#Olivier Schoenfelder

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Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder's cancan costumes at the 2010 Olympics. It's all about the skirt.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)

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Isabelle Delobel & Olivier Schoenfelder, Carnival in Venice FD, Euros 2006 [x]

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Worlds 2004

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[theothercourse]

My incredible Maizie!!!

I don’t know when you sent this message. I’m so sorry to have missed it. I’ve not been on tumblr in a very long time, and I don’t check in like I used to.

Thank you for your endless support of Tom and Kristiane! Honestly this has touched me a great deal. I’m really touched that you still read them. I miss writing them terribly. I miss writing terribly. I’ve been wanting desperately to pick it back up, but I’ve lost my inspiration for it... and I just don’t know where or when or what to write. 

I thought a lot of Tom and Kristiane while the Tonys were on, and on my trips into the city to revisit Broadway now that its back. In my head, during Down with Love, both Tom and Kristiane were nominated for Oliviers during the same season. I never made it as far as writing them back in New York. 

When Betrayal ran on Broadway, it was the house next door to where some of the scenes in Down with Love took place. One of my favorite Broadway theatres is the Schoenfeld, which shares a stage door with the Bernard Jacobs Theatre - one of the reasons I put Kristiane in that theatre a lot.

I miss you tons, Maizie! I’m really so touched that you reached to me. It’s been a minute...

<3 you!!

- Kris

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I don’t follow you long enough to know this so sorry if it’s old news, but what do you think about vm 2nd place in 2008 worlds? Should’ve been first?? Got lowballed in the cd?

No worries, nonny, it is not old news at all!

I think they 100% deserved the silver, but it makes total sense why they didn’t win the gold.

 I don’t actually think they were low-balled in the compulsory, I think that Delobel and Schoenfelder were over scored in their compulsory to give them a bit of an edge. They hadn’t won worlds yet and were a team that had been at the top for a while, vm were only second year seniors, D/S got bronze at the gpf and vm were 4th earlier in the season, D/S were the European champions the year before and silver in 08′, etc. 

Plus, vm had that twizzle mistake in the original dance that put them too far behind, but they came back and won the free dance, which they absolutely deserved. It goes without saying that Tessa and Scott were/are better skaters than Isabelle and Olivier, they couldn’t twizzle to save their lives, and were quite clunky, grew up in a pre-IJS ice dance world, etc. -- but they had the experience and “interesting” programs and the seniority. 

And that’s the way the cookie crumbles...

But...fast forward two seasons, Tessa and Scott win the Olympics and D/S are 6th...so..... :)

[icedanceupstarts]

Internationaux de France 2019 Preview

Another week, another GP, another preview from your hardworking mods! Ice dance is full of mysteries, and we have a lot of pressing questions. What will the trophies look like this time? Will Papadakis/Cizeron completely break the scoring system on their first try, or will this be more of a warm-up where they only mostly break it? Will we ever understand how the judges are coming up with the numbers they’re putting out there? Stay tuned!

Carolane Soucisse/ Shane Firus CAN

Age: 24/26

Started Skating Together: 2016

Coach: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Season's Best: 181.39

Rhythm Dance: Jersey Boys

Free Dance: Tom Jones Medley

Ah, Soucisse/Firus. So much talent, so little ability to stay upright. We fell in love with these two last season(while they mostly just fell), and are hoping that they've finally gotten the jitters out of their system. They have really strong basics and a classy retro sort of vibe that no one else is bringing to the table. They're more versatile performers than they're generally given credit for, but this year's programs are definitely solidly in their wheelhouse. They have such a lovely lightness to their skating that they still manage to marry with power, which is a tricky balance to hit. They're still working on nailing the precision, having struggled with the levels on their pattern thus far, but their rhythm dance is generally a delight and ends with a fantastic stationary lift that thumbs it's nose at the concept of gravity. Their free dance is quite nice, moving seamlessly from cute and bouncy to slinky blues to sharp, flirtatious sass without ever once seeming disjointed or like they don't know what they're skating to. Some of that's editing, to be sure, but a lot of it comes down to their performance and movement making each section feel distinct yet connected and part of the whole. If Soucisse/Firus can remain in an upright position, tighten up their levels, and generally execute at the level they're capable of but often struggle to reach, they could have a very good placement. A strong result and score will help them a lot in their quest to get the bronze at Nationals and make it back to the championship events.

