Does anyone remember John Curry’s gold-medal performance? I don’t know if this was world-wide or just a local extra but the broadcast was followed by a performance by Wayne Sleep dancing to the same music (I can’t remember what it was). It looked so awkward compared to the skating performance I’d just watched that it was almost painful to watch.
When I think about John Curry, I always think of Alfred Dellar; both men lifted their arts out from what was seen as little more than a necessity. Men’s figure skating became Art after Curry but Robin Cousin was a very different skater; he was a performer through and through (apparently Curry hated performing in public, or so I read somewhere). Countertenor equivalent should be Andreas Scholl but I think Philippe Jaroussky is more like Cousin. Both arts have changed beyond Curry and Dellar must have ever dreamed.
It will be good to be reminded how it all started. I wonder if John Curry was born half a century too soon.
When I think about John Curry, I always think of Alfred Dellar; both men lifted their arts out from what was seen as little more than a necessity. Men’s figure skating became Art after Curry but Robin Cousin was a very different skater; he was a performer through and through (apparently Curry hated performing in public, or so I read somewhere). Countertenor equivalent should be Andreas Scholl but I think Philippe Jaroussky is more like Cousin. Both arts have changed beyond Curry and Dellar must have ever dreamed.
It will be good to be reminded how it all started. I wonder if John Curry was born half a century too soon.
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