Nathan Chen Fan Thread #2

[sk9tingfan]

My letter to the editor of the New York Times. Not one single mention of the World Figure Skating Championships either.

Dear Editor,

As a longtime sports fan, but especially figure skating, I was appalled to find not one mention of the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships in the New York Times. I was even more disturbed that there was not one mention given to the astounding comeback performance given by Nathan Chen in the free skate to win his & more than 31 points against the two time Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu. It was an astounding display of both technical and athletic prowess.

Perhaps you need to see it with your own eyes and give credit.

Nathan CHEN USA Free Skate 2021 Worlds BBC Commentary - YouTube

 

[olympic]

Nathan Chen w/ an OGM will achieve huge sports hero status. It deserves a mention in the news.

ETA - JPN Broadcast of Nathan's LP at Worlds 2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkfnqpEr2AM

It's cool because they of course give you a glimpse of Yuma and Yuzu just after Nathan's skate. FTR, they look non-plussed

 

[Firedancer]

New interview with Nathan discussing worlds and WTT:
https://usfigureskatingfanzone.com/...tion-and-excitement-to-world-team-trophy.aspx

 

[Sylvia]

Not surprisingly, Nathan opened his Rocketman exhibition program (overnight in Osaka) with the 4T+1Eu+3F combo that he missed in his WTT free skate : https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNzlFRhJEb2/

His encore was part of his Caravan SP from last season: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CNzppvfpQO4/

 

[Rukia]

I forgot how much I love Caravan. Man I can't wait to see what he picks for the next season. He and his team always surprise me.

 

[sk9tingfan]

I forgot how much I love Caravan. Man I can't wait to see what he picks for the next season. He and his team always surprise me.

ITA! I should forward this to Johnny Weir who constantly says that Nathan is cold and is not a performer. How quickly he forgets Nathan's hot performances from Caravan and Rocketman!

 

[A.H.Black]

http://www.globetrottingbyphilipher...e-nathan-chen-became-a-mirror-for-glass-music

Haven't seen this posted yet. Phil Hersh on Nathan's free program to Philip Glass music. It includes a clip of Nathan playing parts of the music on the piano.

 

[Sylvia]

https://twitter.com/philipglass/status/1383918037753942019

 

[Firedancer]

https://twitter.com/philipglass/status/1383918037753942019

Nathan replied to this in his Instagram story.

 

[Wyliefan]

I'm glad he saw it, since Glass tagged the wrong Nathan Chen. Still, what a great honor for Nathan.

 

[Sylvia]

I'm glad he saw it, since Glass tagged the wrong Nathan Chen. Still, what a great honor for Nathan.

At least the correct Nathan was tagged in Glass's IG post (that's probably why he saw it and replied via IG story): https://www.instagram.com/p/CN02ZHkAjRZ/

"NathanChen" on Twitter probably is used to being wrongly tagged.

 

[Sylvia]

CBC video of Patrick Chan "on the passing the torch question right after the [2018] Olympics free skate."

https://twitter.com/jasmine_ssutu/status/1384348539820650497

 

[Firedancer]

CBC video of Patrick Chan "on the passing the torch question right after the [2018] Olympics free skate."

https://twitter.com/jasmine_ssutu/status/1384348539820650497

Love this! Thanks for posting!

 

[Frau Muller]

http://www.globetrottingbyphilipher...e-nathan-chen-became-a-mirror-for-glass-music

Haven't seen this posted yet. Phil Hersh on Nathan's free program to Philip Glass music. It includes a clip of Nathan playing parts of the music on the piano.

For admirers of BOTH Nathan Chen & Philip Glass, the Dutch National Ballet’s free stream of a complete new ballet to Glass’ METAMORPHOSIS - which includes the main tunes in Nathan’s 2021 free skate - may be of interest. The ballet premieres tomorrow, 29 April, at 20:15 CET (2:15pm eastern US) via DNB’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6ru0sy_mpgJ9boWJS59fg

Info about the ballet, dancers & choreographer (a fave of mine ) is here:

METAMORPHOSIS | Nationale Opera & Ballet

Based on classical ballet technique, the British choreographer David Dawson creates contemporary, virtuoso and often emotionally charged works of art that endear him to the press, the public and leading ballet companies all over the world. On April 29, in celebration of International Dance Day...

www.operaballet.nl

Happy International Dance Day!