Marie-Jade Lauriault/ Romain Le Gac FRA

Age: 22/24

Started Skating Together: 2014

Coach: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Season's Best: 182.91

Rhythm Dance: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Free Dance: Harmonium Medley

Les Marrieds are back for their second grand prix assignment and looking for redemption after their subpar Skate America performances. They're a solid, midtier team but, while they’re still the ones with experience together working to their advantage, French ice dance is steadily growing and they may be feeling the heat. They have some great elements, especially their showstopping lifts, but they also have a tendency to be a bit inconsistent and their small errors can really add up like at their first event this season. On their home turf would be a great time to turn things around and really show off what they can do. Their lighter take on a musical rhythm dance can definitely help them stand out and good performances here in both programs can go a long way in setting them up for the rest of the season.

Gabriella Papadakis/ Guillaume Cizeron FRA

Age: 24/24

Started Skating Together: 2005

Coach: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Personal Best: 223.13

Rhythm Dance: Fame

Free Dance: Find Me

Look, you already know who this is. Four time and reigning World champions and Olympic silver medalists, five time European Champions etc etc etc, and the probable winners of this event assuming one of them doesn't snap a bootlace or something. And well, even then. Their rhythm dance is the real surprise this year,  a fun, campy, aerobics number that shows a completely different side of their skating. The beginning is especially strong, really giving us the feeling that we're watching two dancers warming up. At French Master's you could tell that this program still needed mileage, but they've had time to polish things up and tighten up their rotational lift to really utilize the music. When we heard that Papadakis/Cizeron would be performing to a spoken word poem for the free dance, it initially felt like a concept that verged on self-parody, but it actually works pretty well? It's not to our taste but Papadakis/Cizeron wring out every ounce of emotion that exists in this actually pretty mediocre poem, and create a few more besides, telling a story and really embodying the music. For these two it's less of a question if they'll win this event or make GPF(yes to both, if you couldn't guess) and more of if they'll manage to break the scoring system by the end of the season and keep the current space between them and the rest of the field.

Julia Wagret/ Pierre Souquet-Basiege FRA

Age: 20/25

Started Skating Together: 2018

Coach: Muriel Zazoui, Olivier Schoenfelder

Season's Best: 171.31

Rhythm Dance: Singing in the Rain

Free Dance: Benjamin Clementine Medley

The host pick is always a great opportunity for teams who don't yet have the ability to earn a GP spot on their own, and this should extend to these two. Unfortunately we don't have links for their programs for this season, but they've been working hard and improving steadily over the course of the challenger season, although who knows what scores mean anymore. Obviously not every team on the Grand Prix is coming into their event hoping to medal, but they will be looking to make the most of their GP debut by putting out solid performances and gaining valuable competitive experience.

Charlene Guignard/ Marco Fabbri ITA

Age: 30/31

Started Skating Together: 2010

Coach: Barbara Fusar-Poli

Season's Best: 202.10

Rhythm Dance: Selections from Paramour and Honeymoon in Vegas: The Musical

Free Dance: Space Oddity

Guignard/Fabbri are a solid team that perhaps embodies the proverbial tortoise. Slow and steady wins the race, or at least the bronze. They're one of the older teams in the field, and have had a long, slow climb since 2010, but their steady improvements and hard work lead them to a GPF and Euros bronze last season, as well as some hard won fandom acclaim. Where some other top teams will sometimes show up looking slow or underprepared or take months to get a handle on their programs, Guignard/Fabbri manage to upgrade and get better every year while always seeming in control and well trained, even this early in the season. Their rhythm dance is a very traditional, classic Broadway number that isn't a showy as some of their competitors, but plays to their strengths as a team. Their free dance is to a cover of Space Oddity we're not entirely sure we can condone, but it's an unexpected and out of the box take nonetheless. They have some great elements like their upright stationary lift, and they've had plenty of time to develop since Lombardia. Let's be honest, they're fighting for silver against Chock/Bates here, and consequently this result will likely make or break their qualification to GPF. Guignard/Fabbri at least have the fact that they have no domestic competition to cushion them if they fail to make it, but if they want to keep making their way up the ranks, GPF may be key.

Allison Reed/ Saulius Ambrulevicius

Age: 25/27

Started Skating Together: 2017

Coach: Marina Zueva

Season's Best: 180.13

Rhythm Dance: Bandstand 

Free Dance: Aurora Medley

We still don't know what a score is, but Reed/Ambrulevicius have been getting some good ones, and with their two grand prix assignments they've got a lot of opportunities to make an impact. They picked up this assignment late as subs but have already started their season off with plenty of competitive experience. Their rhythm dance is super cute, and featuring non-Bonnie and Clyde Laura Osnes vocals, it’s just a nice, pleasant experience. We're still unsure if it's 73 points worth of pleasantness, but what is score? It's very light, traditional fare, with a nice amount of danceyness to it and great, bubbly characterization from both. The free dance is kind of interesting, a modern and contemporary program which is a great contrast for their rhythm dance and different than what we are seeing from most other teams. If they can keep building on their Challenger results, they could make an impact in this field.

