148225
Deniss Vasiljevs skated to "a romeo and juliet soundtrack" (short or long?).
Koshiro Shimada skated his long program to "Rhapsody on a theme of paganini." ... "He did good and only had to step out of the second quad toe."
After the last group was done, Stéphane took to the ice! He skated to an orchestral version of Dermot Kennedy - Lost. It was beautiful and haunting, I think it was a very emotional piece for him. In the ending sequence, he covered his head with a veil...
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Re-posting this from the OES news thread on June 24:
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Paganini's new programs:

SP: "Caught out in the Rain" by Beth Hart, choreo. by Salome Brunner
FS: "drama" (to be revealed later), choreo. by Lambiel
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Alexia Paganini article by @Eislauffan:
www.goldenskate.com

Switzerland’s Paganini sets new goals after coaching change

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the lives of many people and Switzerland’s Alexia Paganini is no exception. In fact, the situation ultimately led to a coaching change for the 18-year-old […]
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Excerpt re. her FS program:
The new long program Lambiel did for Paganini has a Spanish theme and is set to the soundtrack from Hable con ella by Alberto Iglesias and to Le di a la caza alcance by Estrella Morente and Michael Nyman. Lambiel proposed the first song while Paganini found the second song.
“In the first part I’m just dancing on my own, in the Spanish part,” the skater explained. “I’m like reaching for him, a man, and then we’re kind of having a bit of a moment together. In the second part, we are separate and I’m a bit angry at him. I’m suffering because I miss him, but at the same time, I’m angry at him. It’s not so much a story, it’s more about showing specific emotions throughout the program.” she added.
Paganini feels that this program helps her to look sharper and more refined. She feels that it is very important that each movement is polished.
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Deniss Vasiļjevs article by @Eislauffan:
https://www.goldenskate.com/2020/08/deniss-vasiljevs-hopes-to-show-different-side-for-2020-21/

Coach Stephane Lambiel feels that both routines are “completely unexpected.” The new free skate is set to music from the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev, and Vasiljevs is excited about having the opportunity to show a different side in a “different emotional setting.” The skater worked with a Ukrainian prima ballerina who was a principal dancer at Béjart for this program.

“It’s dramatic, but it is very beautiful and classical and aesthetic,” Lambiel revealed. “There is this magic of Russian skating in Deniss. He also has this craziness and you can see that.”

Vasiljevs wants to keep the music for the new Short Program under wraps at this time but shared that the music is a composition from a Latvian violinist.
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Ballerina's name is Kateryna Shalkina, she works with 3S team (don't know how regularly):

3S announced that Yoann Deslot joined the school as a full-time coach:

I don't see Anna and Robert on the recent photos so I wonder if they still continue or two new coaches came instead of them. :confused:

Also, we will have some interviews from Champéry on Absolute Skating, so stay tuned. ;)
https://twitter.com/absoluteskating/status/1294048555154518016
 
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Alexia Paganini: "I love the positivity of my new team"
http://absoluteskating.com/interviews/2020alexiapaganini.html

Also, photos from Dreitannen-Cup, the first among Swiss Cup events (qualifiers for nationals), Swiss and not only Swiss students from the Skating School took part in it:
http://absoluteskating.com/photogallery/2020dreitannencup.html

Also, Skating Federation of Island asked us to use the photos for their long post about Ísold Fönn Vilhjálmsdóttir who is now training in Champéry:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFiDrFJgS8D/

Alexia and Deniss are competing at Nebelhorn Trophy this weekend.
 
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Gold and silver for the Skating School at Nebelhorn, great result:

Based on recent news about GP events 3S team will be represented really well in Grenoble: Deniss, Koshiro, Shoma, Alexia. And it looks like Rika is staying in Europe too, although I didn't see any "official announcement" about her moving to train with Stephane.
Ladies: https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...es-33/entries-5/25027-ladies-assignments/file
Men: https://isu.org/docman-documents-li...files-33/entries-5/25026-men-assignments/file
 
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Local TV news story on Alexia Paganini who's at home with her family in Greenwich, CT right now:
connecticut.news12.com

Greenwich figure skater prepares for Olympics

News 12's Suzanne Goldklang talks to figure skater Alexia Paganini, an Olympian and 3-time Swiss National Champion from Greenwich, about how she is training for the Olympics.
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ETA Alexia's quotes from the end of the segment: "We definitely plan to work on my quad and work on my Axel and see where it goes. I'm really just visualizing how hard I'm going to train for the qualifiers [Nebelhorn, etc.] right now."

Koshiro Shimada skated in his sponsor Kinoshita Group's "Bloom on Ice" show last week in Kyoto (photo: https://twitter.com/JUJUJU616893/status/1386514402375913479) and currently is performing with the Stars on Ice cast in Hachinohe.
 
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New 23-minute interview with Lambiel (uploaded August 11, 2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY-FwBJdxaQ
Golden Skate catches up with 2006 Olympic silver medalist Stéphane Lambiel in Champéry, Switzerland. The renowned coach and choreographer talks about his three students: Shoma Uno, Deniss Vasiļjevs and Koshiro Shimada, as well as his programs for 2022 Fantasy on Ice!
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Deniss Vasiljevs (August 9):
www.goldenskate.com

Latvia's Deniss Vasiljevs strives for 'excellence'

Nearly every morning when Latvia's Deniss Vasiljevs wakes up at home in Champéry, Switzerland, he has a clear view on the Dents du Midi, the tall, sharp
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Koshiro Shimada (August 3):
www.goldenskate.com

Japan's Koshiro Shimada inspired by Yuzuru Hanyu

Golden Skate catches up with Japan's Koshiro Shimada who was assigned his first Grand Prix event in Sheffield, Great Britain, this fall! The 20-year-old
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Anything GOEs' Anna Keller's interview with Stéphane Lambiel (thanks, Claire) at the 2022 Ondrej Nepela Memorial Trophy in Bratislava (Oct. 26, 2022):
anythinggoe.com

A Conversation with Stéphane Lambiel - Anything GOEs

Two-time world champion Stéphane Lambiel reached a milestone last year, when his student Shoma Uno also succeeded in becoming a world champion. Like Shoma, Stéphane is not resting on his laurels, but pushing himself and his students to keep innovating and improving. His passionate love for...
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Re-posting here from Shoma's fan thread:
Uno Shoma and coach Stéphane Lambiel bring a new approach to the ice: 'The idea is to go season by season'
The duo teamed up in 2019 and Uno won two Olympic medals and a world title last season. They spoke exclusively to Olympics.com about how Uno is approaching the new Olympic quad.
By Nick McCarvel (Nov. 15, 2022): https://olympics.com/en/news/uno-shoma-stephane-lambiel-figure-skating-olympic-quad-interview-2022
 
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@reut's "Visit to the Gates of the Sun" last week - photos taken in Champéry, Switzerland (published March 16, 2023):
http://absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=reports&id=2023skatingschool
"Enjoy this photo gallery which illustrates the stories in the text, full album to be published during the off season."

Vivien Papp is there now - photos she shared yesterday of her working with Lambiel & Dolfini ("Thank you that I could be the part of the team, and the everyday work!"): https://www.instagram.com/p/CpzKo1bN8F_/
 
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Very interesting talk with Christopher Trevisan who is the director of the Skating School of Switzerland, and also manager and agent for Stéphane Lambiel and Deniss Vasiljevs:
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Christopher Trevisan - Pinecast

Episode Notes My guest today is Christopher Trevisan. Chris is the Director of the Skating School of Switzerland, where he works alongside head coach Stéphane Lambiel and his students, aka Team Champéry. In 2019, the Skating School of Switzerland became
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