2018 JGP Yerevan Rhythm Dance

[Spirals for Miles]

Set your clock for the FD. It is at going to be on crazy early here.

4am for me :shocked:

 

[SnowWhite]

4am for me :shocked:

Me too. I'll have to skip this one and watch back later.

 

[4everchan]

Me too. I'll have to skip this one and watch back later.

you know me i may watch

 

[WeakAnkles]

Your intrepid PBPer made sure to set the alarm for the RIGHT time, so I AM up. That's the good news. The bad news is I left the milk out and it went sour and I cannot possibly deal with twizzles and figuring out if something is a REAL lift or just a choreographed one without my coffee. One wonderful thing about NYC is that you can indeed run out to get milk that isn't for a king's ransom at 2:45 am. Yay for the city that never sleeps!

 

[Ice Dance]

But the result of inexperience for the whole team is they came to their first event with a rhythm dance with a totally wonderful midline step that is a great choreographic step in tango style, but gets them level 1, and a Blues FD without sufficient change between the two pieces of music, and maybe too long sections without a defined beat. They would score better if they had a review with Judy Blumberg.

I'd be very surprised if the Browns' programs weren't previously reviewed by Judy. It was their third event of the season. They were at the Chesapeake Open and U.S. Dance Camp as well as Lake Placid. Judy watched nearly everything at Lake Placid, and I kind of assumed she was taking notes & meeting with the U.S. teams there? I think she teaches at dance camp, and teams are monitored there. B&B did not have Galit Chait on the tech panel, unlike the junior teams that competed in the international portion of the junior event at Lake Placid; but the only team to make the JGP that did was Gunter & Wein. I expect the Browns got feedback from Judy. It is interesting that their FD music wasn't deducted there, as the Parsons' took the deduction for theirs; but P&P competed in the senior international portion of the event. Sometimes this happens. Better at your first JGP than U.S. Nationals or Junior Worlds. The Browns are thus far outplacing anything one could have anticipated based on their last couple seasons. Wolfkostin & Zhao, Buckley & Chen, Liu & Slevira, and Tkachenko & Kiliakov all defeated them last year at Nationals, and the Browns had higher levels in the FD there than all but W&Z. It was the compulsories that cost B&B there. To see a team go from 5th in novices to where the Browns are in the junior field this season is quite an impressive growth curve.

Also the assistant technical specialist in both the junior and senior international events at Lake Placid was Canadian. I don't know if the one in the domestic junior event was; but here Gunter & Wein are with two level ones. (They had two level 3 patterns and a level 2 footwork under Chait & Senft at LPIDCI; but two level 1s here. Maybe nerves?) I just mean to say that the U.S. junior dance teams had the opportunity for national and international feedback. (A couple teams that competed in the LP junior international event were ranked below the Browns so I'd assume the opportunity to compete in that event was available--though risky. B&B needed a high score to get onto the ISP, and the domestic event at Lake Placid was where they got it). I'm not at all sure that the assistant tech specialist in the domestic event at Lake Placid wasn't Canadian. I just have no memory of who it was.

 

[dorispulaski]

Then it is puzzling. Particularly the music deduction part.