“A moving face with deep eyes.” Stavisky told how he was impressed by Shcherbakova and Arzamasova

Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova lyrical images for adults work well, despite their young age. This opinion was voiced in a interview by two-time ice dancing world champion Maxim Stavisky.

“Carmen” is an adult story with its own plots and passions. But “Carmen” is already so battered and exhausted that even a little girl can step out in a red dress – and it’s already working. It is not necessary to represent something like this … Of course, there are also problems in solo skating when a little girl approaches an adult subject with some kind of inner feelings. Sometimes it seems ridiculous.

Although, objectively, some do. If you look at Anya Shcherbakova, for example, she has such a soulful face with deep eyes that you start to believe her. So there the question is for the choreographer, how he is going to stage everything, and for the skater herself, will she be able to interpret the idea. Anya succeeds.

And another example – once in the “ice age” I had the honor of riding with Liza Arzamasova. She was 15 at the time. And I even had quarrels with the judges. They said to her, “You are so small, but do you even understand what the phrase of the song ‘Love ship crashed in everyday life’ means? Then I got indignant and said, they say, why do you associate this girl only with the TV series “Daddy’s Daughters”, when she has already starred in 30 serious films and acted in 30 serious performances?

It all depends on how the actress or, in our case, the athlete is mentally ripe for such a role. At 15, Liza already fully understood everything, went through on her own. And in figure skating there is a similar case – the director needs to see a person and understand what kind of story he is ready for. You can take Pinocchio or go for adult drama. The only condition is that the drama doesn’t turn into Pinocchio,” Stavisky said.