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thewidowstanton · 2 years

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The Widow's best of 2021

Compiled by Liz Arratoon

2021 was the year Blackpool Pleasure Beach celebrated its 125th anniversary, and the magic world marked 100 years of sawing a woman in two. Hmmm! For us, spending more time at home meant we watched more films and read more books so both will feature more heavily in our list than usual, along with other stuff we’ve seen and enjoyed this year.

But before we get to any of that let’s start with the most beautiful thing we saw in 2021. It was right at the start of year – and nothing since has come close to it – when the London International Mime Festival directors Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan managed to put on a brilliant event against the odds by going online.

MOST CREATIVE: Vertigo, a short film by mixed-reality artists Kristin and Davy McGuire of Studio McGuire commissioned by the London International Mime Festival. Four minutes of heaven as Kristin performs on a shiny pole, enveloped in a gossamer haze of digital images that are protected on to gauze. Stunning! Watch it here. Pic: Studio McGuire

BEST SHOW: David Byrne’s innovative concert/dance production American Utopia.

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Annie-B Parson’s thrilling moves in American Utopia.

FAVOURITE ACT: The Shandong Acrobatic Troupe’s plate spinners from 2019’s Monte Carlo International Circus Festival. In a refreshing break from tradition, it used the main theme music from Wong Kar-wai’s 2004 film 2046. Also watch out for Laura Borrelli's hula-hoop cameo in the film The Hand of God.

BEST TWITTER CIRCUS PIC: La Charmeuse de Serpents at the Folies-Bergère, posted by @PablosCircus.

BEST PROMO: Hula-hoop star Marawa the Amazing's delightful 'calling card', produced by her husband. Watch it here.

BEST SHOWBIZ STORY: Christine Walevska's stolen cello in The Tale of the Little Countess’ Little Cello on BBC Radio 4’s Outlook.

BEST SHOWBIZ TV SERIES: Hacks, with the incredible Jean Smart as a 'senior' Vegas stand-up comic.

BEST TV CHARACTER: Nunzia Schiano as Donna Nunzia in Gomorrah, the Naples-set Mafia saga, which also gets MOST STYLISH TV SERIES for its breathtaking lighting and locations. BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES: Fran Lebowitz’s Pretend It’s a City, directed by Martin Scorsese on Netflix. BEST INTERVIEW: Sylvie Guillem by dancer Daniil Simkin. Watch it here.

BEST EXHIBITION: Noël Coward Art and Style at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London.

BEST SERIES: Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds. Laurie Anderson’s stunningly intelligent Norton ‘lectures’ – in reality, shows – from the Mahindra Humanities Center, six of them given to the world for free!

BEST MUSIC: The score for the TV series ZeroZeroZero by Mogwai.

BEST WEEKLY MAILOUT: David Mills’ Quality Time – “a five-point bulletin of curated curious content” – in which he scours the world for things to interest, surprise and delight us. Above is the original rhinestone cowboy Loy Bowlin, who covered his life and house, the Beautiful Holy Jewel Home, in glitter, tin foil, tinsel and so forth. What could be more showbiz? Subscribe for free here.

BEST DANCE: The Ballets de Monte-Carlo White Darkness by Nacho Duato and The Lavender Follies by Joseph Hernandez.

BEST COSTUMES: Russian synchronised swimmers Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina’s spider-themed outfits at the Olympic Games. BEST FILM: Apples, a Greek Weird Wave first feature film from director Christos Nikou concerning… um… a different sort of pandemic.

BEST ANIMATION: Hungarian 1976 short Scenes with Beans, directed by Ottó Foky, about a cosmic metallic hen that lands on a planet of beans and observes their daily lives.

BEST DESERT ISLAND DISCS CASTAWAY: Sophia Loren, by a mile.

MOST FUN: Stump the Guesser, a short film by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson.

BEST SHOWBIZ BOOK: My Rock ’n’ Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn, and To the End of the World, Travels with Oscar Wilde by Rupert Everett.

