She had to withdraw from a Challenger Series competition early in the season due to the injury, but returned to training one month before her first competition of the season, 2019 Skate America. We need to encourage skaters to stay longer in figure skating, to have longer competitive careers. Inspired by this, I went to Lyon and started my ice dance career. She is the 2018 Four Continents champion, a two-time Skate America silver medalist, the 2018 Grand Prix of Helsinki bronze medalist, the 2018 Japanese national champion, and the 2017 Japanese national silver medalist. Figure Skating's Champ Camp in early August, although she had to wear a protective boot. That’s the most sought-after element to any great coaching-skater team.”. She competed against three-time U.S. national champion Ashley Wagner and former World Championship medalists Gabrielle Daleman of Canada, Satoko Miyahara of Japan, and Alena Leonova of Russia. She had the support of the Korean audience due to the Korean piece of music she used. One example that I want to discuss in more detail is Bradie Tennell’s 2019-20 ‘Mechanisms/Chronos’ where, despite all sassiness and playfulness of the main protagonist, one senses some degree of alienation and estrangement in the combination of this vocabulary of seduction with the mechanical and emotionless ‘tick-tock’ of Kirill Richter’s music. Despite not being able to bend her arm the previous morning, Tennell came in first place in the short program, over defending champion Alysa Liu and Mariah Bell. 2020 - All rights reserved, EXCLUSIVE: Trusova on skating with Hanyu and dealing with fame, Vincent Zhou exclusive: "I have so much more potential", Rika Kihira focusing on herself, not rivals, Every Alina Zagitova performance at the Olympic Games. Her goals for the following season was to perfect her double axel and return to junior Nationals. It would have been her third consecutive trip to Worlds, but the competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. After I watched it, my world changed forever. She is a 2018 Olympic team event bronze medalist, the 2020 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2018 CS Autumn Classic champion, the 2018 CS Golden Spin of Zagreb champion, and the 2018 U.S national champion. It was the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, and I watched these last two groups of ice dancers 1000 times — I am not kidding! [44] [46] [45] Tennell rebounded with a strong free skate, coming in ninth place. [98], Tennell and Mariah Bell were chosen to represent the U.S. women at the 2020 World Championships. But at the end, I realized I had too much passion for figure skating. In her short program, Tennell chose music from the 2014 film Lucy, a song called "Rebirth" performed by Hi-Finnesse and Egyptian-British singer Natacha Atlas. The five parts of the interview will guide its readers through different countries, different skaters, mentalities, and different issues pertaining to the figure skating world (and not only), thus hopefully providing a relatively fair account of incredible multifacedness and richness of Benoit Richaud’s choreography, as well as of his off-ice persona. For me as a choreographer, the opportunity to work with world-class skaters and with one of the best figure skating coaches ever — Alexei Mishin — was very important. [32], Tennell struggled throughout the season; 48 other skaters had higher season's-best scores than her, including seven from the U.S., and she earned 14 points less than the next-highest scoring female American skater. Tennell said later that she could not remember the last time she fell; she was the only skater at the Olympics who had not had a fall in previous competitions, and she had not fallen in the previous 34 jumping passes competed in four competitions earlier in the season. [51] Reporter Karen Rosen stated that Tennell competed "with an intensity" [55] missing from the previous season. You can like their work or not, but everything they do is very precise, because they work with their choreographers every day. In 2012, as a novice, she came in third place at both the Midwestern Sectionals and 2012 Upper Great Lakes Regionals. This makes everything much more interesting, because you can actually develop the athlete. Choreographers are not just creators of movement — in a way, they are also psychologists! And here I am a true son of my country, and I am proud of that. To wrap things up, I have two final questions for you. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance on the senior and junior levels. Yep, Bradie could have gotten less GOE and PCs, and Liza more. And I wanted people to feel something while watching this program, something very personal. Anna Stanislavovna Shcherbakova is a Russian figure skater. Two-time world junior champion Alexandra Trusova has already made a huge im... “The doors of my school are always open,” Plushenko said amidst the changes this year. I remember seeing one piece my Mats Ek called «Smoke», with one of my favorite female dancers, Sylvie Guillem. He does not need anything else. We need to see who has the ‘free spirit’ and who is more of a structured skater. She came in ninth place overall, with 192.35 points, [47] the highest placement among her American teammates. [22] [24], Tennell began the 2015–2016 season by coming in 11th place at the Junior Grand Prix Cup of Austria; she came in ninth place in the short program and 13th place in the free skate, earning a total of 124.54 points. But it does depend on the skater and on what is more comfortable for this skater to express music. Tennell, third-pace finisher Mariah Bell, and Ting Cui, who came in fifth place, were chosen to compete at the Four Continents Championships because Liu was not age-eligible to compete internationally. So, this is definitely a vision, a path. And then there was skating: it was a very small rink, and my coach there was terrible, but it was then when I discovered ice dance back in 2002. Karen Chen is a Taiwanese-American figure skater. The meaning comes post factum. You can captivate with a movement that has nothing beautiful about it — just with the movement itself. — You are absolutely right in your description, and it is closely related to what I just said. [48] After her performances, Tennell received a call from Peggy Fleming, and Scott Hamilton praised her for her mental toughness. — When I was very young, I had already been interested in the arts — partly because of my family, and because I was French. Her spins and footwork were given Level 4s. This is where ‘ironic distance’ becomes important, I believe…. The number of jumps, spins, the requirements for getting the highest levels in step sequences—practically every single step and turn of the skater is controlled by the judges. Tennell earned 73.79 points during her short program, the highest-scoring women's short program at U.S. Nationals up to that point.
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