It was a post on the IG Forum that alerted me to the existence of this video of a wonderful floor exercise from the 1981 Moscow News Tournament. Irina Breigina, born in 1967 in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, was the 1979 Junior USSR Champion but sadly missed out on major senior competitive events thanks to a serious foot injury.
Nevertheless, this is a really interesting floor routine which shows off Breigina's plasticity and expression to its best effect and also interprets the music in an unexpected way. Incidentally, the Soviet team used the same music for their group exercises at one of the many displays I attended during the early 1980s.
Watch it on Youtube.
Nevertheless, this is a really interesting floor routine which shows off Breigina's plasticity and expression to its best effect and also interprets the music in an unexpected way. Incidentally, the Soviet team used the same music for their group exercises at one of the many displays I attended during the early 1980s.
Watch it on Youtube.
Wow! They were doing really interesting things in their floor routines in those days. Not like now. I miss the inventive choreography of the 80s.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, Irina herself actually hates that routine and likened the choreography to being that of a scorpion in a desert.
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