BEST BOOK: Two more memoirs share this spot… Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes by Rodrigo García, and Linn Ullman’s Unquiet. Both concern ageing and death, which leads us on to…

GONE TOO SOON: Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Mike Nesmith of the Monkees and actors Michael K Williams (above) and Helen McCrory. And those we knew personally: our friend circus impresario Gerry Cottle, Spymonkey’s marvellous and unforgettable loon Stephan Kreiss (below), and lastly Lord Christopher Laverty of the magnificent @clothesonfilm, who was one of the most knowledgeable, and certainly the best, speakers we’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to, who died desperately young in a canoeing accident.

But so as not to end on too sad a note SPECIAL MENTIONS go to the Lucille Ball film Being the Ricardos, the kick-ass women in the TV series The Nevers, and the simply spectacular documentary House of Cardin, about genius fashion designer – among many, many other things – Pierre Cardin.

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futomakigami · 3 years

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Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko compete in the final of the artistic swimming on August 4

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dimelotv · 3 years

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La rusa Romashina suma su sexto oro en unos Juegos Olímpicos

EL NUEVO DIARIO, TOKIO.- La rusa Svetlana Romashina se convirtió en la nadadora más laureada de la historia de la natación artística en los Juegos Olímpicos, tras colgarse este miércoles su sexta medalla de oro, al imponerse junto con Svetlana Kolesnichenko en la final de dúos de los Juegos Olímpicos. Romashina, que figuraba igualada a cinco oros con las también rusas Anastasia Davydova y Natalia…

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techiecynews · 3 years

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Romashina aims for 6th gold in artistic swimming

TOKYO: Russia’s Svetlana Romashina will be aiming for her record-breaking sixth gold in artistic swimming on Wednesday after leading the duet preliminaries. Romashina teamed up with Svetlana Kolesnichenko to record the best scores in the free and technical routines. Their performance at Kalinka “by Little Big gave them a score of 97.1079 in the free routine on Tuesday night. They advanced to the…

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noticiastodaynetwork · 5 years

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Oro para Romashina-Kolesnichenko; Ramírez-Saldaña, séptimas en el dúo técnico http://www.republicadominicananoticiastoday.com/oro-para-romashina-kolesnichenko-ramirez-saldana-septimas-en-el-duo-tecnico/

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olympictickets · 5 years

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Artistic Swimming: Countries that Qualify to 2020 Olympics

The top two countries not already qualified, China and Ukraine, punched their ticket to Tokyo, using combined scores from technical and free events. Moreover, the Oceania continental spot went to Australia, while Egypt qualified for Africa’s quota. The duos also get an automatic quota as a result.

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China and Ukraine are indeed the next two major nations to join the Olympic field alongside Russia and Japan in the team events.

China

The Chinese scored 96.0333 in the free team final with their “Ode to the Heroines”, for a combined score of 191.1876 that earned them a spot to Tokyo. They have been working on this routine for a while now and wanted to highlight the Chinese culture throughout. Guo Li admitted the hardest part for them is at the very beginning of the routine where they perform three acrobatic movements in a row.

The Chinese have also been working with Anna Tarrès for the last month in an effort to improve their artistic side. Tarrès, former coach of the Spanish national team for nearly 20 years, has collaborated with Ukraine and Israel in the last few years as well.

“I am just making some revisions,” Tarrès said. “I gave them some ideas to try to develop new movements, try to clean up what they were doing before, and try to make the routine more organic so that it could flow a little more. Mainly, it has been more to give them tools to develop the theme and to develop their own potential. The goal was trying to make them realize that they could go one step forward, and to look for new movement and for a new way of swimming.”

By defending their bronze medal from 2017 and once again placing third with a score of 94.3667, leading to a combined score of 187.8181, the Ukrainians qualified a team to the Olympics for the second time in the country’s history.

Russia

Russia was, of course, the heavy favorite coming into this event, and won the gold medal with a score of 98.0000. The Russians performed their ‘Shamans’ routine for the last time as it was already the third season with this program, and we can be certain head coach Tatyana Pokrovskaya will create something new for the Olympics.

These world championships also marked the return of Alla Shishkina, two-time Olympic champion, to the Russian team after a break of two years following the 2016 Olympic Games.