Natalia Kaliszek/ Maksym Spodyriev POL

Age: 23/25

Started Skating Together: 2014

Coach: Sylwia Nowak-Trebacka

Season's Best: 185.48

Rhythm Dance: Kinky Boots

Free Dance: Dirty Dancing redux

Kaliszek/Spodyriev are coming off their best ever season, with a top 5 finish at Euros and an 11th place at worlds. They can sometimes be slow starters to the season but rally for a strong finish by the important competitions. Their rhythm dance is just really delightful. They've always been slightly offbeat performers, making their programs work with commitment and their strong chemistry and this season is no different. Natalia also has best boot covers in skating in this program. They're bringing back an updated version of their fan favorite Dirty Dancing FD from a few years back, and you can see how much stronger they are as skaters and performers. The audience loved this program three years ago, and judging by the response you're all going to love the updated version this season. Kaliszek/Spodyriev got off to something of a late start to the season due to injury, so this may or may not be a great outing for them, but they always make large strides throughout the season regardless. Even if this weekend's performances are marred by bobbles, they're still one of the most entertaining teams around.

Tiffani Zagorski/Jonathan Guerreiro RUS

Age: 25/28

Started Skating Together: 2014

Coach: Svetlana Alexeeva, Elena Kustarova, Olga Ryabinina

Season's Best: 181.82

Rhythm Dance: The Greatest Showman

Free Dance: Survivor

Zagorski/Guerreiro had their season debut two weeks ago, but it didn't go as well as they might have hoped. What is score even, but they were undoubtedly hoping to place higher after medaling at both of their events last season and qualifying for the GPF. This season, their second GP event goals are going to be all about improving on their scores and setting themselves up as competitive with the teams who will be looking to finish in the top ten at Worlds, if they can claim that third Russian spot later this season. While they were able to perform at the test skates, Skate America was their first competition of the season and they may still have been a little rusty, especially as they're coming off of injury. Two weeks isn't a whole lot of time, but we've seen faster turnarounds. They're a striking team that uses their long lines to great effect, and their free dance is a good show of their strengths. The Russian dance field is deep and full of talent, but their performances and results here will be crucial in getting back on that world team.

Olivia Smart/ Adrian Diaz ESP

Age: 22/29

Started Skating Together: 2016

Coach:  Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Season's Best: 191.01

Rhythm Dance: Grease

Free Dance: Sad Clown Love Story

Somehow that free dance title is not a bit of gentle snark but the actual, intended program concept? Ice dance is truly wild. Their pre-GP season had some stumbles but they had an extremely strong set of performances at Skate America, coming fourth and achieving a new personal best. Their rhythm dance was especially strong, fun and dynamic and perfectly suited to their strengths as a team. While we remain unsold on their free dance, from concept to construction to execution, they've been scoring well with it when they execute their admittedly impressive technical content. The judges are mostly responding well to it thus far, although with the rollercoaster that scoring has been, who knows? Fortunately the Spanish dance battle will once again have Europeans to take into consideration for the Worlds spot decision, but either team taking the national title into that event will be big and Smart/Diaz have certainly brought their best to the GP thus far. Another good finish here will send a strong message of just who is the top Spanish team.

Madison Chock/ Evan Bates USA

Age: 27/30

Started Skating Together: 2011

Coach: Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, Romain Haguenauer

Season's Best: 202.40

Rhythm Dance: Too Darn Hot

Free Dance: Snake Charmer

Chock/Bates have had an interesting career. From the world silver medal in just their fourth season together, to their steady slide down the ranks the rest of the quad, to changing coaches, to missing the first half of last season to surgery, and then rebounding to win their first 4CC title, it's been quite a ride. A number of people were highly skeptical of their move to Gadbois, but it's done them a lot of good. There's a softness and a breeziness to their skating now, and their new coaches have generally spruced them up without taking away the things that have always been great about them-- their lifts, their speed, their expressiveness. They're the first team this season to earn a level 4 on the Finnstep, with a lightness, speed, and precision thus far unmatched. While they had some tech issues at Finlandia, their GOE and PCS remain very high and competitive even when they're getting their choreographic steps invalidated. Opinions are pretty split on their somewhat controversial free dance, and honestly we could do with considerably fewer Obligatory Egyptian Hands(or like, none?), but the judges have thus far responded well to their expression, intricacy, body shaping, and let's not forget their incredible lifts. They've had a few weeks to smooth out their remaining rough patches and shore up their tech in order to make GPF after a year away. The gold is likely out of reach unless something truly exceptional happens, but beating Guignard/Fabbri to the silver will be necessary to qualify to GPF and start their journey back to being National champions once more.

