Skating to The Nutcracker

Vash01

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It seems music from the Nutcracker is almost as popular as Carmen in skating. I found several of these performances to music from the Nutcracker (pas de Deux is the most popular, followed by Waltz of the flowers, and just one Arabian). I am sure there are more, and I have not

Gordeeva Grinkov –Pro (Landover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdR6ktdQvM


G&G at Sun Valley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBX1SQckjk&t=21s


Bechke & Petrov- Oly 92

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWaSkMn25Kw


Bechke & Petrov – Pro (Landover)

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


Shen & Zhao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHQRfNDX3kI


Boikova Kozlovski (2018 Dec. Russian Nationals)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owQ0YZkN_k0


Sasha Cohen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fmgitk1SLU

Elena Radionova (Waltz of the flowers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBU7DY0F-w


Tobias & KTchenko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzltx6yI1N4

Davis & White (Show)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRDnk5b9iCk


Misha Ge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2GQ3MGSCGI


Petrova-Tikhanov (2001 GPF SP)

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

Savchenko & Szolkowy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loUSRX7zcgM


Mao Asada (2006 LP- Waltz of the flowers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juC7sAi80yU

Peng & Zhang (Arabian Dance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTj8NHPCZ_E


Dorothy Hamill (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJHOkqQ1mN4


Zi Jun Li (Waltz of the flowers)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOA0ajmqwoM


Plushenko (Waltz of the flowers)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMJW0OxOgLQ


Baiul and Boitano (Show)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGTWg-XjIro
 

ldec

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Thanks a lot for making this thread. Unfortunately, don't have more videos to contribute - I think you have listed the most popular performances although I am sure more will be added by other users.

I love the Nutcracker and my favorite part is probably the Pas de Deux as it is so serene and emotionally charged at the same time. As for favorite skating performance, it has to be Shen and Zhao (both their GPF and Worlds performances were sublime).
 
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@Vash01, you started a thread on this topic several years ago that's now archived :) ... some more video links from that thread:
Here is Katherine Healy (age 15- hard to believe!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooM0ow-7n1g
...
Music other than Pas de Deux from the Nutcracker:

Ilia Kulik (pro- one of my favorite programs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-hQp1zd00Y
Ilia also created this lovely program to Waltz of the Flowers for a TV Christmas special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxTcUR1VAII

Note the height on that first axel!
Here's another performance:

John Curry - The Nutcracker - Royal Albert Hall 1984
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGjm4vIBIrU
Totmyanina/Marinin "Pas De Deux" [1997]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwTWWPSL3M
Jason Brown won his first-ever international at 2010 Gardena Spring Trophy in Italy with this "Pas de Deux" program (video without commentary; ignore the crying baby at the beginning): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6P-EycfmS0
 
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This is who I have as skating to Nutcracker, there is probably more......(amateur comps, not pro's)

MiraLeungNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JuliaLipnitskaiaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SofiaBiryukovaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
FlorentAmodioNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PeterLiebersNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JenniferKirkNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
QiuyingZhuNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
DouglasRazzanoNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
HanYanNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PavelKaskaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CarolineZhangNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CourtneyHicksNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
OndrejNepalaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
ElizavetaTuktamyshevaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JillTrenaryNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)/The Seasons (Glazunov)

Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy
Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri
Cheng Pang & Hao Zhang
Ekaterina Sokolova & Fedor Sokolov
Elena Bechke & Denis Petrov
Isabella Tobias & Deividas Stagnuinas
Isabella Tobias & Ilia Tkachenko
JoJo Starbuck & Ken Shelly
Kaitlyn Hawayek & Jean Luc Baker
Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov
Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo
Tatyana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin
Xiaoyu Yu & Yang Jin
Xintong Huang & Xun Zheng
Antonia Becherer & Ferdinand Becherer
 

Vash01

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@Vash01, you started a thread on this topic several years ago that's now archived :) ... some more video links from that thread:

Thank you. I had completely forgotten about it. It seems I missed several performances from the old thread. Probably they are no longer on YouTube?

I was inspired to create the new thread because of Boikova-Kozlovski’s recent LP. My favorite may still be G&G’s Pro technical at Landover. I also liked Bechke & Petrov’s in 92. Pas de Deux is such an elegant music!
Perfect for pairs skating. ‘Carmen’ is perfect for singles. That’s why we keep seeing skaters using it, I think.