“When I stand on the podium in Rio, I think about my comeback,” Shishkina said. “At that moment, I think that I would rest only one year. But after one year, I think more. I said to Tatiana Pokvroskaya, ‘Can I rest one more year, and these two years is my only rest?’ After these two years, I understand that I love synchronized swimming very much, with all my heart. My comeback is for the love of this sport.”

It will be extremely interesting to see how Pokrovksaya figures out who her top eight swimmers will be for Tokyo as both Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina will have to be included in the team once again.

Varvara Subbotina, the youngest of the Russian team at 18 years old and competing at her first senior world championships, explained how intense the internal competition is within the team.

“There are many girls in the reserve,” Subbotina said. “Six or seven girls stayed behind in Moscow. Everyone tries to show their best, to prove the coaches that they have this right to be in the team. Some come to the gym earlier than anyone else, some work harder on some elements in the water or in the gym. This is a normal process; we are used to it. The rivalry in the team is very high, so we know we have to work hard to be on the team.”

Japan

Unfortunately, Japan fell short of a team medal once again by scoring 93.3667 for fourth place. The Japanese had changed free team choreographies from last season, and have performed their new “Japanese Festival” routine at a few world series competitions this year. It will be interesting to see how Japan and Ukraine fare against one another at the Olympics next year, especially with them being on home turf for the Japanese team, but with a dominant Ukrainian team that cannot be denied.

Spain had finally managed to move ahead of Italy during the preliminaries, as the latter had been ahead since the 2016 European Championships in all major international competitions. However, the Italians managed to take the lead again in the final with their new routine “War of Two Worlds” despite falling on a lift, with a 91.6000 to Spain’s 91.4000.

This Spanish team, led by Mayuko Fujiki for the last two years is still quite young but has shown tremendous improvement since her arrival. Last season, Fujiki’s team had finished only 0.1333 points behind Italy in the free event at the European Championships, and she continued pushing them this season by creating a brand new routine for them in this the event, and moving away from the ‘Life in a Factory’ routine to work on this ‘Discovery of an Island’ theme.

“For me, the routine was for them to be able to learn how to swim sharp and strong,” Fujiki said. “It wasn’t really the best artistic side that I could give them. But because this is a young team, they learned something last year swimming the other routine. Now I really wanted to do something else, imagining that they were swimming qualifications in Tokyo, that the people in Tokyo would relate to and enjoy. But at the same time, I wanted something similar to Japan and Spain, and I was thinking, thinking, thinking, and then, ‘Ah! Islands!’ We are both countries with the ocean, we both have a lot of islands, with different cultures, and that gave me a little story to start with.”

Fujiki has also included Ona Carbonell in the free team routine again, and brought in 17-year-old, up-and-coming swimmer Iris Tio from the junior ranks to build the best possible team heading into the Olympic year. She has indeed played around with her roster throughout the six competitions her team was at this year, but she has clearly found something that works. If they continue on this path, the Spanish team is certainly in great shape to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.

Canada

Canada finished in sixth place with a score of 90.1000, its highest of the year with its new routine to the ‘Spectrum of Time,’ which was choreographed by Anastasia Ermakova just like its technical routine. Greece obtained 88.3333 for its ‘Africa’ routine, the same as last year, and for an eighth-place finish. France placed ninth with a score of 87.4667 for its ‘Emotions’ routine that we had seen in the last few seasons. The French faced some difficulties at these championships as Laura Augé had to be replaced in both technical and free team events at the last-minute as she suffered a back injury during training.

Mexican

The Mexican team wasn’t far behind with a score of 87.0333 for its ‘Space Discovery’ routine. The routine features a strong the opening sequence that will probably give you goosebumps, and all in all showcases a fantastic first lap with a unique throw where Jessica Sobrino, the flier of the team jumps straight above the base in a straddle split and quickly moves into a horizontal position only to be caught directly by the base underneath.

The Mexicans had a complicated season and were originally supposed to compete in a lot more world series meets, including the Hellas Beetles Cup and the Japan Open, but ended up withdrawing from those at the last minute.

