Books related to figure skating choreography

[skating_geek]

Hello skating community <3

I am looking for books that have information about making a figure skating choreography.
I cannot find any in my home country (Finland), but maybe there is something available online.
The books would be sources for my college thesis.



I would appreciate all kinds of help and answers!

 

[mskater93]

Ricky Harris's book is the only one that comes to mind

 

[Paulipau]

On the books subject, do you guys know any books where figure skating appears? Might be a novel or criminal or whatever, I read everything.

 

[Elija]

On the books subject, do you guys know any books where figure skating appears? Might be a novel or criminal or whatever, I read everything.

Hour of of Need by Melinda Leigh (crime novel).

 

[NanaPat]

Some figure skaging romances are:

Pairing Off by Elizabeth Harmon (part of the "Red Hot Russians" series). It Figures and Figuring it Out (young adult novels by Melody Tyden). Those are on my kindle. You should be able to find more on Amazon.

Also, there is a figure skating mystery series by Alina Adams. It's also available on kindle.

 

[Talionis]

On the books subject, do you guys know any books where figure skating appears? Might be a novel or criminal or whatever, I read everything.

The Edge of Glory, by M.J. Parisian. Told from the coach's perspective.

 

[eppen]

Hello skating community <3

I am looking for books that have information about making a figure skating choreography.
I cannot find any in my home country (Finland), but maybe there is something available online.
The books would be sources for my college thesis.



I would appreciate all kinds of help and answers!

Terve skating_geek!

Have you found what you were looking for? I've not had much time for the forum lately, so missed this... I have also checked the academic library holdings in Finland for books on FS in general and coming up almost empty. I guess the topic has not been too important in any of them (though there are interesting theses).

Was happy to see a reference to the book by Ricky Harris above (1991: Choreography and Style for Figure Skaters), because that had not come up in any of my searches!

There are some reasearch articles on prorgram stuctures, use of music, and one also on choregraphy styles (Moormann 2006 in Journal of Creative Behavior).

I think that the kind of professional choreography we see in FS these days is a relatively new part of the discipline - really only from the 1980s onwards after all, so it is likely that not a whole lot of research has not been done on it. And the choreographers themselves have not written about their work as many are still active!

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[icewhite]

I am really interested in the topic and find it surprising how little material there is out there.

 

[gleungc6]

Could I ask what field you’re looking for? If you’re looking at cognition and psychology, broadening your search to studies could be helpful. Depending on your methodology and the constraints of your thesis, you could find it helpful to look at the literature on choreography in dance as a stepping stone. Are you interested in somatics, embodied cognition, visualisation, affect, creativity, music, socialisation etc?