2017-2018 Program Music and Choreographers

[arakwafan2006]

Chock can bring the a type of appeal that isn't really common among her current competitors (Hubbell and Virtue would be the exceptions I guess) but the point is that Chock can seduce an entire arena, and while Imagine is a fine piece of music I just don't think that it's what will give them the highest chance of being among the top 3 in dance once the Olympics rolls around.

Chock is not to ice dance with Cizeron is, especially since her partner is nowhere near as dynamic. Also, technically, she's not so superior that you just are blown away by her like say Oksana Grishuk. I believe that Shpilband's lack of a vision for this team is the problem. Right away, you saw the vision for Virtue and Moir when they returned. Everyone knows what pap/ciz are good at. The Italians have a style. Weaver and Poje have one too. Madison and Evan in my mind have not overcome looking like a pair team trying to dance. I can't get on board

 

[mollymgr]

What are skating Reed/Ambrulevicius? I do not recognize the music, but it does not sound Latin at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-9Fi8GQemE

I agree, it doesn't sound Latin like and Soundhound can't tell what any of it is either.

 

[nuge]

. Madison and Evan in my mind have not overcome looking like a pair team trying to dance. I can't get on board

I have the same opinion.Also C/Buckland and the young French team L/LG.The height difference makes them look like pair teams.The way they are swung around in the lifts

 

[Jeschke]

What are skating Reed/Ambrulevicius? I do not recognize the music, but it does not sound Latin at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-9Fi8GQemE

I agree, it doesn't sound Latin like and Soundhound can't tell what any of it is either.

Sounds like a porny version/cover of Avicii's 'Addicted to you'.

 

[Bellanca]

Sounds like a porny version/cover of Avicii's 'Addicted to you'.

Oh boy... Yeah Some of the music selections this season are a bit ... ...

 

[arakwafan2006]

I have the same opinion.Also C/Buckland and the young French team L/LG.The height difference makes them look like pair teams.The way they are swung around in the lifts

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!! i was going to say Penny and Nick as well but didn't want to get too off topic. The height difference is not blended. Meryl and Charlie managed to blend their height difference but it was not that drastic. Also, Buckland is not SO far behind his lady in terms of skills, asthetics and general attraction. Evan's posture and shallow range of emotion bother me. Last season was not his season in terms of dealing with pressure.

Igor teaches the old school over the top expression for a lady where the acting is bad. I contrast that to Gabriella Papadakis's expression in the Lindy Hop program that was not their strongest rhythym. Her expression looked like she was dancing while no one was watching while being happy which turns out to be just fine for the dance. Madison's Bad to the Bone expression....

 

[kwanfan1818]

I thought P/C's Lindy Hop program was one of the most underrated programs last season.

 

[barbarafan]

I thought P/C's Lindy Hop program was one of the most underrated programs last season.

I loved it...It was just very very tricky to skate clean......but Kudos to them for taking it on..

 

[Wyliefan]

I thought P/C's Lindy Hop program was one of the most underrated programs last season.

Agreed!

 

[taz'smum]

I thought P/C's Lindy Hop program was one of the most underrated programs last season.

I totally agree, they really tried something different and did it extremely well.

 

[Kecasyl]

Chock is not to ice dance with Cizeron is, especially since her partner is nowhere near as dynamic. Also, technically, she's not so superior that you just are blown away by her like say Oksana Grishuk. I believe that Shpilband's lack of a vision for this team is the problem. Right away, you saw the vision for Virtue and Moir when they returned. Everyone knows what pap/ciz are good at. The Italians have a style. Weaver and Poje have one too. Madison and Evan in my mind have not overcome looking like a pair team trying to dance. I can't get on board

The problem with this is that Christopher Dean has been doing their choreography (exception being Bad To the Bone SD last year which was Rohene Ward). So Shpilband doesn't have much to say in it when it comes to Dean.

 

[chapis]

The problem with this is that Christopher Dean has been doing their choreography (exception being Bad To the Bone SD last year which was Rohene Ward). So Shpilband doesn't have much to say in it when it comes to Dean.

So Igor did not make any changes to those programs?

 

[Debbie S]

So Igor did not make any changes to those programs?

In interviews, it was stated that Igor made some changes to the FD before Nats in response to judge/official feedback. From what I could tell via social media posts, it looked like Rohene visited their rink a few times during the season, so it's likely the changes in the SD were made by him.

 

[chameleonster]

http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2017/01/16/213650352/the-inside-edge-fenway-park-a-skaters-haven

Ward will go straight from Boston to Kansas City, where several skaters for whom he has choreographed will be competing this week at the 2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, including three dance teams. Two years ago, Ward choreographed a dance program for Madison Chock and Evan Bates, and this season he has spent a week each month working with Igor Shpilband's teams.

"It's like working with performers!" he said. "They skate full-out, 100 percent all the time, so it's not about, so much, the technical stuff."

It seems that Rohene has become a part of Igor's team, he also worked with them this summer as well.

 

[arakwafan2006]

The problem with this is that Christopher Dean has been doing their choreography (exception being Bad To the Bone SD last year which was Rohene Ward). So Shpilband doesn't have much to say in it when it comes to Dean.

what? Are you saying that you don't think Igor adjusts it in Novi? That's what you typed basically. What did you mean?