“It was a very tough season,” Regina Alferez said. “It wasn’t that we were just not competing for the program, but we got sick a lot in the season so it was very hard to train and to get to this point of the year. We never felt like this before. In the past years, we were competing, at not just competitions but also exhibitions. It was a very tough year.”

U.S.A

The U.S. finished 11th with a score of 84.4000, but received a one-point penalty because the walk on deck was too long by 0.04 seconds. The Robot-themed routine was popular with the crowd, and the choreography itself truly is a gem in terms of artistic impression, musicality and attention to detail.

The U.S athletes have been excited about this routine right from the start and were thrilled to finally swim it on the world stage. They have welcomed with open arms the many changes their new coaching staff of Andrea Fuentes and Reem Abdalazem has brought on.

“I think they are the best thing that could have ever happened to us as a team,” Nicole Goot said. “We have grown individually and together so much, it’s incomparable to year’s prior. Our attitude towards everything changed. They brought a new perspective on how we train, how we compete, and our mindsets. We are a lot hungrier, more motivated, more innovative, thinking outside the box a lot more, and really supportive of each other a lot more.”

Australia

Australia and Egypt also earned their spots to the 2020 Olympics. The Egyptians finished 17th with a free score of 77.8333 and a combined score of 153.6684 to fill in the African continent quota. The Australians placed 22nd and scored 74.5333 in free, resulting in a combined score of 147.9783 to become the team for the Oceania quota, with a free routine choreographed by Giovanna Burlando, former synchronized swimmer and current technical director for Italy.

“We are really happy with how it went today,” Emily Rogers from Australia said. “We had a lot of pressure, so we are excited. We wanted our best swim. We wanted our score to beat New Zealand because then we would get our spot to represent Oceania in the Olympics.”

Notable, Brazil received a two points penalty in the prelims because it had too many acrobatics movements in its routine. Once again, it has been a difficult championship for the Brazilians as they had to scratch their duo from the competition, and to replace Maria Clara Lobo Coutinho in all the team routines.

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hackesh · 5 years

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Russia wins double gold in World Championship Russian duo Svetlana Romashina and Svetlana Kolesnichenko won the gold medal in the synchronized swimming program at the World Water Games Championship in South Korea.

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save-the-sky · 3 years

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CONGRATULATIONS TO SVETLANA KOLESNICHENKO AND SVETLANA ROMASHINA (ROC) FOR WINNING GOLD MEDALS IN ARTISTIC SWIMMING AT THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPICS

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Olympic Artistic Swimming champion Romashina hints at retirement before Olympic 2020

Russia's five-time Olympic artistic swimming victor Svetlana Romashina has implied she may resign before the rescheduled Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021. The 30-year-old guaranteed gold in the group occasion at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016, additionally triumphing in the two-part harmony challenge at the last two games.

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She is likewise a 21-times world and 10-time European boss. Romashina has been preparing to partake in the two-part harmony occasion at Olympic 2020 with Svetlana Kolesnichenko, yet recommended she may choose to resign not long from now.

This proposal came after the coronavirus pandemic constrained the rescheduling of Olympic 2020 to July 23 to August 8, 2021. Romashina likewise uncovered the aftereffect of the debate between the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) may impact her choice.

“I continue with my trainings, she stated, as detailed by Russian news office TASS. Additionally, we are for the most part hanging tight for a choice from CAS. I will settle on a choice simply after the court's decision and maybe this choice will be in fall."

RUSADA is engaging the four-year bundle of approvals gave by WADA in December. Among the disciplines passed on by the worldwide guard dog is a restriction on the Russian banner at the Tokyo Olympic and World Championships. Russia has additionally been banned from offering for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games and is set to be deprived of any World Championships it has been granted.

Competitors who can demonstrate they were not ensnared in the doping embarrassment or the resulting conceal will be cleared to contend as neutrals on significant occasions. The assents won't become effective until the CAS has rendered its ultimate conclusion. Hearings for the case could start in July, even though the continuous pandemic may cause a postponement in procedures.

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