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you say too late to start, with your heart in a headlock

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2009 The Great Gig in the Sky

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Satoko Miyahara: Solo Pa'Bailarla » 2024 Fantasy on Ice: Makuhari

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45 years ago today, John Curry skated a gorgeous free skate at the 1976 Olympics and won gold, on the heels of winning the European Championships and on his way to capturing the world title less than a month later.

In this program, Curry combined his dance training and love of ballet with (for his time) solid technical skills in jumps and spins. The choreography is both elegant and lighthearted. Each extension and movement is finished and flows from one to the next; he constantly creates lovely lines. There isn’t an empty moment in the program, and even his crossovers are timed perfectly to the music.

He deliberately slowed down his spins, preferring instead to emphasize his control over them and the beautiful positions he could make. He also demonstrated his ability to spin in both directions in two of them. All of the spins are a showcase, never an afterthought.

It was a complete package of both athletic jumps - including a double axel in the last few seconds of his five-minute program - and graceful artistry, combined with Curry’s abilities in school figures that helped him flow over the ice. And like all the best skating, it looks completely effortless.

After his Olympic victory, Curry was apparently pressed by journalists who wanted to drama-monger about the fact that he was gay. (Sources are all over the place as to whether he was outed or had some amount of volition in coming out, and whether this information was public before the Games or only after he won.) Curry said much later that he never attempted to hide his sexuality.

He retired from amateur skating to create his own ice theater for a time, performing stunning solo and pair programs and working with future coaches and choreographers, such as Lori Nichol. He later danced on stage as well. Unfortunately, after watching his ‘whole circle of friends’ die to AIDS, Curry passed away in 1994 due to complications of the disease.

But let’s end on a happier moment: after skating this amazing program, before he picked up his flowers, before he bowed to the judges, John Curry looked up into the audience, smiled, and waved at his mom.

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Do u think that tessa will go back to skating stuff like coaching or shows once morgan retires from hockey

No. She is done for good. And good for her- i’d hate to see her go back to shows, doing subpar skating and wearing silly costumes. She left her career at her best and for the best there has ever been that’s the way she deserves to be remembered.

Coaching, probably not as a full-time gog, she would drop in occasionally, but skating was never really her passion in life. It was a place to channel her love of dance, competitiveness, perfectionism, and she was lucky enough to have a partner to share all that with. She is satisfied and can leave that behind and find new ways to challenge herself. She wants to redefine herself not-to run away from her skating career, but so she is not perpetually defined by it. She’s a multi-talented human with so much to offer the world, it would be a shame to only give that to the insulated skating world.

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“Well I always knew that Scott was a fantastic skater. The way his blade moves on the ice, the glide, the flow of it. His passion for kind of the artistic flare and expression, everything just comes so naturally to Scott.”

– Tessa (2010) / QTV Interview

(x) 2017 Worlds SD Practice vid

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With this foot I thee worship…

(sorry for the feet fetish, it’s a dancer thing)

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Obviously the costumes tell you how long it’s taken me to finish this. Done in coloured pencil. Photo inspiration: Danielle Earl Photography :) Apologies for the photo - my scanner was misbehaving..

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everyone is watching jnats and im watching this

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Walter is my cousin’s dog. He really has a thing for swimming.

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