Friday, September 3, 2010

Writing and Skating...Not so Different afterall

A lot of time and thought goes into creating a finished piece of writing. It starts with an idea, and then the idea has to be taken to the next level and interpreted into words. When first put into words, its rough, unpolished; there is much room for changes and rearranging to make it your own and the best that it can be. These adjustments aren't going to acheived by revising just once, or even twice. It takes many drafts of writing to get it perfectly how you envisioned. You need to be flexible and open about the revisions you make; you need to see what fitting and what isn't. After that process is done, the writing has come a long way since that intial draft and is perfected to be the writers own.

Creating a program for figure skating is a very similar process to writing. When a choreographer listens to a piece of music, they get an idea that they want the skater to convey when he or she skates the program. So the choreographer finds a way to transfer their ideas into movements. Depending on the skater's abilities and style of skating, the intial program the choreographer comes up with is going to have to be tweaked and adjusted, most likely more than once. The skater needs to be comfortable skating the program, and its going to take some work by the choreographer to achieve that yet keep their intial envisionment of what they wanted the program to look like. After multiple changes, the program is in its best form.

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