A couple days ago aired an interview with Elina Goidina - the junior skater from Estonia, she spoke about a lot of things, from the difficulties of balancing sport and school, to her new programs. 

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**On her new programs** 

Goidina has prepared two new programs for the season. Russian choreographer Sergei Komolov choreographed the free skate to *Dracula: A Love Tale* for her. The individual selections are: “I Can do Everything” by Christopher Lennertz, “Music Box” and “The Dance” by Danny Elfman, and “Victoriam Speramus” by Krypteria.  
“We decided on the music about half a year ago,” the skater revealed. She watched the 2025 film and immediately wanted to skate to its music. Komolov agreed that it was a good choice.

“I play Dracula’s wife, who is killed at the beginning,” Goidina explained of her character. “Then she is reborn, and she has dreams about what happened in her past life. Then she meets Dracula and starts to remember and to love him again. I really like the music and the costume that I’m going to have.”

Richaud built the new short program to Spanish-inspired music. The music is set to an AI version of “Dios es un stalker” originally performed by Rosalía.

“This music has a somewhat modern version of the tango,” Goidina explained. “It’s an interesting rhythm! The metaphor ‘God as a stalker’ is how you cannot hide your secrets. It makes this music even more interesting. When I heard this piece, I realized immediately that I wanted to skate to it.”

Goidina added that at the time the music was selected, the question arose as who would choreograph it.  
“There were several options and I am very glad that Benoît Richaud became the choreographer,” she said. “I really like the program and I am very grateful to him.”

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The full interview (in English) is available [here.](https://www.goldenskate.com/estonias-elina-goidina-growing-into-her-own/) It’s a pretty nice read.

PS - remember the recent post about Rozanov, where I mentioned two junior skaters that confirmed that he’s still abusing his athletes?

At the time I didn’t want to say who it was because I knew that post would go viral, but she was one of them. 

Thankfully she’s in better hands now. Good luck to her and I hope she’s able to land her 3A that she’s working on so much. 

Also.. an AI version of a song…? Yikes. Benoit I’m disappointed in you. 

“I play Dracula’s wife, that’s killed in the beginning” - interview with Elina Goidina