95年2月5日Ilia Kucik获得了他职业生涯的第一个国际比赛的成人冠军--欧锦赛金牌,为十周年纪念,Ilia的官方网站举办了一次回顾95年欧洲冠军的写作活动.http://www.kuliks-krew.com/Europeans95.shtml
我们年华里著名的Ilia族小花痴Icarus在这次活动中表现突出,文章已上该官方网站
http://www.kuliks-krew.com/Europeans95_files/Reminiscences.shtml 最上面一篇.
Memories of Ilia at Dortmund...
BY ICARUS
I know many Krew members began to watch Ilia’s skating since 1995 when he won the Europeans and have followed him for many years. I’m a new fan, so when I understood that this year is Ilia’s 10th Anniversary of winning Europeans, I felt incredible. Ten years is such a long time and even now Ilia is still very young. A month ago I just saw Ilia’s skating tapes for the first time. Thanks to the enthusiastic Krew members, without your help maybe I would never have seen Ilia’s presentation in 1995’s Europeans.
It’s such an enjoyable experience to watch Ilia skating "Rigoletto" and "An American In Paris." They have mature themes and they are very tough for a 17-year-old boy to interpret. "Rigoletto" is especially difficult, and Ilia’s presentation amazed me. This 17-year-old guy seemed so young and tender, and the opera’s theme was tragic. It’s a risk to choose this piece of music ("Women Are Fickle"), but Ilia was so clever to find the most suitable way to interpret it. He turned this music into playing himself and got away from the effort of portraying a dissolute duke.
In fact Ilia is not a born performer as are Candeloro or Plushenko. He has an introverted style; sometimes it’s more emotional to see that he hid the passion inside. I can still see the youthful vigor sprung from his body, lively and strong. It had more personality, he made the program an innocent feeling, not because he misunderstood the theme of the opera--it’s very suitable for his age. He was so pure, every movement just came from his heart without any affectation. He never overacted his character. He had that innocent “power” to give the music a new meaning. From Rigoletto, I saw a little prince in fairy tale jumped out from the book, just like a dream.
One of my friends who once saw Ilia’s program told me that when she saw him skating, she felt a little tragic. She is so sensitive and sentimental and I can understand her. If something is so perfect and dreamy, it always lets people think how fragile it is. Maybe that’s why I am always misty-eyed when I see Ilia’s programs.
Ten years have elapsed; the little boy has grown up to be a mature man. Time changes everything, but I’m rejoicing that Ilia is still Ilia. He still has his style, his quality. He lost nothing. I think that's why I love him so much. I’m really a lucky fan. In the next 10 years, I don’t know what will happen. We may get happiness, also we may undergo suffering, but one thing I can believe firmly, our Iliushka will still give more and more big happy surprises to us. Just wait, we’ll see.
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