The Dance Hall 13: When You Dance on the Ice and Your Feet Twizzle Twice, That's Amore

[litenkyckling]

Many more unmentionables are significantly shallower and more pretentious. We may not like his politics, but when you see him skate, you can't help but believe that he has a point of view, depth, and a story. My humble recommendation is to keep the off-ice and on-ice as separate as possible.

That's your choice.

I think for a lot of people - myself included - his "politics" completely impact how I view his art. His point of view has actively hurt people, so I frankly don't care to hear about the stories he's telling.

 

[Dobre]

JGP Riga thoughts:

Taking into account that this is obviously a big rebuilding year in juniors...

I was quite happy with Mouaden & Bigot's material in Riga. It's been a long time since I've seen them, and it's nice to see they are living up to that potential one could see early on. (They're also a lot more together than most of the field).

I thought Tscharner & Wiederkehr had a unique feel in both programs, and I look forward to watching them develop.

Then I also enjoyed the Scottish FD and the Amelie. (Looked both teams up & realized the latter is a team that Nazarova & Nikitin choreographed for so kudos to N&N on the Amelie as well).

Regarding Deych & Hu, she has some lovely stretch; but I'm pretty sure they're just too "nice" to turn out to be my kind of team. (I've seen them twice now, which is undoubtedly too early to leap to that conclusion, but leaping I am).

I desperately need Veillon's team to work on her positions. That rotating over the head lift there in the FD must have had at least three positions--none of them right. And at least two of the poses before that needed work. I'm sure they've good traits, but as with a young Taschlerova & Taschler, I need this before I'm likely to appreciate the rest.

 

[Bigbird]

As per Riga, I much preferred the second-placed ID team to the first, so I hope they continue to improve during the season.