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The sparkling ice show is back! Stars of theatre, cinema, television and sports will try on skates and compete for the scores of impartial judges led by Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova. Where, if not in a tough fight, are the characters of star heroes best revealed?

Ilya Averbukh: “We were off the air for two years. During this time, both we and the audience managed to miss “Ice Age”. Eat good proverb about how difficult it is to step into the same river twice. Of course, we are very worried, because this is not the first or even the fifth season for us! And with each season it becomes more and more difficult to make an ice show: the demands of the audience are growing, the level of skating in previous projects was already very high, and it is necessary to maintain it.

Glacial period. Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky 10/01/2016 (Channel One)

We spend a lot of time training. I don’t want the viewer to get the impression that he has already seen it. It is important for me that the artists do not just skate with great champions, but that each performance leaves an aftertaste for at least five minutes. Viewers will be pleasantly surprised by the participation of Olympic champion Maxim Trankov in our project.”

Performance by Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky in the show " glacial period"with a number about the Holocaust caused a mixed reaction in society and the media. Peskov expressed pride in his wife who danced in the clothes of a concentration camp prisoner. And Averbukh accused the Western media of inciting hysteria around Navka’s dance.

Navka was surprised by the media reaction to the dance about the Holocaust

Olympic champion Tatyana Navka commented on the controversial reaction to her ice dance performance with actor Andrei Burkovsky, writes MK.

Earlier, as Topnews wrote, Western media criticized Navka and Burkovsky, who danced in prison clothes. However, the dance was based on Roberto Benigni’s tragicomedy “Life is Beautiful” about the Holocaust.

Navka said she was surprised by the strange reaction of the media. She suggested that the critics did not see the picture, the music from which was used in the issue intkbbee about prisoners of Auschwitz.

Navka and Burkovsky. Speech on the Holocaust. VIDEO

Figure skater Tatyana Navka and actor Andrei Burkovsky performed an ice dance in the show “Ice Age” on Channel One, dedicated to the Holocaust. The athletes took to the ice dressed as Jewish prisoners of a concentration camp during World War II and danced to the song “Beautiful That Way” from the famous Italian film “Life is Beautiful.”
“Be sure to check it out! Based on one of my favorite films, Life is Beautiful! — Tatyana Navka wrote on on your Instagram page. “Show this film to your children, for sure. Our children must know and remember that terrible time, which I hope, God willing, they will never know!” - she emphasized.

Peskov commented on the performance of Navka and Burkovsky

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the performance of his wife Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky in the image of Auschwitz prisoners, RT reports.

“I don’t think this is an issue that somehow concerns the Kremlin. Due to my work, I am significantly limited in my ability to comment on this. I’m proud of my wife, that’s what I can say,” Peskov said in response to a request to comment on the reaction of the world media to the speech of Navka and Burkovsky.

The Jewish community approved scandalous dance Navka about the Holocaust, and the chief rabbi of Moscow expressed doubts

In the speech of Tatyana Navka and Andrei Burkovsky with a number about the Holocaust at television show There is nothing offensive about “Ice Age,” Mark Grubarg, chairman of the Jewish community of St. Petersburg, told Baltika FM.

According to him, some bloggers and journalists artificially “inflated the story” on the topic of insulting feelings after watching ice show. The speech of Navka and Burkovsky gave another reason to remember the Holocaust and comprehend the lessons of the past, the head of the community is sure.

“Many people are outraged that they are trying to talk about the Holocaust in the language of the show. But many wonderful films are devoted to the topic of the Holocaust. Why is a film possible, but a show is not? Is it worth labeling any genre?” Grubarg was indignant.

All works of art without mockery and deliberate humiliation of this or that community, they have the right to exist, says the chairman of the Jewish community. In his opinion, whether Navka and Burkovsky’s show meets the criteria of good taste will become clear after some time.

As the organization explained, the scandalous dance was conceived as a work about love, faith and victory over difficult reality. “And I advise everyone who is concerned about insulting Jews to come to the synagogue to engage in a serious study of Judaism and the history of the Holocaust,” Grubarg added.

In turn, the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, President of the Council of Rabbis of Europe Pinchas Goldschmidt did not approve of the performance of the wife of press secretary Dmitry Peskov in the show “Ice Age” in the image of an Auschwitz prisoner.

In his opinion, Tatyana Navka and her dance partner Andrei Burkovsky should have consulted with the relatives of the prisoners Nazi concentration camp before performing a dance about the Holocaust.

“Many people liked it, but many were offended by the dance. The Holocaust and everything connected with it is too big a wound. She won't live for a long time. There are almost no Jewish families in which none of the ancestors suffered from Nazism or wore yellow stars, like on the costumes of figure skaters,” TASS quotes the rabbi.

According to Goldschmidt, the creators of the dance number needed to take care of the feelings of the victims' family members and consult with them in advance. The Chief Rabbi of Moscow expressed the hope that the directors wanted to convey the will to live and the best hopes of the concentration camp prisoners.

