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Jedi
Not much happening in competition world these these days, with the world on lockdown and the winter holidays lull, except for Russia's national figure skating championship, which is kind of a big deal, like their annual Super-Bowl and nothing could hold it off. This year the five-day event (Dec 23-27) was hosted in Chelyabinsk (of the meteorite impact fame, some 1100-miles SE of Moscow) - and in spite of all the corona logistics nightmare, nothing could stop the organizers from putting up a good show with live audience
, unparalleled artistry as usual, and no lack of drama with the defending champion Anna Shcherbakova recovering after an illness of pneumonia/covid and winning her third title by technical score, tears and tiaras all over. The pairs competition was also no short of spectacular in skills and artistic level. They even had a live Youtube broadcast with English commentators for the world wide viewers, on the main TV channel as in the below video.
It's the runner-up however, in the singles' women competition, Kamila Valyeva, that was nothing short of mesmerizing. Now, you may not be into figure-skating - it does take some eye to distill something spectacular from a well-practiced routine or amateurish act like the quality of the jumps, smooth transition and amplitude, plus a certain spark that cannot repeat or be replicated, as in general with every skill or artistry. However, I challenge everyone, take a few minutes and watch this young lady's performance end-to-end: her demeanor, coordination, self-confidence, crescendo buildup and continuum in perfect harmony with every note of the musical tune at all time, and ponder for a moment if there's anything else that could be added to it or that communicates 'all is well' better than that. Tip: pay special attention to her arms movement.
I remembered Richard Heath on the Harmonic origins of the world, who digs deep into Pythagoreans and the measurements of creation and comes to the conclusion that that every act of creation or cycle had at origins a harmonic countenance or (re)alignment with the physical universe and, and that's where the beauty comes from:
"Whenever civilizations fall they pass on information. When megalithic astronomy died, it bequeathed the idea that the planets were gods related to the moon through musical harmony, also leaving the ancient world its metrology. When temples were built or stories to the planetary gods passed on, these could express musical numbers as ratios and lengths within architecture, iconography, and myth. In classical Greece, the power of writing had won over the oral world whereupon Athens enshrined musical harmony in the Parthenon and in Plato’s writings about the ancient tradition of musical tuning theory".
There's one more way harmony finds expression in us humans that binds together time and gravity in motion, we've always had it and is never antiquated: dance.
And the English-commented version, not embeddable:
, unparalleled artistry as usual, and no lack of drama with the defending champion Anna Shcherbakova recovering after an illness of pneumonia/covid and winning her third title by technical score, tears and tiaras all over. The pairs competition was also no short of spectacular in skills and artistic level. They even had a live Youtube broadcast with English commentators for the world wide viewers, on the main TV channel as in the below video.It's the runner-up however, in the singles' women competition, Kamila Valyeva, that was nothing short of mesmerizing. Now, you may not be into figure-skating - it does take some eye to distill something spectacular from a well-practiced routine or amateurish act like the quality of the jumps, smooth transition and amplitude, plus a certain spark that cannot repeat or be replicated, as in general with every skill or artistry. However, I challenge everyone, take a few minutes and watch this young lady's performance end-to-end: her demeanor, coordination, self-confidence, crescendo buildup and continuum in perfect harmony with every note of the musical tune at all time, and ponder for a moment if there's anything else that could be added to it or that communicates 'all is well' better than that. Tip: pay special attention to her arms movement.
I remembered Richard Heath on the Harmonic origins of the world, who digs deep into Pythagoreans and the measurements of creation and comes to the conclusion that that every act of creation or cycle had at origins a harmonic countenance or (re)alignment with the physical universe and, and that's where the beauty comes from:
"Whenever civilizations fall they pass on information. When megalithic astronomy died, it bequeathed the idea that the planets were gods related to the moon through musical harmony, also leaving the ancient world its metrology. When temples were built or stories to the planetary gods passed on, these could express musical numbers as ratios and lengths within architecture, iconography, and myth. In classical Greece, the power of writing had won over the oral world whereupon Athens enshrined musical harmony in the Parthenon and in Plato’s writings about the ancient tradition of musical tuning theory".
There's one more way harmony finds expression in us humans that binds together time and gravity in motion, we've always had it and is never antiquated: dance.
And the English-commented version, not embeddable:
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https://youtu.be/0_KhxKAhRQE?t=8876
