Putting this here for later.
The skating part of this gorgeous skating aside, Tessa's body articulation is extraordinary. Also, how little they need to do to effect transitions into lifts and out of them. I wonder if they'll be made to fuss it up /unnecessarily b.s. to disguise their extraordinary mastery of the mechanics, and I wonder if people who don't know what they're looking at will think how Virtue and Moir are doing things here is basic. Good luck any male ice dancer in the world besides Scott assisting his partner into a rotational lift with what looks like a flick of the wrist.
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| Oh look, voluntarily using some Latin in their fd. And here I'd understood from a pair of two-time world champions that Latin can't be skated even as a pattern dance whose vocabulary has existed in ice dance since time began. |
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| Look at her. Back when they did their "reality" show, I dragged Tessa pretty hard for coming across like a bot. But the truth is, she's not human. Think how impossible it is for any other ice dancer to do what she does, and then remember that in her spare time, she's had kids. |
Tessa's skating and quality of movement is mesmerizing in this free. As spectacular as she's always been, there's even more softness, fluidity, power, precision, seamlessness and flow in her skating and her movement. Even down to her hands and wrists when they're on Scott's neck as she changes position. And the quiet, the power, speed, accuracy and absolute perfect mechanics of the lifts so far - not a single fail safe.
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| This is beautiful. A million ice dancers have died on the ice with a sequence of collapsing into their partner's arms, but Tessa isn't collapsing. Her "character" is. She's not. |
amazing. they must have gotten permission to include the carmen lift.
ReplyDeleteYes. Probably before they went to Gadbois. It can't be coincidence that last year they Gadbois'd it up in the free, not including any elements that couldn't be done by another team, only relying on their execution to win. Now all the stuff completely out of reach of any other team is back. Of course, what other teams do will be rated at the same level of difficulty as what Virtue and Moir do, because that's how ice dance rolls. It likes to assign L4 to added features that actually make an element easier. That aside, it seems to me that VM insisted they get to be VM in the Olympic season, which means they got more out of their deal than just the promise of Olympic gold if they skated Marie-France-ily and clean. They get to skate like themselves.
ReplyDeleteI loved Carmen so much and it's wonderful to see it back, better than ever, because that's pretty much what this is, not just stylistically and musically, but technically. What Carmen did was require Virtue and Moir to use dance technique with their skating technique in, through, and out of elements, instead of just styling the dance from the knees up when executing elements, as every other team does. That's back too. This is a stunning program.
The camp for V/M MR is split. Even among V/M fans. You hit it on the nail with other teams being rated the same difficulty as V/M. Of course those who aren't V/M fans are just commenting about how horrid there SD outfits were or that music is not defined as Latin enough; MR is just recycled etc...Never mind the SKATING SKILLS, right? I sure hope that they won't be railroaded this season. Still gotta wait till this weekend to see what P/C's up to. Since apparently in Ice dance they are the "force to be reckoned with".
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