“Probably, the intentions were good, but every nation has its own pain, and we must try not to touch a nerve. I wouldn’t like to see anti-Semitism here,” Goldschmidt said.

Ilya Averbukh accused Western media of inciting hysteria: they confused Navka with Tatmyanina

Meanwhile, figure skater and producer Ilya Averbukh called it savagery how foreign media reported news about the dance of Tatyana Navka and actor Andrei Burkovsky in the images of Auschwitz prisoners in the show “Ice Age,” writes Lenta.ru.

“It’s crazy that this can be discussed at all. The savagery is in everything - in the presentation, in the hysteria, in the lack of professionalism that can be seen in the articles of foreign media,” says Averbukh.

As an example, he cited an article in the British Daily Mail, which confused Navka with another Olympic champion in figure skating— Tatyana Totmyanina. In the published photo, Totmyanina stands next to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the caption to the photo talks about Navka. Averbukh called it a “big blunder.”

Tatiana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky

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Another episode of the popular ice TV show has ended 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. Tatiana and Andrey chose for their dance famous movie“Life is Beautiful,” which tells the story of 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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The Western media did not ignore the number of Navka and Burkovsky. 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 military, Jewish, and Armenian themes have been raised more than once in the show. 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.”

Over the course of 10 years, the show “Ice Age” on Channel One showed many numbers dedicated to the Second World War. But the recent performance of Tatyana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky in the images of the heroes of the film “Life is Beautiful” - prisoners of Auschwitz - caused a mixed reaction. And although the topic of the broadcast was initially dedicated to Western cinema and fans of the couple highly appreciated the drama of the performance, negative reviews unexpectedly appeared in the Western media.

Let us remember that the cult film by Roberto Benigni was based on the story of an Auschwitz prisoner who ended up in a death camp with his son and did everything to make the child believe that all the horror happening around is just a game. The film became a sensation in its time, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and received three Oscar awards, including in the category Best movie in a foreign language."

On the eve of the broadcast of the program, Navka addressed fans of the Ice Age show: “Be sure to watch it! One of my favorite numbers! Based on one of my favorite movies, Life is Beautiful! 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!”

Navka and Burkovsky embodied the plot of this famous film on ice to the music of composer Nikola Piovani, which sounded in the film. Those who saw “Life is Beautiful” appreciated the idea of ​​the skaters, coach and choreographers. The jury members who gave the maximum marks admitted that it was perhaps one of the most vivid and emotional performances in the entire history of the project. But in order to understand the meaning of this speech, you still need to watch Roberto Benigni’s outstanding drama.

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Figure skating unexpectedly became a new stumbling block and a reason for loud disputes between Russia and the West. Moreover we're talking about not about major sporting events, but about one issue from television project"Glacial period".

November 26, 2016 at next issue programs "Ice Age" couple Tatyana Navka - Andrey Burkovsky presented the number “Beautiful That Way”, in which the participants appear as Jewish prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp. The performance received the highest scores from the project judges.

In the West, this issue attracted unexpected attention from the press. The reason was primarily due to her partner: Tatyana Navka, Olympic champion in sports dancing on ice, is the wife press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov.

The Western media considered the issue “tasteless” and taking an incorrect tone towards the victims of the Holocaust.

“They sunk to such lows for the sake of fame”

“Vladimir Putin's Spokesman's Wife Under Fire for Ice Dance About the Holocaust,” Time headlines.

“Tatyana Navka, the wife of Putin’s aide, drew criticism with her Holocaust-themed ice performance,” The Huffington Post writes.

CNN quoted the words Jeremy Jones, Director of International Relations at the Australian Council on Israel Affairs:“The frivolity that led to the decision to stage this number is maddening... After they are forgotten as skaters, they will remain in memory as people who sunk to such baseness for the sake of fame.”

TV channel Russia Today published a commentary by the chief rabbi of Moscow, chairman of the Council of Rabbis of Europe, head of the rabbinical court in the CIS and Baltic countries Pinchas Goldschmidt:“I would like to believe that the dance directors wanted to convey the will to live and the best hopes of the concentration camp prisoners. Many people liked it, but many were offended by the dance. Because the Holocaust and everything connected with it is too big a wound. She won't be alive anytime soon. There are almost no Jewish families in which none of the ancestors suffered from Nazism or wore yellow stars, like on the costumes of figure skaters. The feelings of the victims and their families had to be taken into account. Consult. Probably, the intentions were good, but every nation has its own pain, and we must try not to touch a nerve. I wouldn’t like to see anti-Semitism here.”

Some Russian users of social networks also reacted quite emotionally, among whom, however, there were many Ukrainian ones:

“Do they really think that everything is fine?”

"Ernst in the furnace"

“In Germany they would definitely have given a sentence”

“It’s time to ask Santa Claus for a fence with Mordor. I don’t see any more options"

“You can only discuss skates”

Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted: “I don’t think that this is an issue that in any way concerns the Kremlin, and due to my work, I am significantly limited in my ability to comment on this. I'm proud of my wife. That's all I can say."

