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- Dec 9, 2017
I know there are different people with different opinions on artistry, especially in the ladies' singles event, so feel free to discuss your opinions here.
I personally would like to know how we can promote the artistry that Giada Russo and Karen Chen show in their SPs. I feel ladies' singles suffers from a lot of things. Programmes crammed with transitions are rewarded, which leaves comparatively little space for artistic expression.
Something comes from the nature of the sport itself, because a program with more flow shows more skill, which inevitably removes certain genres like Hip-Hop (though Daisuke Takahashi had a different opinion) from the equation, but the SPs of Russo and Chen aren't Hip-Hop.
Is it also the case that the judges are too set in their ways? I remember in an interview Yuna said she was afraid to use traditional Korean music for fear of how it would be received by the Western audience and judges. Is it a "whatever works better" mentality that causes stagnation?
Similar problem for the two events separated by gender, too? Fluidity for women, strength for men?
I personally would like to know how we can promote the artistry that Giada Russo and Karen Chen show in their SPs. I feel ladies' singles suffers from a lot of things. Programmes crammed with transitions are rewarded, which leaves comparatively little space for artistic expression.
Something comes from the nature of the sport itself, because a program with more flow shows more skill, which inevitably removes certain genres like Hip-Hop (though Daisuke Takahashi had a different opinion) from the equation, but the SPs of Russo and Chen aren't Hip-Hop.
Is it also the case that the judges are too set in their ways? I remember in an interview Yuna said she was afraid to use traditional Korean music for fear of how it would be received by the Western audience and judges. Is it a "whatever works better" mentality that causes stagnation?
Similar problem for the two events separated by gender, too? Fluidity for women, strength for men?