After the next release of “Ice Age,” the Internet is literally boiling with comments dedicated to the issue by Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky. In an issue dedicated to world cinema, the couple played the film “Life is Beautiful.” Parents who ended up in a concentration camp are trying to convince their child that everything that is happening around is just a game. That's why they smile, clown around a little and create an atmosphere of fun in every possible way.
Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky Beautiful That Way. Glacial period.. Fragment of the release dated November 26, 2016. Sixth stage. Speech by Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky.
Be sure to check it out! One of my favorite numbers!.. Show this film to your children, be sure... Our children should know and remember that terrible time, which, I hope, God willing, they will never know! – this is how Tatyana Navka described him on Instagram.
Some commentators, without even understanding what was going on, immediately began to be indignant at why Navka and Burkovsky were smiling while dressed in the uniform of Jewish concentration camp prisoners. Some representatives of the Western press decided not to understand the situation, but to immediately shame everyone. A newspaper is a large English publication, for example. In her article, she even posted popular bloggers sharply condemning the act, even calling for the Russian President to force the show's creators to apologize for "making a mockery of the Holocaust."
Some representatives of the Western press decided not to understand the situation, but to immediately shame everyone. Among them is a newspaper Daily MailPhoto: Website screenshot
Ilya Averbukh, head coach and producer of the Ice Age show, who came up with the idea for the number, decided not to stand aside and commented on the situation:
This number is my idea. I did a lot of numbers on military and Jewish themes, absolutely different characters. In the previous program we had a stunning number by Ekaterina Barnabas - an Armenian lullaby, also about tragic events. But no one paid attention, apparently because Tatyana Navka did not perform it. And that's the whole answer. When you live away from this, you think that maybe ours are exaggerating, distorting... But the Daily Mail publishes completely unverified facts in this article. But this is not some newspaper, but one of the first publications in the country.
The theme of this program is world cinema. Each pair illustrated one or another film. A story when parents try to protect their child, paint a different world for him, makes him feel the tragedy even more, it becomes even more painful. And we talk about it. I get the feeling that people didn’t watch either the act or the film. We saw photos of smiling people in robes and made some ridiculous conclusions - from bad taste, illiteracy, lack of education. Perhaps these are the only words that come to mind when you receive this kind of reaction.
One of the largest Russian directors, Karen Shakhnazarov, who more than once addressed military theme, - explained Ilya Averbukh. “And his comments were absolutely excellent.” He said how delicately and delicately everything was done. And these words are much more important. And all this hype is an indicator of modern madness. I would call it “delirium tremens” and insanity.
OPINION FOR
It was sincere to the point of tears
Maria KOLYVANOVA
In 1941, a resolution was adopted on the creation of front-line brigades at theaters. In Moscow alone there were more than seven hundred of them. They couldn’t stage full-fledged performances back then. Therefore, the brigades went to the front, performed directly in the trenches, trying to maintain the morale of those who dig these trenches and those who shoot from them... And it’s hard for me to imagine that at that moment letters would pour in to the Central Committee: “What a feast during the plague! And for some Western newspaper to write about what songs, dances and with what smiles Russians should properly fight.
When Yulia Lipnitskaya skated a program to the theme from “Schindler’s List” at the Sochi Olympics, the judges did not discuss whether she was wearing the right dress or whether a triple sheepskin coat was appropriate for this music. Or was it still necessary to do a quadruple...
Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky danced sincerely and played soulfully. The performance was based on a film where parents, in front of their little son, try to pretend that a concentration camp is some kind of game. Hence this clowning, forced, forced smiles, some exaggerated and ragged movements. The film, which inspired the artists and director, is a tragicomedy in genre, and all the laws of the genre were observed here.
Hence the tears, which many viewers admit. And me too.
Be sure to check it out! One of my favorite numbers! Based on one of my favorite films, “Life is Beautiful”! Show this film to your children, be sure to #ice age @tatiana_navka @aburkovskiy PS: Our children should know and remember that terrible time, which I hope, God willing, they will never know!
OPINION AGAINST
Dance better than vaudeville
Sergey EFIMOV
Navka and Burkovsky got into exactly the same story that actor Alexander Petrov had been in before them. In April, he performed in “Dancing with the Stars” on the Russia 1 channel in the image of a romantic Hitlerite who fell in love with a civilian girl. And the hysteria on the Internet was even stronger than the current one.
Both then and now, in general, the same question arose.
Can we dance about this? About human pain? About tragedies?
“They would have danced on ice skates about the execution at Babi Yar and about the gas chambers,” is a typical response from angry spectators.
In my opinion, the answer to this question is completely obvious: of course, it is possible. Dancing is a form of art, and art can speak about everything. Even about Babi Yar and gas chambers.
This is theoretical.
