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herkind |
Ice Skating to Les MisI don't know how many of you noticed the French ice dance team Pechelat and Bourzat skating to Les Mis in the last Olympics. My head almost exploded from the cross-fandom. http://youtube.com/watchv=9rewdy_g4oQAnyway, a US pairs team Tiffany Vise and Derek Trent is also using Les Mis music this season. I actually hadn't seem them skate but saw a picture of them online and thought "That looks like an Enjy vest; are they skating to Les Mis?" It turns out they are. Here's a video of their program (at the French event Trophee Bombard no less): http://youtube.com/watch?v=6mos0eDUZ3g Michelle Kwan also skated to On My Own several years ago: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eqWtW3gIhZo Skating and Les Mis together make me insanely happy. |
Fantine |
I knew about the other two but not about the recent skating pair. That enjy vest looks drool-a-licious. |
Colle |
The music of "Les Miserables" is a poplar choice among figure skaters to use for a program. Michelle Kwan's "On My Own" is one of my favorite exhibition programs of hers. I love it when figure skaters use musical theater music, it combines two things I enjoy. Edited to add a link to another one of my favorite Les Mis skating programs. This is Nicole Bobek at the 1993 U.S. Nationals. She didn't skate the program prefectly, but I would have put her on the world team that year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7arvvOxOWw |
herkind |
Oh thanks for that! I knew Kurt Browning and Todd Eldredge had also used Les Mis but I didn't know that Nicole used it too! I love her; she has such charisma on the ice. |