Evgeni Plushenko collaborates with Sergei Filin

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Figure skater Evgeni Plushenko not in vain returned to the national team. The athlete is working very seriously on the new program and has attracted the best choreographers for cooperation. Reportedly, now Evgeny is assisted by the head of the Bolshoi Ballet Sergei Filin and the choreographer Yuri Posokhov.

As Filin told reporters, he will be engaged in the development of new images for Plushenko. “In the near future we will start working together with choreographers, including Yuri Possokhov, in particular. He has just staged the ballet "A Hero of Our Time", the world premiere of which was successfully held at the Bolshoi Theater, "the choreographer of TASS is quoted as saying.

We will remind, last year Plushenko refused to speak at the Olympics in Sochi. However, the athlete has now fully recovered from his back surgery in March last year. He intends to compete at the 2016 European and World Championships. Skating in the new season will be part of the preparation for the Olympic cycle before the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in which the athlete has repeatedly announced his participation.

In turn, the athlete assures that the new production made a strong impression on him. “It is an honor for me to work with such masters from the Bolshoi Theater. I am inspired by their ideas and new images. Was at the close of the season on the new stage of the Bolshoi at the ballet "A Hero of Our Time". I was very impressed. I recommend it to everyone,”the champion wrote on social media.

It is curious that just a few days ago Evgeny's coach Alexei Mishin talked about how difficult it is for choreographers to work with a skater. “Like, for example, Stéphane Lambiel and other outstanding figure skaters, Plushenko is 99 percent the creator of the program himself. He has such a raging personality that it is difficult for him to fit into the framework of the plan of a particular choreographer,”explained the athlete's mentor.