I also liked Tobias & Tkchenko’s FD in 2017, though it was lacking in difficulty. One more pair did FD to it at the same competition but I don’t remember who.
 

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I also liked Tobias & Tkchenko’s FD in 2017, though it was lacking in difficulty. One more pair did FD to it at the same competition but I don’t remember who.

Guignard and Fabbri :). In both cases, the music cuts were rather unsuccessful (Tobias/Tkachenko added some strange beat, while Guignard/Fabbri used multiple fragments)
 

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This is who I have as skating to Nutcracker, there is probably more......(amateur comps, not pro's)

MiraLeungNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JuliaLipnitskaiaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SofiaBiryukovaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
FlorentAmodioNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PeterLiebersNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JenniferKirkNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
QiuyingZhuNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
DouglasRazzanoNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
HanYanNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PavelKaskaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CarolineZhangNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CourtneyHicksNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
OndrejNepalaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
ElizavetaTuktamyshevaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JillTrenaryNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
Thank you for finally some one mentioning Courtney Hicks'es Cracker, I believe it is the most true to the music and feeling's. How ever, I wonder who was the composer of the music she used??
 

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Not competitive programs, but there was a "Nutcracker on Ice" tour in 1995 with Brian Orser (as Drosselmaier), Nicole Bobek (as Clara), Todd Eldredge (as the Nutcracker/prince) & Peggy Fleming (as the Sugar Plum Fairy).
 

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Not competitive programs, but there was a "Nutcracker on Ice" tour in 1995 with Brian Orser (as Drosselmaier), Nicole Bobek (as Clara), Todd Eldredge (as the Nutcracker/prince) & Peggy Fleming (as the Sugar Plum Fairy).

And...Rory Flack Burghart as Sugar Plum in the original Nutcracker on Ice tour that starred Oksana!
 

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This is who I have as skating to Nutcracker, there is probably more......(amateur comps, not pro's)

MiraLeungNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JuliaLipnitskaiaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SofiaBiryukovaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
FlorentAmodioNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PeterLiebersNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JenniferKirkNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
QiuyingZhuNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
DouglasRazzanoNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
HanYanNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PavelKaskaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CarolineZhangNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CourtneyHicksNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
OndrejNepalaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
ElizavetaTuktamyshevaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JillTrenaryNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)/The Seasons (Glazunov)

Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy
Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri
Cheng Pang & Hao Zhang
Ekaterina Sokolova & Fedor Sokolov
Elena Bechke & Denis Petrov
Isabella Tobias & Deividas Stagnuinas
Isabella Tobias & Ilia Tkachenko
JoJo Starbuck & Ken Shelly
Kaitlyn Hawayek & Jean Luc Baker
Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov
Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo
Tatyana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin
Xiaoyu Yu & Yang Jin
Xintong Huang & Xun Zheng
Antonia Becherer & Ferdinand Becherer
This is who I have as skating to Nutcracker, there is probably more......(amateur comps, not pro's)

MiraLeungNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JuliaLipnitskaiaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SofiaBiryukovaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
FlorentAmodioNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PeterLiebersNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JenniferKirkNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
QiuyingZhuNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
DouglasRazzanoNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
HanYanNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
PavelKaskaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CarolineZhangNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
CourtneyHicksNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
OndrejNepalaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
ElizavetaTuktamyshevaNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
SashaCohenNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
JillTrenaryNutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)/The Seasons (Glazunov)

Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy
Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri
Cheng Pang & Hao Zhang
Ekaterina Sokolova & Fedor Sokolov
Elena Bechke & Denis Petrov
Isabella Tobias & Deividas Stagnuinas
Isabella Tobias & Ilia Tkachenko
JoJo Starbuck & Ken Shelly
Kaitlyn Hawayek & Jean Luc Baker
Maria Petrova & Alexei Tikhonov
Shen Xue & Zhao Hongbo
Tatyana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin
Xiaoyu Yu & Yang Jin
Xintong Huang & Xun Zheng
Antonia Becherer & Ferdinand Becherer

We should probably do a list for Swan Lake! Sorry...I'm hanging my head in shame. <snicker>
 

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