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Post by pianomaya on Dec 27, 2012 0:39:27 GMT 1
Thank you very much cebstar and maple for your report and impression about the meeting. 2 hours!!! Oh it must be very nice! Dear cebstar I'm looking for your "answers of Stéphane" Btw, reut it was in Tokyo.
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Post by reut on Dec 27, 2012 7:50:19 GMT 1
Btw, reut it was in Tokyo. Yes, I know. Why does it make any difference where it was? Thank you, cebstar, for your answer. I asked because being one of the organizers of meetings in Russia I wondered if it could be possible there. It's absolutely clear for me now that it couldn't.
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Post by pianomaya on Dec 27, 2012 14:57:51 GMT 1
Btw, reut it was in Tokyo. Yes, I know. Why does it make any difference where it was? No, no, absolutely not. I thought you asked about it but yes, I don't see it. Perhaps I read it in dream.
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Post by reut on Dec 27, 2012 16:02:28 GMT 1
Yes, I know. Why does it make any difference where it was? No, no, absolutely not. I thought you asked about it but yes, I don't see it. Perhaps I read it in dream. No, I didn't ask. Probably someone else asked you somewhere else.
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Post by Anna on Dec 27, 2012 17:26:55 GMT 1
Great Thank you very much, maple and cebstar for your stories and impressions 2 hours.. wow, I'm happy for you/them! ;D
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Post by mejokuste on Dec 27, 2012 23:12:43 GMT 1
Yes, thank you maple and cebstar . It's nice to have some informations from Japan .
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Post by cebstar on Dec 28, 2012 12:32:46 GMT 1
I will write about Q&A little by little with my friend's help.
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Hello everyone! It’s really nice to see you! Merry Christmas to everyone! It’s my big pleasure to spend Christmas time with all my fans here. Thank you very much for celebrating with me!
-----You've just arrived from Sapporo today. Don't you feel tired?
I’m not tired. I was tired when I got to Sapporo because trip was quite long with 3 different flights and some taxis but I had really nice time in Sapporo, ate some noodles…Ra-Men.(laughs). I had a great performance last night and I was also able to watch all Japanese skaters – well, not all but most of them. They were really, really impressive and it was a great inspiration for me. I’m really lucky to be able to be part of Japanese national championship.
-----Well, please sit down. Today, 62 fans and Swiss TV staff have come. I've heard it will be broadcasted on TV in Switzerland. They want to some interviews from your fans.
You will get now more famous than me!
-----I'd like to ask you some questions. What year did 2012 mean to you?
2012 was not so easy for me. It was a tough year but in the same time I have some great memories. As you know, in June I had trouble with my eyes because probably lots of shows, lots of spins, and I had some blood vessels in trouble. But at the same time I was able to recover and doctors said after six weeks of break they could see a miracle because everything disappeared without any surgery. They were really, really happy and I was relieved to know I was not needed to do a surgery and I able to go back to the ice, be able to spin, to perform without any problem.
I think health is also the most important thing in the life. If you have health and if you have lot of hobbies and passion you can get motivation to go on and move forth. What I want to learn from 2012 is – with health you are able to do whatever you want. We just need to find our goal, find our wish for life and just work on that and give all what we have to achieve what we want. That’s what I keep in mind for the future.
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Post by cebstar on Dec 28, 2012 12:57:47 GMT 1
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-----You have come to Japan a lot this year including this trip. How many times have you come to Japan?
Hundred but maybe very close to hundred. I don’t know, first time was 1998 or 1999 (thinking long) so it is already 13 years ago… time flies. But I don’t remember exactly. Next year I will tell you, I will count.
-----One of the most impressive things is that you went to Tohoku in Japanese TV program. Please tell us some episode of that.
It was a very important project for me. I felt very sad when I arrived there to see that all city was destroyed and there was not a piece what stayed, everything was destroyed. I cannot describe how sad it was to watch this. You take life differently when you see this kind of image. We are lucky to be here and not be part of this tragedy. It was very difficult to understand how you can survive after that, how you can dream about the future. And then I was able to meet a young girl. She is a beautiful girl, speed skater, she’s practicing a lot to become a good speed skater. I could see she lost her father, she lost her grandfather in the tragedy. But she was still with hope in her eyes, and she was having dream about her life in the future. I met also her brothers and I met her mom. All the family was very tight together and they were trying to make it work, trying to find a better future, and that was for me big impression for my life and also for my future. To fight if you have hard moment in your life but keep faith and keep living with yourself. That’s what I told her and that’s what I admire in her but in the same time I want to give her my power to keep going, to keep believing and dreaming. And stay positive in her mind.