In practice, expressing the full range of emotions while skating is wildly difficult. Try to reliably portray suffering when you still need to take steps, support, and at the same time it is advisable not to stain the ice with your own blood. The conventions of the genre force the director to use a couple of dozen clichés: looking into the distance like this is sadness, but if that’s the case, it’s already pain.
But if figure skating- this is a theater, then the theater is quite primitive. Everything is fine as long as the vaudeville acts are dancing about love. Beautiful, I love it. But it’s hardly possible to stage a full-scale tragedy on ice. Because in this synthesis of sport and art, sport sticks out like a crooked tooth, overshadowing everything else.
I looked at the concentration camp prisoners dancing on TV and did not feel any indignation. Well, yes, according to the film. Yeah, the plot was conveyed accurately - everything was explained in detail in the program. But what the hell is this art that needs to be conveyed in words. That's not how it works.
MEANWHILE
Peskov about Tatyana Navka’s speech: I’m proud of my wife
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov responded to criticism of his wife Tatyana Navka for performing a number about the Holocaust on the Ice Age project (
Next issue ice show Channel One was dedicated to world cinema. One of the brightest couples of the project - Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky - took to the ice in the costumes of Jewish prisoners of a concentration camp during the Second World War. Striped robes, yellow six-pointed stars on the chest. We danced to the song Beautiful That Way from the famous Italian film “Life is Beautiful.” We skated, all the jury members gave the highest scores. And then the Internet began to growl.
“I hope Averbukh is smart enough to never bring this number to Israel,” “We are in a concentration camp. We are Jews. We are having fun. Life is beautiful”, “This is an entertaining number staged for Russian TV by the famous figure skater Ilya Averbukh. We hope he is ashamed,” “Channel One is really bad with brains.”
Judging by the responses, some viewers were outraged by the hilarity portrayed throughout much of the “Jews in a concentration camp” number.
Be sure to check it out! One of my favorite numbers! Based on one of my favorite films, “Life is Beautiful”! Show this film to your children, be sure to #ice age @tatiana_navka @aburkovskiy PS: Our children should know and remember that terrible time, which I hope, God willing, they will never know!
English-language messages appeared almost immediately. “U should to apologize! My whole family was murdered in babi yar what a sick person are u?” (“You must apologize! My whole family died at Babi Yar, what kind of sick person are you?!”) wrote someone ornaazarya on Tatyana Navka’s Instagram.
Moreover, some angry messages were addressed to Western audiences from “this side.” “Shameful! From Russia” (“Shame! From Russia!”) – for example, a user with the nickname Ukraine-english-news writes on Twitter.
Meanwhile, it was enough to carefully watch this episode of “Ice Age” to understand what was happening. Especially for those who have not watched the film “Life is Beautiful,” the program explained its general idea. The heroes of this picture live despite the circumstances: even when they find themselves in a concentration camp, they are full of life in the name of saving a child. This is the idea that the skaters tried to convey to the public. By the way, director Karen Shakhnazarov, who was present at the recording of the show as a guest member of the jury, said that Burkovsky and Navka managed to convey the essence of the film. This was also noted by many Internet users: “They make films, paint pictures, and stage plays on the themes of the Holocaust. Why can’t this topic be understood in this way?” - tweets @semak515.
“Don’t listen to critics and insults, this is the biomass that is creaking with its rusty fingers, which is now killing in Donbass and burning in Odessa. And the liberals who joined them, always whining and stinking “how bad everything is here,” Navka @spiashchiiagent harshly summed up on Instagram.
This is not just a show. This is a theatre. And it is imperative to raise such topics,” Tatyana Navka commented on the situation to KP. - They need to remember! And if young people look and wonder what it is, and then find out about the Holocaust, concentration camps and the film “Dolce Vita” - then we have hit the mark.
“I don’t really understand this reaction,” Andrei Burkovsky admitted to us. - But I understand that people are all different and everyone has their own opinion. But the negative buzz around our performance is not justified.
The pair's coach Ilya Averbukh said abruptly:
This is not serious. There's nothing even to discuss!
Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky’s performance about the Holocaust was shown in the “Ice Age” program on Channel One. The topic of competition in this episode of the program for all participants was famous films. The couple Navka and Burkovsky chose for their dance an Oscar-winning film about concentration camp prisoners, a tragicomedy Roberto Benigni "Life is Beautiful". Together with his coach Ilya Averbukh, they decided to choose the song Beautiful That Way from this film and appear before the audience in the image of prisoners of a fascist concentration camp - in striped robes and with a Star of David on their chest.
