Japan Open 2009 !!

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I don't want her to have a childish program, but something that relates more her personnality would be better in my opinion.

What kind of a program would relate Mao?
Figure skater is an actor on the ice, so there should be some dramatical moments. Mao is not a little girl, she has grown, and her last performances reflected her maturity, beauty of skating.

sumin wrote:

What kind of a program would relate Mao?
Figure skater is an actor on the ice, so there should be some dramatical moments. Mao is not a little girl, she has grown, and her last performances reflected her maturity, beauty of skating.

I agree sumin, Mao is not a little girl anymore.

But she is an ethereal, graceful, light skater. Everything she does looks effortless. Unfortunately, that does not seem to fit the very heavy, plodding, ominous sound of 'Bells of Moscow,' in my opinion.

I know we have discussed music choices for Mao in other threads, but I thought of this song today--since it's dramatic and a bit melancholy, but still beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5pkCRA5DgA

(And it's played by Joshua Bell, who played 'Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra'!)

But in my heart of hearts I'd love to see Mao skate to 'Swan Lake,' cliched though it may be. She'd just be a natural swan, I know it!

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bibi wrote:

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I don't want her to have a childish program, but something that relates more her personnality would be better in my opinion.

What kind of a program would relate Mao?
Figure skater is an actor on the ice, so there should be some dramatical moments. Mao is not a little girl, she has grown, and her last performances reflected her maturity, beauty of skating.

I agree that there can be dramatic moments depending on the program the skater chose to interpret. In the past, Mao seemed to have found programs (just as Nocturne, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Clair de lune, Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra, so deep is the night, caprice, por una cabeza) that matched her personality on the ice.