Figure skater Khudaiberdieva spoke about her meeting with the famous choreographer Richaud in the center of Paris

Russian figure skater Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva who performs in ice dancing with Egor Bazin, wrote in her column on that during her vacation in France she had the opportunity to personally communicate with the famous choreographer Benoit Richaud for the first time.

After a sporting career in ice dance, Richaud became a coach then a choreographer, author of programs for his compatriot Adam Xiao Him Fa, the Belgian Nina Pinzarrone, as well as the Russians Evgeniy Semenenko and Agata Petrova.

On February 11, at the ISU Skating Awards 2024 in Zurich, Richaud won in the “Best Choreographer” category.

— Figure skating doesn’t let me go even on vacation. And now I’m going to meet the best choreographer of the ISU Skating Awards and quite simply an extraordinary person, Benoit Richaud. We only knew each other on social networks and at a few competitions, so I could not miss such a rare opportunity to communicate live. It was a discovery for me that, I am not afraid of this word, the most talented choreographer of the last ten years, a genius of modernism, worked as a bartender for five years and knew more about varieties of gin than on the required requirements. number of jumps in programs.

The agenda of the most sought-after choreographer is very busy and scheduled down to the minute. As soon as he choreographed the French champion’s program, he flew the next morning to Bulgaria, and a week later to Japan. It makes me even more grateful to fate for having surprised him on a single Moscow Mule in the center of Paris,” Khudaiberdieva wrote in a column on the website.

Khudaiberdieva and Bazin are Russian champions in the 2022/23 season. Since March 2023, they have been training in Alexander Zhulin’s group, where they left coach Denis Samokhin. The duo won silver medals at the Russian Championship and the Spartakiad of the Strongest.

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