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Stéphane Lambiel’s Ice Legends: A Midspring Night’s Dream
Reactions, emotions, reflections
Daisuke Takahashi: Bonjour, La Suisse. J’espère que vous allez bien! I’m glad to be here to skate for you. I have to tell you a secret: I almost became a hockey player.
Brian Joubert: Moi aussi!
Sarah Meier: Pas mois.
Stéphane Lambiel: Et surtout pas moi! Sans plus attendre, merci d’avoir accueilli, dans son tout nouveau numéro, Daisuke Takahashi!
And then there’s this: the reason why I kept mumbling „Lacrimooosa…” days on end after the show – and I don’t even have an ear for music (or a beautiful voice altogether). But this particular number, Daisuke Takahashi’s Lacrimosa, is highly addictable. And so is the skater himself. And I remember my confusion the first couple of seconds of that program: what do I do? Do I take pictures, do I write down my thoughts, the crowd’s reactions? How do I do preserve, in the tiniest details, the emotions of such a skate? And then my mind calmed down, and embraced the performance, and this new face of Daisuke Takahashi after a year in New York, studying dance. And then it struck me: the spot he left behind when he decided to retire is still empty – there’s no one like him in the competitive arena right now, with talent, musicality, charisma to build a house from its foundations. He could come back – but he won’t, he said it more than once. Luckily, we’re still having him skate in galas – him and his reflections in the plexiglass walls surrounding the lateral parts of the ice rink. And it’s in these areas in particular that you see tens of „D1SK” towels in the air, at the end of his program – and I would have raised one myself if only I had had one…
“We all learned Daisuke’s Mambo steps”
The story of Daisuke Takahashi’s enthusiastic Mambo at Ice Legends started even sooner than the actual performance, with Stéphane Lambiel recreating some of the famous steps of the routine, in February; with the confirmation that Mambo would be a part of Ice Legends, as stated in the official program released two days before the show; but mostly with all the other skaters cheering and applauding Daisuke, during the long sessions of rehearsals. All the colorful hints led to this: something special was about to happen in Geneva, under the roof of Patinoire des Vernets.
And when the first music notes are heard in the arena, and the light of the projector uncovers Daisuke Takahashi – in the middle of the rink, black pants, lively, colored shirt, with a generous V-neck, as if he were indeed a ballroom dancer – the audience goes nuts. That big is the frenzy, that many people were looking forward to this particular performance, the cherry on Ice Legends’ cake. Affectionately nicknamed Daisuke’s Mambo, this is, in fact, his short program from 2010-2011 season, to Historia de un Amor and Qué Rico el Mambo, a jewel of a routine choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne for the freshly crowned World champion (in Torino, at 2010 Worlds). And this was the same season Daisuke Takahashi had his exhibition program, to La Valse d’Amélie, choreographed by Stéphane Lambiel.
And now let’s head back into the present, with Daisuke thoroughly enjoying this second life of his Mambo, surrounded by the joyful, euphoric shouts in the arena; and the “D1SK” white towels in the air, as soon as the music stopped. And I might have done just that during the skate, clapping and shouting and dancing on my chair – but the end of the routine had me on my feet, as everyone else in the ice rink. And so Stéphane’s bet from the Ice Legends brochure, “On parie que tout le monde sera debout à la fin de son légendaire mambo?”, he would have surely won it. And I can say it loud and clear, no shade of hesitation: there’s no Mambo like this Mambo, there’s no skater like this skater. Dare to contradict me.
And then there’s Daisuke Takahashi literally between temptations. The indecision: Tessa? Carolina? The blink, the blush, the game of seduction. The dancing hips. The dancing feet. The utter sorrow we don’t see that in competition. The utter joy he’s still skating in galas. And then there’s him falling under Carolina’s spell, leaving the ice, only to come back in a couple of seconds for the final part of the show. And that has him too under the spotlight, since the last minutes of Ice Legends can be very well considered a tribute to his Mambo: to a Mambo Medley by Nettai Tropical Jazz Band, each and every skater in the cast recreates those famous, anthological steps. And a day later, asking Carolina what she has learned, if any, from the Ice Legends’ team, she’ll answer quickly, with a laughter: “We all learned Daisuke’s Mambo steps, and that’s very special”.