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EXCLUSIVE: British actor Jack Lowden is adding another role to his growing list of credits, boarding Al Capone biopic Fonzo from writer/director Josh Trank. Tom Hardy stars as the ruthless Chicago businessman and bootlegger; Lowden will play FBI agent Crawford. Matt Dillon, Linda Cardellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Katherine Narducci also recently joined the cast.

Al “Fonzo” Capone ruled Chicago with an iron fist during the Prohibition Era and was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore before being famously taken down by Eliot Ness. The film centers on his final days. At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia sets in and Capone’s past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life.

Lowden, who won an Olivier Award for 2013’s Ghosts, was last seen in Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-nominated epic, Dunkirk (which also starred Hardy) and played The Smiths’ frontman, Morrissey in England Is Mine. Next up, he’ll be seen in Working Title and Focus Features’ Mary Queen of Scots opposite Saoirse Ronan, and the Stephen Merchant-helmed Fighting With My Family. He’s repped by UTA and Conway van Gelder Grant.

Bron Studios and Creative Wealth Media are backing Fonzo. Producers are Aaron L Gilbert for Bron; Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder for Addictive Pictures; and Lawrence Bender for A Band Apart. Jason Cloth of Creative Wealth Media is exec producing. CAA and Endeavor Content are handling North American rights, with Bloom on international sales.

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Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder Compulsory Dance “Blues” 2002. Photographed by Tony Marshall and Jacques Demarthon.

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Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder's Golden Waltz costumes at the 2002 World Championships.

(Photo by Barry Mittan)

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Broadway musical 'Come From Away' hits Apple TV+ on Friday, Sept. 10

Broadway musical ‘Come From Away’ hits Apple TV+ on Friday, Sept. 10

A filmed version of the award-winning Broadway musical “Come From Away” will land on Apple TV+ on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. Credit: Come From Away “Come From Away” follows the story of 7,000 people stranded in a small Newfoundland town after flights were grounded on Sept 11, 2001. The filmed version of the Musical, which has won Tony and Olivier awards, was recorded at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre…

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Spain has a new junior ice dance pair

Èrika Riera has teamed up with Raman Balanovic. Both of them train at CSG Lyon with the guidance of Olivier Schoenfelder, Muriel Zazoui, Marien de la Asuncion, Emi Hirai and Neil Brown.

You can see them skating a bit of their RD in the video of this tweet by Hielo Español, who were the first to announce this partnership.

[londontheatre]

The National Theatre today announced Toby Stephens in the role of social-scientist Terje Rød-Larsen, with Lydia Leonard as his wife, diplomat Mona Juul and Peter Polycarpou plays Ahmed Qurie, the former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. The Lincoln Center Theater’s critically acclaimed production of OSLO, begins performances at the National Theatre on 5 September (press nights 15, 16, 18 September) and later transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre (2 October – 30 December 2017).

This gripping new play by J T Rogers, directed by Bartlett Sher, was awarded ‘Best Play’ at the 2017 Tony Awards ® and was winner of every ‘Best Play’ award on Broadway this season including those given by New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle , Drama League, Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards.

In 1993, in front of the world’s press, the leaders of Israel and Palestine shook hands on the lawn of the White House. Few watching would have guessed that the negotiations leading up to this iconic moment started secretly in a castle in the middle of a forest outside Oslo.

Oslo tells the true story of how one young Norwegian couple Mona Juul (Lydia Leonard) and her husband, Terje Rød-Larsen (Toby Stephens) planned and orchestrated top-secret, high-level meetings between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which culminated in the signing of the historic 1993 Oslo Accords. Featuring dozens of characters and set in locations across the globe, Oslo is both a political thriller and the personal story of a small band of women and men struggling together – and fighting each other – as they seek to change the world. (Mona Juul is currently the Norwegian Ambassador to the UK – the first woman to occupy the role).

