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It is not Daniil Gleichengauz' choreography! And I really think they are not trained in that sort of style as a first introduction to dance. "It explains so much about the Sambo skaters" Such as Alena Kostornaia, whose style of predilection seems to be modern-jazz, or Anna Shcherbakova, so balletic? ;-)

I really don't think this is their introduction to dance! I don't like street dance but Alina Zagitova is so good there, I like when she does it. No, Je suis malade (1973) is from Alice Dona with Serge Lama's lyrics. Comme d'Habitude (1967) is from Jacques Devaux, with lyrics by Claude François (who sang it) and Gilles Thibaut. Here with French and English subtitles. It was French song from that era... It relates a love story killed by the difference in working hours, basically. So, I wouldn't like to see Yuzuru Hanyu skating to Comme d'Habitude. As to My Way, even if he likes very much to "have his own way", I don't think he's the sort of man pictured in the song. In a way I find it would stain him. Maybe some day a Japanese singer takes the music and writes a song specially meant for him. ;-)

The original version was by Serge Lama, and was waaaay better, and if it happened to exasperate me, it was just because I had heard it too much, in every street and every supermarket etc. Here, a "duo" as a tribute to the great Dalida, who had also sang it, and if you are not too disgusted by the Lara Fabian to try, you can listen to it, he had somehow lost the tune but the expression was there :

I think it is an ambiguity (unclearly speaking of Otoñal and Origin) rather than an assertion that Chopin and Seimei were these tributes.

I know absolutely nothing of this man. Do you think he drinks?

What I understand (in English) is that if he doesn't manage to improve (or at least maintain, for Alexandra Trusova) his new pupils' level, he will be able to recruit them for shows (instead of making them win championships), and have also Yuzuru Hanyu and Johnny Weir in these shows. Which I see as an angry way of showing little confidence in Plushenko School ability, no more. (Plus the initial reproach of "indecency" of course, quite expected.)

Alena Kostornaia's face has just finished her growth, so she needed a heavier make-up until now. This video is really the best! They omitted NDP, probably because the movements were different?

She implies clearly she prefers when it is Eteri Tutberidze. We don't know why Eteri Tutberidze understood Evgenia Medvedeva this way. Though Evgenia Medvedeva did express the wish Alina Zagitova should have been prevented from winning. Of course one cannot assert this was her firm opinion, as there was all the emotion of the "defeat" and the tiredness after her program.

Thank you so much for this long, deep interview of hers! I wouldn't have found it. Do you read Russian?

I wouldn't say so. Debussy was an impressionist composer, drawing a picture with little strokes/touches. I find Michelangeli insisted most on this aspect in his interpretation. I would say Moussorgsky was somehow impressionist in his Pictures of an Exposition, too. I don't think Chopin meant to describe a picture more than to tell a story. Pictures and stories are ways of expressing the feelings of soul, mind, imagination, physical sensations... and music is another way of expressing them. His music does so immediately, contrary to music using the mediation of a story or a picture. Of course the music is a mean in itself, and Chopin's had there the highest technical quality, if I can permit myself, giving Bach's life (he praised Bach to the skies but added his own too, plus his talent and hardwork, follow my gaze ) allowing him such expression. And not by little touches. By complex architectures, always feeling natural and showing little of this complexity (by the way, did you notice how Wakabe Higuchi missed the real movement of Yuzuru Hanyu's left arm in Seimei pose? It is hard to notice but it gives depth to Seimei's attitude; I am sure it is from himself, not from the choreograph), and without the least heaviness or redundancy, hence probably Yuzuru Hanyu's feeling of purity when listening to it. And his prelude to Ballade, is these seconds of immobility before starting to skate. I am sure Krystian Zimerman shed a tear.

From Wikipedia (not a very reliable source on spirituality matters, I'll admit; the Japanese page doesn't say much more, except about its extinction) considers Onmyodo a mix of Taoism (with the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements theories), Buddhism (I don't know which branch; maybe Tantric?) and Shintoism, first practised by Chinese Buddhist monks but later by laymen such as Abe no Seimei, and being then pure technique of divination and somehow astronomy and medicine, not a faith. BUT Onmyoji (the movie) clearly has a Buddhist apologetic objective, and the Abe no Seimei shrine, where this man was buried and where Yuzuru Hanyu paid a visit, is a Shinto shrine. And, yes, he said himself that he somehow summoned Abe no Seimei, which, depending on where Abe no Seimei is now, and what Yuzuru Hanyu really did, can be really dangerous, but developing would pass the limits of PlanetHanyu rules (no religion), which I think the previous description did not.