After the speech, many angry comments and messages appeared online and in the press. Some of the viewers who had not seen the film and did not know its plot were amazed to see the skaters in the image of prisoners in a concentration camp happily dancing and fooling around. For those who don't know, the plot of that same film is at the center of tragic story father and son who got into concentration camp. In order to protect his son from the horrors that happen in the camp, as well as from death, the father presents everything that happens to his child as a fun game.
Negative reviews about the dance of Tatiana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky even some world media, including CNN, BBC, The New York Times, The Guardian, left, who did not forget to mention that she is the wife of the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.
Tatyana Navka herself expressed her surprise at the sharp reaction of the Western press: People probably didn’t watch this wonderful film, which won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received three Oscars, the Russian figure skater commented on the attacks in her direction.
An official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke harshly about Western critics Maria Zakharova, who called them cowardly hypocrites and liars. On her Facebook, Zakharova wrote the following lines: WHERE ARE YOU ALL HIDING WHEN MONUMENTS TO THOSE WHO FIGHTED THE HOLOCAUST ARE TOMORROWED IN EUROPE? FOR 30 YEARS IN THE BALTICS THE VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR HUMILIZED BY DENIING CITIZENSHIP - YOU, ..., WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? IT WAS YOU WHO MOCKED THE 2015 MOSCOW VICTORY PARADE, CALLING IT “A MANIFESTATION OF MILITARISM.” AND WHEN SHAVED GUYS WITH SWASTIKA AND TORCHES MARCH IN UKRAINE - WHICH WAY DO YOU TURN IN? AND WHERE DO YOU RUN WHEN THE WAFFEN SS LEGIONARIES ARE ARRANGING PARADES?..., and concluded: THEN YOU ALL WERE SILENT. YOU CAN ONLY DISCUSS SKATES.
Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky - “Beautiful That Way” video
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Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky
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Another episode of the popular ice TV show ended in an international scandal. Tatyana Navka, dancing together with actor Andrei Burkovsky, presented a program in the new episode of “Ice Age” that caused a mixed reaction among the audience. The program was dedicated to world cinema. Tatyana and Andrey chose for their dance the famous film “Life is Beautiful,” which tells about how a father and son end up in a concentration camp. And the man convinces the child that this is all a game in which you need to follow the rules: hide from the soldiers, don’t cry and don’t ask for food.
Navka and Burkovsky went out onto the ice in striped clothes, like those worn by concentration camp prisoners. In her microblog, the figure skater published footage of this performance and admitted: “Be sure to watch it! One of my favorite numbers! Based on one of my favorite films “Life is Beautiful”! Show this film to your children, definitely. PS: Our children should know and remember that terrible time, which I hope, God willing, they will never know!” (hereinafter, the authors’ spelling and punctuation have been preserved—approx. site).
Not all of the athlete’s fans appreciated her enthusiasm. Those who most likely had not seen the film began to be indignant about the number: “Dance based on the Holocaust??? They danced the Holocaust, it's terrible!!! Auschwitz - show. These are the headlines of this monstrosity... And thanks to such numbers, foreigners think that we have gone to the region. Thank you very much, Tatyana. Maybe you had a good idea, but it just turned out to be some kind of game... how can you be such a heartless person!!! there is so much joy and happiness in their performance! It's a shame! These people are a disgrace to Russia! Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought, defended and liberated everyone from the Nazis, and here Navka mocks History so much. A shame! A shame!".
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They did not ignore the number of Navka and Burkovsky and Western media. English, American and Israeli publications were outraged that in entertainment show raised the topic of the Holocaust and called on the creators of the program to apologize for offending people's feelings.
Ilya Averbukh, who gave the number to Navka and Burkovsky, came to their defense. He told reporters that only those who have not seen the film condemn this act. That the show has already raised military, Jewish, and Armenian themes more than once. And that only Tatyana Navka managed to attract attention with her talent and not leave anyone indifferent. According to the famous figure skater, only lack of education and illiteracy could cause such a negative reaction.
Subscribers of Tatyana Navka’s microblog also agree with him. “People, watch this movie. Stop showing your stupidity and ignorance... Tanya, as a Jew living in Israel, I fully support you! The dance moved me to tears! Of course, I would like to mention that the film and dance are still more about the tragedy of the Jewish people. Thank you for such a sincere performance!.. People, well, at least you can look at the number carefully, everything is readable in it, the tragedy is shown there much more and higher than if you just put on mournful faces and black clothes, for example! How can you not notice this? I’m not saying that no one obviously watched the film, and on the sofa how they react to the ratings is generally the tenth thing, and there was nothing like that there, they just hugged and were glad that the number was a success, and all that is written here is it’s just foam, essentially, because none of those writing carefully looked at the issue and didn’t see the film, but they considered it necessary to write here... Averbukh was right when he said that there’s nothing even to discuss here, it’s enough to watch carefully so as not to write all sorts of nonsense later.”
