Because 2 seconds of the beginning and the ending pose are similar? Skating is always pulling from other sources or pulling from skaters of the past themselves. I'm not too bothered by what was presented in this very brief clip (curious to see the whole performance though rather than spliced together segments), and find it interesting that the social media brigade is filling up comments such as 'as if we needed another reason to root against T/M'.It's not an original choreography apparently
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Oksana Baiul's 'Arabian' program is one of my absolute all-time favorites. That is peak commanding skating IMO. But she lifted the entire concept and some of the choreographic ideas from the first minute of a Jill Trenary program, because Trenary was her idol.
Also an ETA- I think if it were any camp other than Eteri & Daniil, sleuths wouldn't be as eager to draw comparisons. But I've seen a lot of skating (as has most of this board, probably), and there are 'outside' influences found everywhere.
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