Not exactly, from what I read. He suggested her at a point, implying probably that after disappointing tests, she went some time in the junior group (not to be confused with the Junior age category : with Team Tutberidze the senior group includes many juniors, even novices though I think Veronika Zhilina was still training mostly with Rozanov but I am not sure) but it was not even him who helped her trying new jumps, and she prefers Eteri Tutberidze's presence at championships. https://fs-gossips.com/alena-kostornaia-of-course-its-very-disappointing-when-everyone-does-it-but-you-dont/ From what I have read (but I must rely on others lip sync and translations), the lip sync was that Evgenia Medvedeva asked : "Why did you let her win?" while (not initially told if I remember well) Eteri Tutberidze had kept it for what she probably thought Evgenia Medvedeva meant by these words (not having retained Alina Zagitova one more year in Junior).

Cannot one vote several times for a comment?

Rarely did Chopin want to say something. I mean, to say something articulate. It has been widely accepted long, that his Ballads were inspired by Mickiewicz's poems, but now it is known he never said or wrote anything of the sort. Chopin tells the feelings of the moment and their intricacy and evolution. Every time he would play his own works (which he could do only piano or softer because of wounds he got while trying a system to enhance his fingers strength), he would improvise an introduction (a prelude) to relate the mood of the moment he played in, of his friends around, etc, with the mood of the piece itself. The only prelude kept to this day (the Preludes were not preludes in this sense) is, as far as I know, the Andante Spianato, as a prelude to the Grande Polonaise brillante. So it can be said to be abstract, but I would rather say it is not storytelling, rather feelingtelling. And very expressive. And, if I can say, deeply, richly coloured, but I think this feeling depends on the persons.

How long must it have taken them to prepare this?

Funny but I think the first question is wrong. If I remember well, it is not Eteri Tutberidze who (even less initially) said Evgenia Medvedeva wanted Alina Zagitova to be let behind, it was known by reading on Evgenia Medvedeva's lips, when crying on Eteri Tutberidze's shoulders after he FS at Pyeong-Chang?

I found this old pre-Games video about Winter Olympians, cut to Jun Hwan Cha and though it is in Korean (and not subtitled) I found it interesting. There are interviews with Ghislain Briand, Brian Orser (speaking chiefly of Yuzuru Hanyu) and David Wilson (and Yuna Kim?) and a lot about Baby Jun.

He is still.

The problem being, Yuzuru Hanyu himself seems to prefer Seimei. Usually I am not influenced by others' tastes, but here?

It is so insanely hard. I have a personal preference for Chopin, but Seimei is wonderful too AND Yuzuru Hanyu himself seems to prefer Seimei.

From Daniil Gleichengauz' interview he would teach rollers before, and learned everything about ice skating from them.

After some reflection another scenario emerges. Of course we first learnt about Alexandra Trusova's leaving Team Tutberidze. But isn't it more likely that the first who decided to leave was Sergei Rozanov, and that he helped luring the girls' parents about continuing somehow the same (boasting to be able to provide all what the team did), somehow better with a bit of Plushenko (and evoking his medals) with better rink etc? If so, what decided him? Maybe he didn't like the working atmosphere and when approached by Plushenko, thought he would be better there? But maybe, there was also a hefty sum? In such case I wouldn't much rely on such a coach for my own child. All speculation of course, as we are purely on speculations (and outright accusations, even the most evidently false ones). And speaking of Eteri Tutberidze blocked in quarantine in Detroit, it seems some knew about it and chose well their moment to attack... Edit : I forgot to mention Daniil Samsonov. I think it less likely for him to go, because he came to the team with Daniil Gleichengauz, who was his previous coach, and they seem to go very well along, but there again, he's a minor, who decide are his parents.

I hope it so, not that I consider Eteri Tutberidze to be favoured by Rusfed, but for Ladies skating in general. Because, I have no idea about Alena Zhilina, but I find Veronika extremely promising, and would ve sorry if her talent was to be lost.

In a sense he does, but he also does it with a big pinch of salt. I see it as a sort of "let's play seduction", not an "I'm the best, nobody resist me" (which I tend to find insufferable). He is so kind to "play with us", to introduce a sort of complicity.

Oh! What a scam! https://laidbackgardener.blog/2017/12/04/how-to-recognize-fake-cactus-flowers/