 

[Sylvia]

March 31 article:

Tales of New York City Told From American Greats

David Yurman's new campaign pays tribute to the Big Apple.

www.papermag.com

New York has always been a source of inspiration for the fashion industry, but not quite to the degree as it has in the past 12 months. Having endured the some of the worst of the pandemic's effects, the city has seen tributes pour in from virtually all of New York's designers in their collections.
Jewelry brand David Yurman is no exception — after all, it was founded in New York over 30 years ago by its sculptor namesake and his painter and ceramicist wife Sybil. To celebrate the city it calls home, the company enlisted various American greats from different fields to share personal stories of what New York means to them.

Photo of Nathan posted on DavidYurmanMen's Instagram account last week: https://www.instagram.com/p/CN-JAVzJ3g_/
Nathan shared 2 photos on his account (photos taken by Kevin Wu): https://www.instagram.com/p/CN_FrccLjj2/

 

[A.H.Black]

Jewelry! Lot's of Jewelry!

 

[Frau Muller]

Teaser of DNB’s Metamorphosis Ballet, filmed at dress rehearsal:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157590758132504&id=76031842503

Full 37-min Ballet is at the top of this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW6ru0sy_mpgJ9boWJS59fg

Available for six months (free)

 

[Sylvia]

Nathan’s 2020-21 FS to a Philip Glass medley opens with “Metamorphosis Two” which is the section from 8:30 to 16:30 in the Dutch National Ballet’s 4/29 video (channel is linked in Frau Muller’s 2 posts above).

Nathan was interviewed on fellow Yale student RJ Kranz’s “The 64 Pack” podcast (they met in a statistics class) that was uploaded on May 3:

The 64 Pack with RJ Kranz

Colorful conversations with exceptional people || Each episode's title is the color that each new guest wants to add to the podcast's unique 64 pack of crayons

www.buzzsprout.com

(During the podcast Nathan mentioned he had been rejected by Harvard, which I didn’t know before. )

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY (May 5) to Nathan! Mika Matsuda tweeted her celebratory drawing: https://twitter.com/nigaoe877/status/1389646287142735874?s=21

 

[CassAgain]

Happy birthday, Nathan!

 

[mjb52]

Happy birthday!

 

[sk9tingfan]

Nathan’s 2020-21 FS to a Philip Glass medley opens with “Metamorphosis Two” which is the section from 8:30 to 16:30 in the Dutch National Ballet’s 4/29 video (channel is linked in Frau Muller’s 2 posts above).

Nathan was interviewed on fellow Yale student RJ Kranz’s “The 64 Pack” podcast (they met in a statistics class) that was uploaded on May 3:

The 64 Pack with RJ Kranz

Colorful conversations with exceptional people || Each episode's title is the color that each new guest wants to add to the podcast's unique 64 pack of crayons

www.buzzsprout.com

(During the podcast Nathan mentioned he had been rejected by Harvard, which I didn’t know before. )

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY (May 5) to Nathan! Mika Matsuda tweeted her celebratory drawing: https://twitter.com/nigaoe877/status/1389646287142735874?s=21

I cannot believe that he was rejected by Harvard! Well, Harvard's lack of judgment was Yale's gift from so many perspectives.

 

[A.H.Black]

During the podcast Nathan mentioned he had been rejected by Harvard, which I didn’t know before.

Harvard isn't usually that myopic when it comes to skaters. Harvard's loss is Yale's gain. Then again, Dick Button originally was going to go to Yale, but they wouldn't/couldn't be flexible with his schedule. Harvard was flexible. Of course that was in the era when they took the "boat" to Worlds and Europeans and Olympics (US skaters could compete in Europeans at that time).

