#juulia turkkila

[wanderlustinwonderland18]

NUMBERS ARE JUST NUMBERS, BUT BRILLIANT ART LIVES FOREVER!

SO PROUD OF JUULIA & MATTHIAS!

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[denissvasiljevs1999]

From Satoko's post

[shikoos]

A new interview from Turkkila/Versluis with program announcements! Since it's in Finnish, I have translated the highlights below:

They skated in L’Apprenti Sorcier in Champery as the only ice dancers. How this came to be: last year Matthias edited the music for Deniss’s free program, and this year he was asked to edit music for about ten of Lambiel’s students. This brought them into contact with Lambiel, and he asked them to participate in the ice show.

They were amazed by all the Japanese fans at the show and skating to live piano was an amazing experience.

They learned new choreography in Rome in early May, and attended a camp in Czechia for five weeks in July.

Rhythm dance: they chose 60's music since they thought that disco would be too popular. They have an unnamed ”jive-style song” combined with ”I got you” by James Brown for music. Juulia: ”We wanted to have music that the audience will recognise and which has a high level of energy. There’s no slow parts in our rhythm dance, which makes it difficult (to perform).”

Free dance: Music is the tango ”La Rubia Mirella”, which is based on a true story. They had an Argentinian tango dancer teach them, both off and on the ice. Juulia will play the role of a woman who is initially strong, but ends up being used/abused by men. Matthias will play an antagonistic role. Matthias: ”The beginning is softer, but the ending is strong. We want to show that we can (also) be strong and fast.”

This season their goal is the GP final and good ranking points for the Olympic season, to skate in the last group (perhaps? I didn’t quite understand this part).

Juulia: ”We want to bring something different from the past few seasons, though we will of course (also) use our old strong points. We are working on a new combo lift for the free dance and the choreographic elements will differ from previous ones, since we want to show the passion of the tango.”

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Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis skating to Phoria for their free dance at the 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy, 2023 Grand Prix of Espoo and 2024 Worlds.

(Sources: 1, 2 and 3)

[allekha]

Turkkila and Versluis in their free dance at Worlds 2024

[lancernolancing]

Worlds 2024 | Free Dance | Group 3 Album

[erinaonice]

so this article (helsingin sanomat 19.3.2024) interviews juulia turkkila and matthias versluis on some changes that they've made to their free dance as well as talks about matthias's side hustle as a music editor (summarized and translated by yours truly)

an assisted lift in the free dance step sequence was over the allowed 3.10 seconds by 0.1 seconds and led to juulia and matthias lose the fifth place by 0.07 points

as such they edited the overly long move out of the program.

"we changed the move so we don't make the same mistake, not taking unnecessary risks," says turkkila at pirkkola ice rink, where she and versluis prepare for the worlds

turkkila and versluis arrived to toronto, canada, early on to recover from jet lag and to polish their programs. their rink mates there are the canadian piper gilles and paul poirier

on music: versluis plays the guitar and knows how to edit music, so he has arranged the pair's rhythm dance medley

"we're on version 15 now," versluis laughs

versluis has arranged music to other skaters as well, like a finnish synchronized skating team and the latvian deniss vasiljevs (!!)

vasiljevs premiers a new free program in the worlds with music arranged by versluis

"a request came from deniss. arranging is a bit of a side hustle, I get small compensations from it," tells versluis

in montreal turkkila and versluis compete for the fifth time on worlds level. a year ago the pair was ninth. the placement brought finland a second spot in ice dance, represented by world championships first-timers yuka orihara and juho pirinen, who were tenth in europeans

[leahthedreamer]

Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis (FIN) RD Rebelado, Wicked Game, Banto || ISU European Championships 2023

[taffetastrology]

The signs as costumes from the 2023 World Figure Skating Championships

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

[wanderlustinwonderland18]

Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis

2023 Grand Prix Espoo - Free Dance

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[shikoos]

Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis free dance at Budapest Trophy 2024 (116.67)

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Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis skating to a Taylor Dayne medley at the 2024 World Championships and 2024 European Championships.

(Sources: Wilma Alberti and Ester Ayerdi Photography)

[dozydawn]

Juulia Turkkila and Matthias Versluis Rhythm Dance, 2023. Photographed by Joosep Martinson.

[incorrectfigureskatingopinions]

Marvelous mesmerizing amazing spellbinding

[hehkuvamyyhapero]

JUULIA TURKKILA MATTHIAS VERSLUIS EUROOPANMESTARUUSKISOJEN PRONSSIMITALISTIT 2023