Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen: Madonna Medley | Montreal 2024
no commentary version (performance only, no kiss and cry)
choreography: Massimo Scali, Luca Lanotte, Nicolò Tacchetto, Sini Parkkinen
In the mixed zone Yuka Orihara said it was her favourite version of this program (x).
Yuka Orihara and Juho Pirinen of Finland have a really awesome free dance! This level of performance and camp and really dynamic skating and well... dynamics on the ice is what makes ice dancing interesting. I’m going to have to keep an eye on these two!
I have watched the Finland Grand Prix event and I have A Lot of feelings
I was hugging my knitting and trying not to cry over how good Kevin Aymoz’s skating is and how happy he was about it, and then the commentator said it was based on the Song of Achilles, and also there was a big rainbow flag in the audience, and then he got the bronze medal and was even happier. What is a simple gay to do with all of these emotions
An essential part of ice dance is falling instantly and deeply in love with a team I’ve never seen in my life who have no chance of even getting into the top six. Anyway, Lagouge/Caffa are my new favorites and their Pink program was glorious.
All the others are also my favorites. I just really like ice dance and there were so many good free programs. Orihara/Pirinen did one where a siren attracts a sailor and then they fight and then she kills him! It’s so good! Wang/Liu did Batman. Ice dance is the best sport.
The Gilles/Poirier Evita routine didn’t do it for me at Skate Canada but that has changed, it’s perfect in every way, especially the waltz bit.
Valtter Virtanen getting a personal best when he’s 35 is very good! The fact that Finnish audiences love him so much is also very good!
TWO GP WINS FOR MAI MIHARA
This is not all of the feelings. There are too many of them.
Yuka Orihara / Juho Pirinen: Madonna Medley | Montreal 2024
choreography: Massimo Scali, Luca Lanotte, Nicolò Tacchetto, Sini Parkkinen
This was the pair's debut at World Championships.
Orihara and Pirinen on their goals in skating (for Europe on Ice):
J: “Of course, everybody wants to be world champion. <...> Of course, we want medals, and go as high as we can and I think we have the potential to do it.”
Y: “I also know that it’s not everything about the results”.
J: “Our coach Maurizio says that we are able to entertain the audience so that’s our strong side. One goal would be that we want to be remembered by the audience because there are champions that the audience doesn’t remember and then there are couples or skaters who were not champions, but they still are remembered because they were something special. I think that’s something special we want too.”