 

[jlai]

actually listening to the audio, it is clear that both interviewer and interviewee got accepted by Yale but got rejected at another similar school. Maybe these schools don't want to accept students that may prefer another school, and that in turn lowers their acceptance rates. (Which makes them look choosier than they are?) Or something like that. They certainly are not lacking in applicants, and can pick and choose however they want

 

[Firedancer]

Happy Birthday Nathan!

 

[Sylvia]

Cute clip from the rink today via Team Raf's Instagram stories: https://twitter.com/NathanChenJP/status/1390060362813218816

 

[Sylvia]

Nathan's tribute to his mom on Mother's Day: https://www.instagram.com/p/COq-2jOLZX7/

This weekend my mother and I took the trusty ol’ Prius up to my sisters in NorCal for the first time in over a year (we all got vaccinated!). The drive made me reminisce on the thousands of miles and countless hours we’ve spent driving between Utah and California for my skating; we made all these trips in this very car! It made me emotional to think of how tirelessly she supported me in my skating career, not once complaining that the drive was too long or too hard. Without her support, I never would have made it to where I am now. So, thank you mom for everything you’ve done for me and happy Mother’s Day to the best mom out there

ETA that posts #3 & 4 provide more context for Nathan's & his mom's long car trips when he was young: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/threads/konovs-interview-with-arutunian.108279/#post-5998208

 

[giselle23]

actually listening to the audio, it is clear that both interviewer and interviewee got accepted by Yale but got rejected at another similar school. Maybe these schools don't want to accept students that may prefer another school, and that in turn lowers their acceptance rates. (Which makes them look choosier than they are?) Or something like that. They certainly are not lacking in applicants, and can pick and choose however they want

True. There are many students with the same outstanding qualifications applying to these schools. To a certain extent, it is like a lottery, but with attempts to balance things like male-to-female, East/West Coast to rest of the country, and taking into account certain "plus" factors. Nathan certainly had a plus factor and I think a school would have been short-sighted not to accept him, but these are subjective judgments by people who may not have appreciated his accomplishments.

 

[Sylvia]

Coach Ravi Walia shared video of Nathan talking to his students - it's in 6 parts on his Instagram ("It was so inspiring and he gave them so much great advice"): https://www.instagram.com/p/CPd9bcErc-H/

Nathan won PSA's Gustave Lussi EDI award for the second time - more info in this GSD thread (he shows up after the 41-minute mark of the awards video): https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...d-winners-u-s-open-pro-champs-results.108348/

ETA that his 2018 Olympics free skate was uploaded to the Olympics YT channel today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7NQ2FKVcss

Also found his 2021 Worlds FS with CBC commentary by Kurt Browning & Carol Lane (watch while you can?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iUzd5dUNRM

 

[Sylvia]

Essay by Mikhail Lopatin (English translation: The Green Manuela on Twitter) that was published in his "Skating to music" blog on April 11:

The metamorphosis of Nathan Chen

If one were to choose the most significant performance of these past world championships, the one that would not only reflect the competition itself, but also the broader context of the state of fi…

skating-to-music.blog

If one were to choose the most significant performance of these past world championships, the one that would not only reflect the competition itself, but also the broader context of the state of figure skating today, the main contender, no doubt, would be Nathan Chen’s free skate. The technical difficulty paired with the surgical precision of execution, the modern music interpreted by the modern choreography, the emotional restraint and level-headedness — that dam that bursts at the end with a violent whirlwind of emotions — all these are features both of modern figure skating and more generally the world we live in today. [...]
Much has been and will be said about the technical side of this free skate. But today I would like to talk about the music, the feelings, about the aesthetics of this program by Shae-Lynn Bourne, about its coordinate system. About the reality in which we all found ourselves after watching Nathan’s performance.

 

[sk9tingfan]

Essay by Mikhail Lopatin (English translation: The Green Manuela on Twitter) that was published in his "Skating to music" blog on April 11:

The metamorphosis of Nathan Chen

If one were to choose the most significant performance of these past world championships, the one that would not only reflect the competition itself, but also the broader context of the state of fi…

skating-to-music.blog

Thank you for posting this!