Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Let's Just Get Right to Johnny's New Beyoncé Number, Shall We?

Beautiful Johnny takes the ice to debut his sizzling new Beyoncé program at Art2Skate. Detail of an exclusive photo © David Keyser below.



OK! We begin our possibly very lengthy series of Art2Skate posts with that thing you’ve all been waiting for.

And it would have been here sooner, but as I mentioned on social media, we experienced a super-frustrating glitch with the video camera and have been working to salvage what we could of our footage, which in no way made me totally freak out this entire week. Fortunately we were able to rescue his Beyoncé debut from Friday’s show, and thus we present 30+ exclusive photos and, yes, VIDEO, of this spectacular new program which I’m hoping we’ll see many many many more times this year (please let this be a thing in Artistry on Ice this summer. Because if ever a program deserved a Weibocalypse of its own, it’s this one).

As you might imagine, we came home from our 1,500-mile roundtrip with a ridiculous amount of photos and at least some video, including gorgeous rehearsal stuff, so we’ll keep plowing through and shoveling it all out here as fast as we can. For today, please enjoy this first set of exclusive photos plus bonus fun stuff (including more exclusive video!) at the end of the post. Much more to come!

Note: Nearly all the exclusive pics below are pleasingly huuuuuuge, so click on any photo to see it in all its full-size glorious detail.



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His face is blurred in these because he’s moving his head and shoulders in time to the music, as you’ll in the video below, while he performs his signature slide. Core strength level: superhuman.

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A happy Johnny acknowledges the cheers and applause from his home rink crowd.

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VIDEO!




Video link.



ICYMI BONUS STUFF


Friday: I arrive at the center of our fandom universe.




Rehearsal clips from Friday! Gorgeous photos and HD video to come....







With members of the 1st State Ice Theatre group of Delaware, who presented their Rocky Horror Picture Show tribute during Friday’s show.


Via Facebook.


Cast photo! #wheresJohnny


Via Facebook.


From the Saturday morning Q&A / meet-n-greet. Featuring: Jen Warfield (top left); our beloved Bernadette (middle left and top right); Chris Krafft (bottom left); Binky (bottom middle); and, of course, a sparkly and thoroughly enjoyable Johnny.




One more rehearsal clip, from Saturday.




Preview of his Saturday Creep, also by Davey.




And finally: he was amazing with all the kids. Every. Last. One.




And, as promised, here is the exclusive video of that adorable little fan meeting Johnny (with bonus Patti Weir!):



Video link.



Exclusive photos © David Keyser.