I think it's very very difficult to capture the essence of the music especially when skaters use Ravel's Bolero because the music's repetitive throughout and it's easily to just skate the same throughout without showing a contrast in speed and style.
2007-02-03 13:03:46 · 3 answers · asked by xander 5 in Sports ➔ Winter Sports ➔ Ice Skating
Torvill and Dean from the GBR did it in the '84 Sarajevo Winter Olympics. But Ravel's Bolero is hard for the common viewer to follow unless the skater(s) can really intepret the music to that level of Torvill and Dean (which the comentators will always compare to whenever that music is chosen by a skater).
2007-02-03 13:21:03 · update #1
Bolero is definitely overused, and you are correct, it is always compared to Torvill and Dean's program....which was awesome. I was about 10 or 11 at the time, and remember watching it. Amazing.
2007-02-03 15:38:34 · answer #1 · answered by nerdy girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Carmen is overused, however, there are many different selctions for Carmen that one can choose so it's fine. I disagree about Bolero because the music might be repetive, but any program is not easy to skate, and one can show a great deal of style with Bolero. Bolero in fact can become a very artistic program; one pairs team skated to it in the Olympics, and they received all 6.0s for presentation on it under the old system.
2007-02-03 21:14:55 · answer #2 · answered by hiyas123 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that they're way overused, but I still don't mind hearing them. I've heard Carmen a lot, but when Evan Lysacek skated to it at Nationals, I forgot about that and just watched his amazing skating.
2007-02-03 22:21:41 · answer #3 · answered by scarlettaCAT 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