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I'm not sure if this has been shared previously - it's not new - but given my wholehearted adoration of Change, a video with three versions simultaneously is too good not to.

I thought I read somewhere HYK was confirmed as the exhibition piece... or that may have been wishful dreaming, I do adore it...

Given the price of the tickets, if he does decide to we will hear the shrieks of joy from their accountant right round the world....

That would smash my powers of resistance completely to pieces...

Stop. Tempting. Me. I don't even know how to order one from Australia, but I so love music boxes (and Yuzu of course!) that my resistance is severely weakening...

Remember another 17 year old bouncing around like an excited kitten when he got bronze....

You remember the light and dark Yuzu angels the other day? I ran across animated versions...

This is one of my favourite gala vids and in my rewatch list so often, but I hadn't seen the earlier one, and am now checking youtube for others. Wouldn't you love to see him do it - or something as just plain boyish fun - again?

A couple of the program music channels on youtube have made versions of the actual cuts, I'm still swithering about which I will listen to on high rotation in the days before Helskinki..... along with Seimei, Chopin, H&L etc just to remind me who we are waiting on Now once we get the gala version of Haru yo koi.....

Think of Britain's Eddie the Eagle....

Anyone else find their inner six-year-old wants to play with paper dolls... and their outer adult agrees???

... but in a really really good way

Me too, it's been too long.....

I know what you mean, I knew before I saw it that he'd struggled through and still medalled but I watched it with heart in my throat and a chorus of "oh Yuzu why???" in my head... But it probably should have warned everyone writing him off preOlympics not to underestimate how he could and would push through injury no matter what. It was not wise, but it was - as people have learned over and over again - so incredibly Yuzu....

You can, it was up to the last quad, anything earlier is fair game

So a little quiz born while I was watching a favourite Japanese movie, the premise of which is that in the afterlife people are allowed to choose one - just one memory to take with them (it's called After Life, and it is an exquisite movie, by the way). If you had to pick just one program by Yuzuru as a memory to take, which would it be? - and if you want to make it even harder. which one performance? Make it up the the end of the last quad (Olympics 2018, as we haven't seen Otonal & Origin at their best, but when we do.....)

sorry posted in wrong thread

To me, it's a little more complicated than that (and I speak as someone who liked it, and adored the Bollywood version of Shakespeare I once saw). Yes, political politics comes into play (and that's all I'll say about it, with respect to the forum rules) but Bollywood does by its very nature ride the fine edge of OTT, that's part of its appeal. Therefore it's way too easy for even the most respectful and researched take on it to topple ever-so-slightly into looking like unintentional caricature. I sometimes think how great a prgram set to some of Ketelby's period Orientalism music might be... but then again, In a Persian Market (look it up on youtube, do) is fabulous but would run the same risk. Whereas Madame Butterfly.... anyone can do. While Riverdance does present a fascinating cultural tangle with an American and a Japanese doing a celebration of Irish culture... as does the thirty billion good bad and omigod tangos this session from all nations (poor Piazolla!!) for me one of the most fascinating tangle would be American or French (I think) skaters using an Italian opera about a Japanese geisha... were it not for the even more fascinating one of a Japanese skater using the same very Italian opera about a Japanese geisha. I would also love to see someone try a piece based on Sondheim's Pacific Overtures for similar reasons (okay and yes, because it would make me squeal with joy)

This turned up on my pinterest, no credit (if anyone knows, tell me) but I thought it still needed sharing...

Ummm, oh there are a lot. Of the top of my head though, here's five that simply make me happy to rewatch a hundred times.. 1. Worlds 2012, the triple axel-triple toe straight after that fall, when people realised this kid did comebacks like whoah... and of course his bouncing in the medal ceremony 2. the end pose and breathtakingly regal throwdown expression at the end of the Olympics Chopin, and oh yes yes yes, the choreo sequence in Seimei. If anyone wants to know why he's the King and why he's the best loved King.... 3. The LGC encore at Japan Nationals (2016?) in Swanyu feathers 4. The last pose of his 2014 R&J at Worlds, where he'd given it everything he had.... 5. The glorious hydro and IB from Haru no yoi And that's just off the top of my head

Have to say that one of my favourite bits of CWW is when he's doing the Parisian Walkways bit in the Etude costume. But then I have a total thing for galas where he encores of the sexier, rakish pieces like PW or LGC wearing Swanyu or Requiem...