Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Why so serious?

Couple of days ago my favorite figure skating couple Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin put up an excellent ice dance routine which is possibly the best I've seen in the recent years and the best these Russian figure skating champion duo have put up ONLY to get slammed. Their crime? They put up a 3-minute ice dancing routine inspired by the Australian aborigine culture which supposedly bear a wrong portrayal of the aborigine culture.

Experts in Australia say that their movements and body decorations “bear no resemblance to that of the Aborigines’ 60,000 year old culture” and they find their performance offensive. Some slagged them saying their body paint looks like it's painted on by a 3-year-old but then are they really offensive? I say WHY SO SERIOUS? Fine, granted that their outfit doesn't look like the real aborigine get up but you can't expect the dude to be wearing a loin cloth and body paint in the freezing skating rink toting a digereedoo can you? You don't want falling loin cloth and flapping man bits!!! (loin cloth+freezing cold=ball shrinkage+cloth loosening&falling)

After all, their routine is ABORIGINE INSPIRED and they never claim to put up some authentic aborigine dance. These aborigine experts & elders should just take an herbal red bush chill pill....

That aside...their performance was BREATHTAKING!! Watch! It's impossibly captivating! Oh...I think my only complaint is that they actually look a bit like Christmas tree because of the red and green color combination...other than that, they're totally RAD!!!

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