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| Lorna Brown is a British and World Professional Ice Skating Champion and a World Olympic Coach |
Lorna Brown is a British and World Professional ice skating champion and a world and
Olympic figure skating coach. In this article, she gives some thoughts on figure skating
choreography, expression, and style.
I have passed through all the different progressions an ice skater can. I represented Great
Britain internationally at senior level then competed professionally, winning the World
Professional championships. I performed in all different kinds of ice shows as a principal
and studied classical and contemporary dance, and finally went into coaching and
choreography. I was National coach for Denmark and have taken skaters to many
internationals, Europeans, Worlds and Olympics.
I have choreographed for numerous national champions and am now here in Los Angeles.
The experiences I had working with John Curry's Company has left an everlasting
impression on my ideas about ice skating. I had the opportunity to be choreographed by
some of the worlds greatest and most memorable choreographers of all time, including
Robert Cohan and Peter Martins.
Here I would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of my ideas about how I
think about skating today. Everyone understands how many revolutions are required for a
jump or a spin etc. but how do you measure art?
From the beginning of a skater's career a skater should be building up a repertoire of
various kinds of steps and movements as well as jumps and spins.
It is so easy for a skater to become predictable and stereotyped. Especially now! We are
missing that personal individuality in the performances of today because it is all about
counting. Counting is distracting from quality.
When judges and the like are just adding up and counting then how can they grasp much
else with so little time to make up their minds to give an accurate mark?
There has to be a certain something extra to single out the performer!
It is easy to be average. You really have to work hard to achieve originality and to be
unique. Creative people use who they are and what they have learned and experienced to
inspire themselves to create new ideas. These people are individuals who are comfortable
with themselves but who also realize their imperfections and thrive on achieving
excellence. They continually search for new ideas by attending the ballet, shows, art
galleries and anything that will inspire them to develop themselves. It is those who dare to
be different who are remembered and who leave an everlasting impression. What is a good
program? It is one you will never be able to forget because it was "unique"! Every
performance should be like a finely tuned instrument in perfect pitch but of course
perfection is always infinite....
To read more....
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Olympic figure skating coach. In this article, she gives some thoughts on figure skating
choreography, expression, and style.
I have passed through all the different progressions an ice skater can. I represented Great
Britain internationally at senior level then competed professionally, winning the World
Professional championships. I performed in all different kinds of ice shows as a principal
and studied classical and contemporary dance, and finally went into coaching and
choreography. I was National coach for Denmark and have taken skaters to many
internationals, Europeans, Worlds and Olympics.
I have choreographed for numerous national champions and am now here in Los Angeles.
The experiences I had working with John Curry's Company has left an everlasting
impression on my ideas about ice skating. I had the opportunity to be choreographed by
some of the worlds greatest and most memorable choreographers of all time, including
Robert Cohan and Peter Martins.
Here I would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of my ideas about how I
think about skating today. Everyone understands how many revolutions are required for a
jump or a spin etc. but how do you measure art?
From the beginning of a skater's career a skater should be building up a repertoire of
various kinds of steps and movements as well as jumps and spins.
It is so easy for a skater to become predictable and stereotyped. Especially now! We are
missing that personal individuality in the performances of today because it is all about
counting. Counting is distracting from quality.
When judges and the like are just adding up and counting then how can they grasp much
else with so little time to make up their minds to give an accurate mark?
There has to be a certain something extra to single out the performer!
It is easy to be average. You really have to work hard to achieve originality and to be
unique. Creative people use who they are and what they have learned and experienced to
inspire themselves to create new ideas. These people are individuals who are comfortable
with themselves but who also realize their imperfections and thrive on achieving
excellence. They continually search for new ideas by attending the ballet, shows, art
galleries and anything that will inspire them to develop themselves. It is those who dare to
be different who are remembered and who leave an everlasting impression. What is a good
program? It is one you will never be able to forget because it was "unique"! Every
performance should be like a finely tuned instrument in perfect pitch but of course
perfection is always infinite....
To read more....
(Click Here for Web Site Link of article)
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| Music to skate to: Ice-skating champion Lorna Brown choreographs Rosemary Duxbury's music http://www.rosemaryduxbury.com/News11.htm |
