Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva: “I’m not good at French, but the walls were whispering about Russian dancers who recently became interested in the Lyon Conservatory”

Russian figure skater Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva who dances on ice with Egor Bazin, wrote in her column on that while visiting the Palais de Glace in Lyon, France, she heard about the possible move of one of the Russian dance duos.

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.

— My career developed in such a way that I never played in France, but my soul really wanted to look at the Eiffel Tower and eat croissants. After choreographing the two new dances and finishing the 2023/24 season, I armed myself with a small suitcase, bought plane tickets, flew for a walk and cuddles with old Russian friends and others. The first stop on my trip was the French capital of gastronomy and figure skating – Lyon.

Out of old friendship and great love, the representative of the Russian intelligentsia in exile Alisa Ovsyankina and the future star of the French team, who recently received release from the FFKKR, together with her mother Nastya, not only met at the airport, but also kindly invited me to attend the training of the dance group of Olivier Schonfelder and Marien De La Asuncion. How amazing it was to see unique and beautiful dancers on the ice, but above all, beloved and long-time friends – two-time French champions Zhenya Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissot!

Going up to the stands of the old Lyon Ice Rink, I found myself in the middle of the spectacle of the rhythmic dance of the first French duo. Sorry, I won’t spoil the guys’ musical accompaniment, even for and our beloved readers. The dancer’s ethics.

I’m not good at French, but the walls whispered of Russian dancers who had recently taken an interest in the Lyon Conservatory. But maybe we’re talking about the new Morozov/Eremenko, who knows.

Having greeted our colleagues after the ice cream, we discussed the rule changes, without being embarrassed by the strong expressions in our native language (the French still understand them and even pronounce them), tried to unravel the mystery of the apparition of the Russian national team jacket. in the locker room, and I kissed him for a long, long time. Zhenya and I have known each other for a good fifteen years and started skating together. For a long time she was looking for a partner, while I was still trying to do three laps on the ice. Then the couples Khudaiberdieva/Nazarov and Lopareva/Karpushov began to participate in Russian competitions. The last tournament together was at the World Junior Championships in Zagreb. We then became second, and Zhenya already represented France with Joffre. “I am very happy that they continue to develop together and become more and more masters of their craft every year,” Khudaiberdieva wrote in a column on the website.

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