The Ultimate Ladies Short Programs of the 1996 calendar year: Kristi Vs Michelle Vs Lulu (Pick 2)

[bardtoob]

The Ultimate Ladies Short Programs of the 1996 calendar year: Kristi Vs Michelle Vs Lulu (Pick 2)

Kristi Yamaguchi

K. YAMAGUCHI - 1996 ULTIMATE FOUR - SP

KRISTI YAMAGUCHI - 1996 ULTIMATE FOUR - SP

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Michelle Kwan

Michelle Kwan 1996 Worlds SP - Romanza Eurosport

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M. KWAN - 1996 ULTIMATE FOUR - SP

MICHELLE KWAN - 1996 ULTIMATE FOUR - SP

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Chen Lu

Chen Lu 陈露 (CHN) - 1996 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Short Program

Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA - 1996 World Figure Skating Championships, Ladies' Short Program - Chen Lu of China skated a wonderfully elegant program to place 2...

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I chose the (Pick 2) option since Michelle has two options. This allows you two choose:

Kristi and Michelle
Michelle and Michelle
Michelle and Lulu
Kristi and Lulu

which is still UNFAIR!

 

[bardtoob]

OMG! THE FIRST THREE VOTES BROKE THE ALGORITHM!

33% for every category

133.2%

I knew these were all unbelievable programs!

 

[SmallFairy]

Sorry poll. Only Zuzanna Szwed for me. One foot step sequence Too bad there’s no video from Euros, where she was clean. Those Polish power ladies!

Zuzanna Szwed POL - 1996 World Championships SP

QB : 10th, SP : 25th, LP : FNR, 25th placeMarch 17th-24th, Edmonton, CAN

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[VGThuy]

"Dream of Desdemona" is my ultimate SP that never feels like a SP.

ETA: Watching all the clips above...OMG...musical phrasing. Choreographing elements and jumps to hit the drama of the music. Mood setting. Clarity of shape and movement. I miss all of that, my gosh.

 

[briancoogaert]

Dream of Desdemona was absolutely amazing !
I love them for, but in term of choreography (intricacy, difficult turns...), my favorites are Michelle's (DoD and Romanza).

 

[Marco]

Very iconic programs.

DoD tops my list without a doubt.

Spring Breeze in 2nd for being so elegant and perfect.

Romanza is very nice but I don't like that she repeated a spiral position (did I misremember?)

 

[bardtoob]

Purple

 

[jenny12]

I know that Dream of Desdemona is a great program but I forgot just how brilliantly it was choreographed. Love it so much!

 

[zigzig]

michelle's programs from 96-2000 and maybe eoe from 2001 DEFINED choreograpy and musicality. they were PERFECTION.

I liked chen lu's spring breeze program tho. was a good vehicle for her and I liked they went with more authentic music rather than forcing all these poor asian girls to keep skating to madame butterfly, turandot and miss saigon