 

[arakwafan2006]

So Igor did not make any changes to those programs?

exactly. He clearly did.

 

[chapis]

exactly. He clearly did.

How do you know? Though I remember that he modified totally their Rachmaninov program, when Najarro was the choreographer.

 

[Karpenko]

Are we seriously still talking about Chock & Bates in here?

 

[Alilou]

I don't think this has been entered yet - Zahorski and Guerreiro FD will be to a Muse medley choreographed by Peter Tchernyshev - according to an article in the latest International Figure Skating magazine.

 

[Aerobicidal]

I have exclusive scoop! Chock and Bates were so inspired by Rippon's performance of "Diamonds" that they hired him to record his own new lyrics to "Imagine" to use in their Free Dance.

Imagine ‘80s movies
Hot girl and nerdy man
Unlikely romance
Like coach’s deep brown tan
Imagine all the twizzles waiting to be blown

Imagine all the o-face
Fire engine red lipstick
PCS scores gigantic
Not due to politik
Imagine Shibutanis falling left and right, you

You may think it’s generic
Nothing behind big tricks
But just wait ’til you hear our
Hot funky dubstep remix

Team Montreal should watch out
Thinking one-two’s locked up
The French are weak and godless
Tessa will be knocked up
Imagine Scott’s complainin’, when we get the gold, you

You may say Maddy’s facials
With this music is loco
But when we win in PyeongChang
You’ll be screamin’ like Yoko
And the sport will be redeemed

 

[casken]

I don't think this has been entered yet - Zahorski and Guerreiro FD will be to a Muse medley

Well, a big ol' "meh" to that news.

 

[Alilou]

I have exclusive scoop! Chock and Bates were so inspired by Rippon's performance of "Diamonds" that they hired him to record his own new lyrics to "Imagine" to use in their Free Dance.

Imagine ‘80s movies . . . . . . .

You are so brilliant!

 

[Jeschke]

Nicole Schott
Short program 'Nella Fantasia' by Jackie Evancho
Free skate 'Schindler's List'
Choreo by Huth, Gusmeroli, Sinycin

(Source http://www.goldenskate.com/2017/08/nicole-schott/)

Slay Schott, all the way!

 

[Doggygirl]

I have exclusive scoop! Chock and Bates were so inspired by Rippon's performance of "Diamonds" that they hired him to record his own new lyrics to "Imagine" to use in their Free Dance.

Imagine ‘80s movies

....
And the sport will be redeemed

Well, I think I just got busted doing personal stuff at work due to LOL!!!

 

[SmallFairy]

Anne Line Gjersem's short program is: "Angel By The Wings" -Sia

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXxPWdXgZ5G/?taken-by=annelinegjersem

 

[petro]

I may have just totally missed an announcement, but has Mariah Bell announced her programs for the upcoming season? I feel like I've seen most of the other US ladies...

 

[Sylvia]

Mariah Bell's programs showed up in her updated Team USA profile: http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/profile/mariah_bell
SP: Across the Universe
FS: Music from the West Side Story soundtrack by the Original Broadway Cast

ETA:

Haven Denney/Brandon Frazier had announced their FS music back in June:
https://www.facebook.com/FSOnline/posts/10155401139388540
Their SP music has since appeared in their Team USA profile:
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/denney_frazier
SP Music: "All of Me" by John Legend
FS Music: "Who Wants to Live Forever" by Queen

ETA #2:

Elizabet Tursynbaeva debuted her SP to a violin version of Carmen at Skate Ontario in Thornhill tonight.

 

[seabm7]

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[aftershocks]

For fun, go to YouTube and look up "Imagine John Lennon remix"... Remixes with Nas, dubstep, Muzak... The possibilities are endless!

Reminds me of some vintage Johnny skating to vintage John: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRUDucbDTZQ
Beautiful skating; amazing precision, balance and positions on jumps and other elements. Imagine that!

Dubstep remix with John & Yoko visuals... Ahhh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shf8qEOKkzQ

Hip hop remix with Eminem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm7z_bKL4c8

Sounds like he did, according to Jackie Wong.

https://twitter.com/rockerskating/status/895273869166223360

I can't imagine skating to my own singing. I think it'd freak me out. But if he can, more power to him!

Yep, cool!

"Imagine there's no Heaven," which presupposes there is a Heaven, which is not a supposition I'm predisposed to imagine.

Hmmm, apparently you can't use your imagination when it comes to heaven above or hell below us. For you heaven is missing not only an angel, but altogether missing it seems.

 

[Dobre]

So Tursynbaeva & Daleman are both doing Carmen short programs?

Unusual for two ladies that share one of their coaches, is it not? I'm assuming, in this case, different music from Carmen, but still unusual. Unless I've missed something?

The two ladies I was most looking forward to hearing program announcements for--Karen & Elizabet--are both skating to Carmen. I suppose this says something about the type of ladies singles performers I like. Witt, Cohen, Sotnikova, Chen, Tursynbaeva. Or perhaps the entire world just skates to Carmen.