Skating Moments #11
May. 28th, 2012 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helsinkibabyKurt Browning skates to "Singing in the Rain"
This is from Kurt's special You Must Remember This, which really is a skating moment all on its own but I'm trying to pick one. The reason I'm linking this (and I hope I am, my YouTube flash plugin is being floopy tonight) is that aside from the fact that Kurt Browning is one of the best skaters on the planet (Skate God for Life, according to Scott Hamilton!) and one of my favourites, he's also one of the best who never won an Olympic medal of any colour. (If not the best. I'm blanking on any others who never got a medal; the Michelle Kwans of this world did, just not the gold.) For all that, he was beloved among skating fans and this is one of the reasons why -- there will be more in the hundred!
If you've seen the film Singing in the Rain (and if you haven't, I may YouTube the scene in question) you'll know how closely this resembles the original. It's dance on ice at its finest, and Gene Kelly would be proud!
This is from Kurt's special You Must Remember This, which really is a skating moment all on its own but I'm trying to pick one. The reason I'm linking this (and I hope I am, my YouTube flash plugin is being floopy tonight) is that aside from the fact that Kurt Browning is one of the best skaters on the planet (Skate God for Life, according to Scott Hamilton!) and one of my favourites, he's also one of the best who never won an Olympic medal of any colour. (If not the best. I'm blanking on any others who never got a medal; the Michelle Kwans of this world did, just not the gold.) For all that, he was beloved among skating fans and this is one of the reasons why -- there will be more in the hundred!
If you've seen the film Singing in the Rain (and if you haven't, I may YouTube the scene in question) you'll know how closely this resembles the original. It's dance on ice at its finest, and Gene Kelly would be proud!