Toby Stephens has recently completed filming Lost in Space for Netflix – playing the leading role of John Robinson. The series is due for launch in 2018. Previous stage work includes Private Lives (Chichester Festival Theatre and Gielgud Theatre), Danton’s Death (NT), The Real Thing (Old Vic), A Doll’s House (Donmar Warehouse), Betrayal (Donmar Warehouse), Japes (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), The Country Wife (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Wallenstein (RSC), Unfinished Business (RSC), Tamburlaine (RSC), The Pilate Workshop (RSC), Hamlet – title role (RSC), Measure for Measure (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), Coriolanus – title role (RSC), All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC), Antony and Cleopatra (RSC), Britannicus (Almeida), Phèdre (Almeida and Brooklyn Academy Of Music)), Tartuffe (Playhouse), and Ring Round the Moon (Lincoln Center). Recent film work includes 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, The Journey and Hunter Killer (due for release.) Other film work includes: The Machine, Believe, All Things To All Men, Severance, The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey, Die Another Day, Possession, The Announcement, Onegin, Photographing Fairies, Sunset Heights, Cousin Bette, The Great Gatsby, Twelfth Night and Orlando. TV work includes: Black Sails, And Then There Were None, Vexed, Robin Hood , Wired, The Wild West, Jane Eyre, The Best Man, The Queen’s Sister, Cambridge Spies, Perfect Strangers, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Lydia Leonard appeared in Time and the Conways at the National. Her previous stage work includes Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies for which she was nominated for a TONY award and Hecuba (RSC), Let There Be Love (Tricycle); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bristol Old Vic), Love’s Labour’s Lost on national tour and Onassis and Frost/Nixon in the West End. Her television appearances include Life in Squares, River, Lucan, Ambassadors, Da Vinci’s Demons, Whitechapel, Law & Order, Spooks, Casualty 1909, The 39 Steps, Ashes to Ashes, Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, Casualty 1907, The Line of Beauty, Jericho, Rome, Foyle’s War and Midsomer Murders. On film she has appeared in The Fifth Estate, The Big Picture, The Shocate, Born of War, Archipelago and True True Lie.

Peter Polycarpou takes the role Ahmed Qurie, the former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. Peter’s previous work at the NT includes The Magistrate, Oklahoma! (also West End) and Metropolis Kabarett, He was in the original company of Les Misérables (RSC) and Miss Saigon (West End) he most recently appeared in Working at Southwark Playhouse.

The cast also includes Geraldine Alexander, Philip Arditti, Thomas Arnold, Nabil Elouahabi , Paul Herzberg. Karoline Gable, Anthony Shuster, Daniel Stewart and Howard Ward. Further casting will be announced.

Oslo is written by J T Rogers and directed by Bartlett Sher, with sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Donald Holder, sound by Peter John Still and projections by 59 Productions. JT Rogers’ previous plays for the National Theatre are: Blood and Gifts, which premiered at the Lyttelton Theatre in 2010 and The Overwhelming, a co-production between the National Theatre and Out of Joint. His other plays include Madagascar (Theatre503 in London and Melbourne Theatre Company) and White People (Off-Broadway; Starry Night Productions). He was one of the authors of the Olivier nominated The Great Game: Afghanistan at the Tricycle Theatre. His plays have been seen across the U.S., and in Canada, Germany and Israel. Bartlett Sher’s makes his directorial debut for the National Theatre with Oslo. His previous work in the UK includes Women on the verge of a Breakdown at the Playhouse in 2015, Two Boys for the ENO and South Pacific for the Barbican in 2011 and TFANA’s Cymbeline, at the RSC’s The Other Place in 2001. His previous work for Lincoln Center Theater includes: The King and I, Golden Boy, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, The Light in the Piazza (Tony nominations); South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards; also London, Australia); Blood and Gifts; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (London). Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway Theatre), The Bridges of Madison County (Schoenfeld). Off-Broadway: Prayer for My Enemy (Playwrights Horizons), Waste (Best Play Obie Award), Don Juan, Pericles (TFANA, BAM). Upcoming productions include Adam Guettel’s new musical Millions and My Fair Lady for LCT.

OSLO Listings Information National Theatre, Upper Ground, London SE1 9PX Dates: 5 – 26 September 2017 Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm, Thursday and Saturday at 2.00pm There will be a Platform event with Mona Juul, Mona Juul and the Oslo Accords in the Lyttleton Theatre on 15 September at 6pm.

Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton St, London SW1Y 4DN Dates: 2 October – 30 December 2017

http://ift.tt/2oNqaaQ LondonTheatre1.com

[accidental-rambler]

Watching VirtueMoir brought back my love for figure skating and it made me think of this dance by Delobel & Schoenfelder, one of my favourite routines to this very day.