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Post by Anna on Dec 28, 2012 15:04:38 GMT 1
cebstar, it's really kind of you to share with us thanks again!!
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Post by aleachim on Dec 28, 2012 16:44:36 GMT 1
Big thanks to you, who shared with us information, video and pictures from Japan!!! You really made my day;D ;D I do not understand the French in video, but lucky fans who could spend with Stéphane 2 hours:) The calendar looks really good, maybe it could be a new item of Stéphane's e-shop? The report from Xmas party is great!! Nice to read about Stéphane's impressions from the year 2012. I believe that many fans prayed for his health and the miracle could come true, I am so happy he did not need a surgery:) I hope we will see him in the Kiss and cry more often. He is back in competitions through his students, so good luck;)
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Post by sonik on Dec 28, 2012 18:29:24 GMT 1
cebstar, thank you for your report! The party must be really beautiful and nice present for Stéphane, who acknowledges this kind of event :-) each fan who met Stéphane must be very happy, speak with him, have "privite small meeting" must be certainly very charming! nice to read everybody enjoyed that! :-)
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Post by pia on Dec 28, 2012 20:31:21 GMT 1
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Post by mejokuste on Dec 29, 2012 0:32:09 GMT 1
Thank you, cebstar, for sharing .
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Post by reut on Dec 29, 2012 21:19:12 GMT 1
Thank you, cebstar for your stories from the meeting. Stephane always talks a lot about sharing. And he shares so much of his warmth and light with his fans. Me personally, I always felt that I absolutely had to pass the light I got from him further. I'm glad his Japanese fans felt the same. Hope to get more of your stories and reports in future. I know the rules are strict and you can't share videos and photos, but the most important is this will to share and then there always will be way how to do it.
aleachim, I might be mistaken, but I think those calendars were on sale on some Japanese sites.
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Post by cebstar on Dec 31, 2012 6:29:55 GMT 1
I'm sorry for the delay in writing more.
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-----Please tell us about your program. (I thought he wanted to ask about Puttin' on the Ritz, but Stephane answered about the other program.)
I was doing a new number for Evgeni’s birthday show. He asked me to do a program with the live music from Caruso. My idea was to do a hommage, a tribute to Evgeni as a birthday gift. I was trying to see lots of videos of him, how he performed and I wanted to be very close to his personality and take what I think is the best from Evgeni. I was also very honored to be part of this birthday show. We did also a group number with three other men skaters: Evgeni, of course, Yagudin and Ilya Kulik. Three of them are Olympic champions, and I was able – as a silver medalist – to be part in this group so it was for me a big, big honour.
-----Please tell us about new program which you will do in Art on Ice.
As you know Art on Ice premiere will be at the Thursday 31th of January in Zürich and we already started to work with my choreographer Salome. One month ago we started the choreography for the two new programs. One program will be with music from Leona Lewis, it’s called “Run”. We worked with this piece with big pleasure I really love this song. Salome didn't know it before, and she really enjoy working on that. We tried to put lot of power, lot of speed in the program. There is this moment in the end of program where I – first of all I go away from the singer, Leona but in one moment I just realize – I need to go back to her and I just run toward her full of passion, full of energy. It’s like I change my mind and I say: oh no, I want to return to her and to go back to her for the last time. That’s for one program. The other is gonna be very wild and crazy. It’s “Paint it black” from Rolling Stones. We already started to do paintings for my costumes, it will be very different style! I hope you will like it and I hope you will able to watch both performances. It's also good part of me, because one part I think I really like the classic lines and when it’s very pure but at the same time I like when it’s wild and when it has lots of energy and when it goes wild like I am sometimes. I have those both sides in me and I want to show those both sides in the show. And then there will be an extra performance at Art on Ice this year, the singing part. I will probably sing on the stage for the opening, I’m really excited to do that. Art on Ice showed me few weeks ago a song and said we are looking for a singer to sing this song. I said – oh, it’s a good song! One week later director of Art on Ice said that he wants me to sing that song. I said I’m not a singer. He said – you had experience sometimes in some shows, I’m sure you can do it. I said -OK, just send me lyrics, I will try to learn. Next day and then paid the appointment in a studio to record the song. So it was just made in two days. It was actually a big pleasure for me to be in a studio and to do something completely different. The man who composed the song was also very positive about it. He was giving me good advice. So I enjoyed it and one week later he sent me the final result. I was very impressed with my voice. I didn’t know I can sing that good and finally we decided it will be the song for Art on Ice and it would be performed live for the show. It was a new challenge for me, I’m excited and I hope there will be more opportunities in the future.
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