EPIC FRENCH BROMANCES
Absolute Skating recently did an interview with Luxembourg skater Fleur Maxwell - you might remember her from Torino. She took a three year break from competition after the Olympics, but came back last year, and you might want to pay more attention to her next season....
Important bits from the interview:
WORKING WITH STÉPHANE NEXT SEASON
I really love my music and I think I can make the programs work so much more, so I’m going to keep them. Ari chose my short program. And Peer Gynt for my long program is quite good because everyone knows it and claps to it, but I haven’t really shown it, so that’s why I’m going to keep it for next season and just rework it. Stéphane Lambiel will help me with my short program, we will change it and make it more interesting...
Yes, I will work with Stéphane and also another choreographer. With Stéphane we want to rework the short and also do a show program. We will hopefully spend a week or two in Zürich together, maybe at the end of May. Hopefully I’ll see him more during the season as well. I’m really looking forward to working with him, I just love watching him and I have so much to learn from him. Stéphane is an incredible skater, he is a great friend and a wonderful person, so I’m really honoured that he wants to work with me. ... It was great to perform with him recently. When he skates, there’s this silence. It’s just magical. It’s almost like people first need to take in what he did before they can clap.
I love doing show programs, I want to do something really different for next season...So it’s going to be something completely different and interesting, along the lines of Dita von Teese maybe, but less, how can I say… naked
BEING IN ART ON ICE AND KOI
It was like a long party, everybody was so relaxed, a great atmosphere. Stéphane and Florent were my family on tour and Ari’s been like a real father to me. Denis is not only a great skater but he’s so funny, as is Edvin. The same is true for Florent and he’s such a showman. It’s going to be so exciting next season in the men’s event.
I’m actually seeing Stéphane and Florent tomorrow. It’s Florent’s birthday and we all got very close during the tour. So we’re going to surprise him and go to Paris tomorrow. We’ll have dinner together and then go to this party and surprise him.
A SURPRISE PARTY FOR FLORENT OH MY HEART~~
Whole thing is on
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