Uh.... Jason was about 19 points off of bronze.
I don't know about fans and judges, but when I watch some TV commentators or on-line shows hosts saying: "I don't know, what she's doing with her hands, but..." it's really disappointing and lame tbh.Thank you boskil. I had no idea. I'll watch her performance again with this in mind
Wonder if the judges take time to explore all skaters programs/stories or if they mostly go with music interpretation. Maybe they get an explanation along with planned elements?
I don't know about fans and judges, but when I watch some TV commentators or on-line shows hosts saying: "I don't know, what she's doing with her hands, but..." it's really disappointing and lame tbh.
It's their job to know what World, European, GPF Champion's choreography is about (at least roughly), she was explaining it in multiple interviews since the last summer - it's been translated in her fan thread in this very place. All that is required is minimum effort towards a great skater.
Satoko has so many lovely qualities, but this LP doesn't do anything for me. It's pleasant and lyrical but it doesn't make me feel anything other than "oh that's nice." Her SP is somewhat stronger.
Time for Evgenia to slayyyy. I finally fell in love with her LP at Worlds and I'm ready to see it again.
Good choreography makes you understand it without research.
The same bland impression here when it comes to LP of Satoko. I find her SP better.
I disagree. I'm all for commentators doing their research (and seriously saying "I don't know what she's doing with her hands there" is pretty stupid), but nobody should have to research anything to get the choreography of a good program. Good choreography makes you understand it without research.
I agree. I think it looks better than the light purple she had all season. It makes her look taller somehow.
lol.Closing monologue of Annie Hall. Though Manhattan has one of my favorite Woody Allen quips: Don't knock masturbation...it's sex with someone I love!
I am not completely sold on Jason. I noticed that in the finale number he was sort of head of the pack and did the first little solo mini skate. Kinda weird since he hasn't been around all season.I have to admire Jason coming back - though I think he was overmarked, somewhat laboured, somewhat heistant at times and his lines are n't as strong and he wasn't as fast as in the pass but ghive him some time to continue the heal and all. But I am still resolute his skating skills are overrated. It will be interested to see what happens to him next year with Adam, Joshua, Max and maybe Jeremy too.
She's catching up to Satoko! http://shoma-uno.tumblr.com/image/143295111162
I know it doesn't mean much but still, I hope people stop treating her like a baby. Her skating is beautiful and I thought her scores were a bit low for what she did. Glad to see her PCS starting to get higher though. I think Tursy or "Lil Bet" as some like to call her is one to watch in the future, or maybe even now, she's so fierce and determined :luv17:
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I am not completely sold on Jason. I noticed that in the finale number he was sort of head of the pack and did the first little solo mini skate. Kinda weird since he hasn't been around all season.
I just kinda sorta sometimes think that Jason is the USFSA's golden boy. He is talented and a crowd pleaser.But I think sometimes he has been a little overscored.
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I am not completely sold on Jason. I noticed that in the finale number he was sort of head of the pack and did the first little solo mini skate. Kinda weird since he hasn't been around all season.
He is talented and a crowd pleaser.But I think sometimes he has been a little overscored.
In Patrick Chan's Take Five short program he sticks his elbows out to the side, then he snaps his head back. How in the world are we ever supposed to guess that he is pretending to be a bar-hopping playboy with two young ladies on his arms, and then he gets punched in the face by the boyfriend of one of the girls?
Well... I DO read the libretto before going to ballet. They sell those brochures in theater for a good purpose. For people to read the pre-story and hints of the plot. Human race being doing it for centuries, you know. If good choreography is considered to be on form some silly butt shaking on MTV for easy-understanding nowdays. Imho, good choreography should be complex, should make person to watch in closely several times and to think about it. Sometimes I have to read other people's deep analysis of some ballets to understand it better, and then go back and watch it one more time. Otherwise it's not a choreography, but just the ...let say... twerking. And I'm a 34 y.o. male, straight as a whistle (hey, don't hold it against me! ) I have nothing against twerking at all. But to my taste a trully great choreography requires some deep thinking in order to understand all nuances and shades. But it's just me. YMMV.
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I am not completely sold on Jason. I noticed that in the finale number he was sort of head of the pack and did the first little solo mini skate. Kinda weird since he hasn't been around all season.
I just kinda sorta sometimes think that Jason is the USFSA's golden boy. He is talented and a crowd pleaser.But I think sometimes he has been a little overscored.
She's portraying deaf girl trying to embrace our "normal" world: the whole idea is based on sign language, which she trained before the season under supervision of professional translator of people with hearing disorders. The girl is curious of surrounding world, world she can't hear, but also the world she's not afraid and is trying to explore. The beginning: ear covering gestures express her disability, but also instantly the smile indicates the youthful zeal and openess, then the curtains she makes with her hands at the rink side are symbols of barriers between her world of silence and ours; she is bypassing them, pushing through to the touching end, when she "says" in sign language: "I can't hear you, but get goosebumps feeling you deep in my heart. I'm not afraid of you, I open up to you".
Oh, I don't know about that, not at all. To tell the truth, to me most choreography does not say much at all, except to be a vehicle for the spacing of jumps and spins. When I go to the theater, and especially opera or ballet, I greatly appreciate the program notes. Without them I cannot understand why this dancer is flapping her arms like a bird.
In Patrick Chan's Take Five short program he sticks his elbows out to the side, then he snaps his head back. How in the world are we ever supposed to guess that he is pretending to be a bar-hopping playboy with two young ladies on his arms, and then he gets punched in the face by the boyfriend of one of the girls?
Many skaters have undertaken Meditation by Thais. Do they know that the "meditation" is about, "Should i be a nun or a prostitute? Let me think, let me think."
On the other hand, some choreography aggressively denies telling any story at all. Michelle Kwan's Lyra Angelica is about Michelle Kwan skating. That's it. (Lori Nichol once told me that she chose this music as Michelle's vehicle because that was the music that she wanted to hear playing when she herself walked through the pearly gates. )
Then there are the really ambitious efforts that tie the short program and the long program together with complementary or contrasting themes. Michelle's intended programs in the 2005-2006 season were supposed to be about life and death. We never got to see the dirge-like Prelude in C sharp minor, but we did see the (paradoxically) spirited and life-affirming program to the Dance of Death. (Michelle is portraying a modern party girl, not a medieval resurrected skeleton.)
All of this is very interesting to me. And, I think, impossible to guess on one's own without being told.
(On the other hand, sometimes it is obvious. Once Sasha Cohen as Juliet fell out of her closing pose. While lying awkwardly on the ice she cleverly played it off by pretending to stab herself. )
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She's portraying deaf girl trying to embrace our "normal" world: the whole idea is based on sign language, which she trained before the season under supervision of professional translator of people with hearing disorders. The girl is curious of surrounding world, world she can't hear, but also the world she's not afraid and is trying to explore. The beginning: ear covering gestures express her disability, but also instantly the smile indicates the youthful zeal and openess, then the curtains she makes with her hands at the rink side are symbols of barriers between her world of silence and ours; she is bypassing them, pushing through to the touching end, when she "says" in sign language: "I can't hear you, but get goosebumps feeling you deep in my heart. I'm not afraid of you, I open up to you".