Skating to Schindler's List

[Vash01]

It has been 25 years since the movie Schindler's List was released. In its honor here are some of the well known skates performed to this music.

Julia Lipnitskaya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke0iusvydl8


Paul Wylie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAgZkY6vAyY


Irina Slutskaya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUFOWRuRW0


Joshua Farris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypr3CLV5GcI


Katarina Witt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESp-O0EwRY


Savchenko-Szolkowy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbsYQo3b2Qc

I am sure there are others.

 

[Jeschke]

Ilinykh/Katsalapov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KpWW6IuK4Q

 

[misskarne]

Andrew Dodds - https://youtu.be/UhM35USezw4?t=2027

 

[Jeschke]

Andrew Dodds - https://youtu.be/UhM35USezw4?t=2027

I was too posting Schott after the big names above.
But you opened the door with Dodds

Nicole Schott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSbMvf3RGdU

 

[Spun Silver]

Guignard/Fabbri's 2015-2016 FD made me a fan. Sorry, can't link it now.

 

[misskarne]

I was too posting Schott after the big names above.
But you opened the door with Dodds

Well, I figure it shouldn't matter if it's a big name skater or not - if it's beautiful, it's still beautiful regardless. And Andrew remains our silver medallist and (according to the AusNats judges, and I think they got it right) this free skate outscored Brendan's on PCS.

 

[Erin]

Not their best performance of it, but Menzies & Bombardier. They skated it much better at 1997 Skate Canada but that’s not on YouTube.

Another favourite (I would do a couple more but I am getting impatient with linking on my phone):
Vanessa Giunchi

 

[SmallFairy]

Giunchi?

And of course, Galina Maniachenko:
https://youtu.be/HvosMT3jhW0.

@alchemy void

 

[AxelAnnie]

I think Julia is definitive.

Interview with Spielberg

One of the surprising things in the interview is that Spielberg says he didn’t expect the movie to be a hit. Perhaps that’s understandable in some regard. It’s a 3 hour and 16 minute black-and-white movie about the Holocaust, and that has never translated to box office success. And yet I think Spielberg approached the film with a commercial eye, not trying to soften the Holocaust, but rather using his pedigree combined with a simple narrative (the transformation of Oskar Schindler from cold-hearted industrialist to savior of over 1,000 Jews) to make something far more accessible about the Holocaust than something like the 9.5-hour documentary Shoah.

I remember sitting in the theatre at the end of the movie with tears streaming. Totally quiet in the theatre, and all I wanted to do was say "Thank you Mr. Spielberg". You have created a miracle.

 

[screech]

I like Roman Sadovsky's FP this year, where he has a beautiful/haunting arrangement of Schindler's List mixed with Prelude in C-Sharp Minor

 

[Angela-Fan]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-X4L_-QBs
Jonathan Cassar

 

[MsZem]

Schindler's List programs need to go away. I'm really over skaters who want a crutch to convey seriousness and think it allows them to make some kind of profound statement (or trying some shock value crap like I/K did). I am also over Galit Chait forcing it on every Israeli skater in existence.

I did like Jonathan Cassar's program, though.

 

[Vash01]

Schindler's List programs need to go away. I'm really over skaters who want a crutch to convey seriousness and think it allows them to make some kind of profound statement (or trying some shock value crap like I/K did). I am also over Galit Chait forcing it on every Israeli skater in existence.

I did like Jonathan Cassar's program, though.

If Carmen is still around, I see no reason to dump SL. It is beautiful music, and not just for skating.

 

[mjb52]

I think when you are young and discover something for the first time, it feels new and fresh to you. A lot of these skaters don't necessarily have the associations with the music that fans who have been watching skating for literally decades do. A 15 year old could be hearing Carmen or Schindler's List for the first time and be genuinely moved by it and feel driven to skate to it.

 

[MsZem]

If Carmen is still around, I see no reason to dump SL. It is beautiful music, and not just for skating.

Carmen is just overused skating music. Schindler's List is not just another warhorse; it's a movie about the Holocaust - a tragedy of unimaginable proportions. These programs may be well-intentioned (I know Guignard/Fabbri's FD was), but I've had enough of skaters using that particular score to make themselves seem serious and artistic. To me, it trivializes the subject matter.

 

[Sylvia]

Roman Sadovsky's FS this season (blend of Schindler's List with Prelude in C-sharp minor (Bells of Moscow) by Sergei Rachmaninov) -- Autumn Classic Int'l is his best performance to date: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6u61vw

Thanks for linking to Jonathan Cassar's memorable version, @Angela-Fan!

 

[Aussie Willy]

Andrew Dodd's program at Australian Nationals was stunning. Beautiful choreography and skating.