2025 ISU GPF Ice Dance Free Dance - Have No Fear Shawn’s Not Here

[Tak]

I am also well acquainted with the ocean. I got my very own rowboat when I was 7 and set out to explore Pine Island Bay and the Poquonnock River for three years before I got my first bike. Later in life, I have had a humpback whale break water within 60 feet of our sailboat, flailing his huge pectoral fins. (Terrifying)

Look closely at my avatar - that photo of a submarine was taken from my front porch.

Continuing to the subject of the Whale soundtrack;

I was quite excited to see FB&C's FD at GP France. I wanted to see how the Laurence partnership looked-I had always liked her skating.

However, I fell asleep about 30 seconds into it. When I woke up at 3 a.m, I restarted the Peacock tile and and managed to make it about a minute and a half before falling asleep. When I woke up again at about 6 a.m., same problem. I finally succeeded in watching the whole thing at 10. Man, what a droning, unmemorable piece of "music.".

Watching the program was like watching a 10 km speed skating race to a soundtrack of a a person with mild sleep apnea (obese?) trying to sleep to a white noise track.

The music was so unmemorable that I didn't recognize it when they recycled it for their Gala program-I just thought it was equally boring music as their FD-and was quite surprised to find out it was the exact same.

I had exactly the same reaction. That program seems 10 minutes long to me. I don't like the music, but beyond that I get no emotion from that program at all.

Someone above said ice dance is not just sport, it's also art. ITA with that sentiment. But true art requires feeling, emotion. And that program is just cold for me. There's nothing there beyond the movement.

Someone called it pretentious and I can see what they meant. There's one part in the dance where their faces try to mimic - something - pain? grief? terror? - Im not sure what, but there's no real feeling there - it's like they're just mouthing the words, not really singing - and it just seemed a bit ridiculous to me. It was so overdone it was almost funny actually.

These kinds of programs worked when it was Papadakis/Ciz because they could project genuine feeling and create a mood which drew me in and just kept me enthralled. I was a big fan of their skating. But he doesn't have that with this partner.

 

[marbri]

I knew my first post was too wordy because I seem to have created a debate and the impression I was an expert on the topic of water or something. When I just thought I was being soft explaining why that program hit me in the feels by sharing a snapshot of moments in my life gazing out to sea

I think I should stick to being bitchy instead

 

[Miezekatze]

Does this music have something to do with water?

I actually thought it’s music from the movie „The Whale“ , it’s not?

 

[marbri]

Does this music have something to do with water?

I actually thought it’s music from the movie „The Whale“ , it’s not?

Now you clearly haven't read the whole discussion and are just being lazy now

 

[skategal]

Does this music have something to do with water?

I actually thought it’s music from the movie „The Whale“ , it’s not?

Yes it was composed based on being lost at sea.

I guess the movie used it for the water theme.

I invite all to come spend a winter near the bleak angry North Atlantic if you want to understand this music.

You won’t necessarily like it but you’ll get it.

 

[marbri]

Google is our friend: I present you the soundtrack composed for the movie "The Whale".

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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[Miezekatze]

Now you clearly haven't read the whole discussion and are just being lazy now

That’s totally likely, I just jump into the end of unread threads periodically

Maybe the goal of the music is to make us feel the desperate bleakness of an Olympic ice dance season.

 

[marbri]

That’s totally likely, I just jump into the end of unread threads periodically

Maybe the goal of the music is to make us feel the desperate bleakness of an Olympic ice dance season.

No. That was Shawn Rettstatt.

 

[MacMadame]

I like to imagine that many things are chocolate.

As one does.

But "my oceans" wasn't referring to all the oceans and bodies of water in the world

"My" oceans are the Jersey Shore, and the Pacific from the POV of Hawaii, San Diego and the SF Bay Area. All 3 of those places have very different Pacific Oceans.

I have sailed in the waters off Long Island. I had never sailed before and the experienced sailors almost capsized us. At night.

On my "swim with wild dolphins" boat ride, we came right up on a momma humpback whale and her baby. It was awesome.

I really do love water.

I will watch The Whale program at Euros and see if I feel differently about it. It could happen.

I realized much later that when it was first brought up that they were making the shapes of water, that I should have said, "Oh, so they do think that The Whale is a movie about whales!"

 

[marbri]

As one does.

"My" oceans are the Jersey Shore, and the Pacific from the POV of Hawaii, San Diego and the SF Bay Area. All 3 of those places have very different Pacific Oceans.

I have sailed in the waters off Long Island. I had never sailed before and the experienced sailors almost capsized us. At night.

On my "swim with wild dolphins" boat ride, we came right up on a momma humpback whale and her baby. It was awesome.

I really do love water.

I will watch The Whale program at Euros and see if I feel differently about it. It could happen.

I realized much later that when it was first brought up that they were making the shapes of water, that I should have said, "Oh, so they do think that The Whale is a movie about whales!"

Oh I know you do, unless I am having a senior moment and it isn't you who does all sorts of open water swimming I kind of admire those who can do that. I love swimming, I am at my most peaceful floating in an outdoor pool alone with birds chirping nearby, but open water kind of terrifies me. I have this really odd relationship with water that would take hours and a therapist to go over

 

[Aussie Willy]

Oh I know you do, unless I am having a senior moment and it isn't you who does all sorts of open water swimming I kind of admire those who can do that. I love swimming, I am at my most peaceful floating in an outdoor pool alone with birds chirping nearby, but open water kind of terrifies me. I have this really odd relationship with water that would take hours and a therapist to go over

Just imagine that ice is frozen water.

 

[DORISPULASKI]

As one does.

"My" oceans are the Jersey Shore, and the Pacific from the POV of Hawaii, San Diego and the SF Bay Area. All 3 of those places have very different Pacific Oceans.

I have sailed in the waters off Long Island. I had never sailed before and the experienced sailors almost capsized us. At night.

Easy to do, especially in The Race off Fisher's Island.


The water in the area from Point Judith Rhode Island, near Fisher's Island & Long Island up to the Connecticut River has some very tricky spots indeed. My dad said his great uncle, Capt. John O. Spicer, used to say the only comparable risky sections for him was the Malacca Strait- a striking comment from a man who discovered the Spicer Islands in Hudson Bay and had a whaling station on Baffin Island

On my "swim with wild dolphins" boat ride, we came right up on a momma humpback whale and her baby. It was awesome.

Our encounter was just scary.

I really do love water.

I will watch The Whale program at Euros and see if I feel differently about it. It could happen.

I realized much later that when it was first brought up that they were making the shapes of water, that I should have said, "Oh, so they do think that The Whale is a movie about whales!"

I love water too.

But if FB/C loved it, they could have used Le Mer by Debussy instead of this very dreary and boring soundtrack.

 

[marbri]

Just imagine that ice is frozen water.

I mean does one have to imagine that, isn't that a fact

 

[marbri]

But if FB/C loved it, they could have used Le Mer by Debussy instead of this very dreary and boring soundtrack.

Now that would have been boring

 

[PRlady]

I love water too.

But if FB/C loved it, they could have used Le Mer by Debussy instead of this very dreary and boring soundtrack.

I love La Mer but even the Water song from the Moen faucet commercials would be more interesting than this music.

 

[purple skates]

I’m Chock/Bates all the way (I have to be - I skated on the same ice as Bates when he was in middle school), but I’ve really enjoyed FB/C’s free dance both times I’ve seen it. Including the music. Now, their RD is another story.

 

[marbri]

Some of you are clearly taking this H2O thing too literally.