We are reviving our Muse free skate from the 2014-2015 season, in which we had an undefeated season. Our long program will be constructed after we return from a 2-week vacation. We got the best of both worlds by working with the two of them, and I am so grateful to have had this opportunity, because in my opinion, we’ve created a short program that is natural, organic, seamless and pure but still unlike anything we’ve done before, with more shapes, movement and colour then in the past. On top of it all, him and Julie work so well together. We also toured with John a few years ago, and we know he is a great person, passionate about skating and very creative and insightful. We had so much respect for the work he did with the German and French teams last season.
We hoped that working with John would bring a new colour to our skating, a fresh touch so to speak. Eric and I weren’t sure what to expect and came in with a fresh mind ready to work. We just finished a week of working with Julie and our new choreographer, John Kerr, on the program. It gave us hope for the future, hope that we, as a team, would be back and hope that we really could evolve and grow our skating to a level it has never been. It was an emotional roller coaster, but listening to April’s version of “With or Without You” gave us all hope. This was post-Worlds Eric was still struggling with his injury, I was struggling with the acceptance of what had happened this past season and why would I want to continue if I couldn’t control my own performances? And we were in discussions of adding new members onto our choreography and coaching team. It’s worth noting that during this time we were all highly sensitive. Her voice was raw, powerful and captivating, and Julie, Eric and I sat there in tears listening to it. Then Julie appeared, with an unheard of version by April Meservy.
We love the piano, we feel like it sums up “us”, and we feel passionately connected to the music and emotion, so it seemed like a no brainer. Once again this spring, Eric brought up the idea of skating to it. Since 2011/2012 Eric has suggested that we skate to the instrumental version of “With or Without You”, but that season we opted for “Coldplay” and we found that “With or Without You” was too similar, so we just set it aside. This season is about being us, our team and our personal journey! We don’t want to try to be something we aren’t we want to own our programs by bringing our unique story and passion to the audience. This year, we decided to do what “Meagan and Eric” want to do. I am now on a mini vacation, but before I left for vacation, the Olympic season officially started as we had our short program choreographed.
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