The reaction was extremely emotional official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. On her Facebook page she wrote: “I would name it, but they’ll ban me....

Haaretz, Daily Mail, Huffington Post and dozens of others all wrote about Tatyana Navka’s Holocaust-themed dance number.

They didn't like the number! The image of the prisoners of Auschwitz, you see, is not embodied on ice as it should be. Defenders of tolerance? Nothing like this! Hypocrites and liars. Moreover, they are cowardly hypocrites and liars fulfilling a political order.

Where are you all hiding when monuments to those who fought the Holocaust are being demolished in Europe? For 30 years in the Baltics they humiliated World War II veterans by denying them citizenship - where have you been? It was you who mocked the victory parade in Moscow in 2015, calling it a “manifestation of militarism.” And when shaved guys with swastikas and torches march in Ukraine, which way do you turn? And where do you run when the Waffen-SS legionnaires organize parades? And when officials in Poland said that Auschwitz was liberated by Ukrainians, not Soviet troops, thereby insulting the memory of soldiers of many nationalities, why didn’t you point out to them the inadmissibility of politicizing an immortal feat?

Then you were all silent. You can only discuss skates.”

What really happened

Tatyana Navka herself said in an interview with Life: “This is not the first time that the themes of war have been raised in our project; personally, this is not the first time I have performed a performance in the clothes of concentration camp prisoners. This is our creativity, and before it somehow did not cause any reaction in the world. And this means that we make people think. I hope that many simply have not seen this film, and when they do, they will look at our wonderful act with different eyes,” she added.

The idea of ​​the act that Navka and Burkovsky showed belonged to Ilya Averbukh, Vice-champion of the Olympics and world champion in ice dancing, and now a successful producer of ice shows.

In the Ice Age project he acts as a coach and producer.

The number is a reimagining of the film Roberto Benigni"Life is Beautiful", which in 1998 was awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and two Oscars.

According to the plot of the film, the Italian Guido, a Jew by nationality, ends up in a concentration camp with his son. Trying to protect the child from horrors, Guido explains to his son that everything that happens around him is a game. The boy in it needs to score 1000 points to get the main prize: a tank. Points are given upon unconditional compliance with a number of rules: it is forbidden to show your face to the soldiers, cry, complain or ask for food. The child believes his dad, despite death, pain and blood around him.

At the end of the film, the prisoners are freed, the boy is reunited with his mother, but his father dies at the hands of a Nazi.

For Navka and Burkovsky’s number, music was taken from the film “Life is Beautiful.” Just like in the movie, in the room main character dies: machine gun fire is heard, and he disappears into the darkness.

“90% of speakers did not see the number at all”

Ilya Averbukh reacted very harshly to criticism of the number: “90% of the speakers did not see the number at all, they don’t understand what was being discussed. For such people, I am ready to explain once again: the theme of the program was “world cinema,” the performance was based entirely on the great film “Life is Beautiful,” directed by Roberto Benigni, which received three Oscars. A family ends up in a concentration camp, where in order to save their child, they act out the story throughout the film that it's all simple big game. For those who haven’t watched the movie, there was a special text for 15 seconds, a direct quote from the film, when Tanya and Andrey really stood with faces full of sorrow, where it was said: “Son, it’s just a game.” It was for him that this number was played, which had everything: and dramatic story, and struggle, and ridicule, and the severity of loss when Andrei passes away, leaving his family. This is an exceptional quote from the film. An absolutely normal reaction associated with the fact that you really want to bite. There is a direct road: Navka - Peskov - Putin. That's all. A photograph was taken of people dressed as concentration camp prisoners smiling. Without thinking about anything, we might as well grab a still from the movie “The Great Dictator.” Charlie Chaplin, where he depicts Hitler, this level is exactly the same, just to yap.”

Head of Department public relations Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Borukh Gorin in an interview with Interfax, he said: “The turn that the discussion of this act has taken - an attempt to condemn it from ideological or moral positions - seems to me completely inappropriate, since addressing the topic of the Holocaust as such, especially with artistic interpretation, when performers associate themselves with the victims , worthy of all respect and gratitude... All the condemning reactions that we have witnessed are not just exaggerated, but catastrophically exaggerated... Talking in 2016 about whether it is worth creating various kinds of works on the topic of the Holocaust is no longer the same, Why argue whether wind is needed? It exists, and it is part of the cultural space.”

Daily Mail “replaced” Navka Totmyanina

And one last thing. The British newspaper Daily Mail, which considered the smiles on the faces of Navka and Burkovsky unacceptable, since they “do not fit well with the monstrous theme” of the Holocaust, managed to make a gross mistake in the material. In the material on the website, under a photograph with the explanation “Peskov’s wife is to the right of Putin,” they posted a photograph in which it is not Tatyana Navka standing next to the president, but Tatiana Totmyanina. She is also a figure skater, also an Olympic champion, but not Dmitry Peskov’s wife, but figure skater Alexei Yagudin. It is clear that the Daily Mail knows little about Russian beauties and Olympic champions. But maybe then you shouldn’t talk about what you don’t understand?