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These past years, couples who tried to be more innovative with intricate choreographies, I’m thinking of Crone & Poirier for instance, were not rewarded. The difficulty of the sequences in their programme was phenomenal. It was Christopher Dean’s work, in his own way, i.e. without pause, without logical or easy impetus. And they lost some of their elements qualities. When you have excellent skaters, you can always try, but it’s a risk. Today, even the very best don’t take this risk. I’m not saying it is easy. On the contrary, what they are doing is very difficult, but there is no risk taken in the interpretation. What is physically taxing, is the interpretation. I’m not talking of expression, but of interpreting new things, through new body movements.
I admit that Virtue/Moir and Davis/White are fantastic. Technically, what they manage to do is incredible. OK, it’s the North-American style, you like it or you don’t. Add to that they are North-Americans coached by Russians, and you can’t expect a contemporary, innovative approach (from them)…