My special project: Filming the Making of La La Land for Ashley Wagner. I joined @AshWagner2010 & @shaelynnbourne in Toronto. More soon!
^^^ that was a "paparazzi" shot from May 2014.
Looks like she will be sticking with La La Land.
Which part/song from LLL is it?According to her instagram story, Ashley finished the choreography for her free skate today and seems to love it. Looks like she will be sticking with La La Land. http://instagram.com/ashwagner2010
Which part/song from LLL is it?
ETA:Bridgestone has partnered with Nathan Chen (figure skating), Elana Meyers Taylor (bobsled), Amy Purdy (para snowboarding), Evan Strong (para snowboarding) and Ashley Wagner (figure skating) to represent the tiremaker around its first Winter Games.
This was great to watch. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I may even end up liking the music!Jackie Wong of Rocker Skating posted his "Making of Ashley Wagner's La La Land free skate" video with interviews and clips of the choreography process from choosing the music to the final product.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u5Q1Xok1y4
I am not worried, after hearing that she is specifically skating to an edit of "Audition (The Fools Who Dream") and not to a mash-up of the movie songs. I agree that some of the movie songs are jazz-imitative pastiche. But "Fools Who Dream" is very much a musical theater story-song, and that is what the Tony-award winning writers (Pasek and Paul, who also wrote "Dear Evan Hansen" for Broadway) do best. And there is definitely a dramatic, raise the rafters moment in the song, and a character, the never-say-die dreamer, that she can embody (which is what she does best.)Got around to watching La La Land. I'm worried for Ashley now. The music imitates music that was great, but is not great itself. A FS mash-up could undermine our girl. (make note to monitor audience reaction to early-season skates)
Working on footwork in "Hip Hip Chin Chin": https://www.instagram.com/p/BWiMKsAASSM/?taken-by=ashwagner2010&hl=en
Yup.Is Ashley using this again?