14th Lalique Trophy


Thurdsay, 23rd November 2000



Dance practice review

I guess Marie wil have a lot more to say than me ;-)

My notes :
Can be easily fed up by Tango Romantica after hearing it so many times in a row... but that could apply to many others compulsorie dances ;-).
The Chinese used "New York New York", the Hugnetobler a song from Dany Brillant, a french singer (how often do you hear french in ice dancing ?), Lang/Tchernyshev have a very impressive opening diagonal, the Brits skate on a medley of Marylin songs, like "i want to be love by you" and "diamonds are a girl's best friend", Marina and Gwendal are amazing thanks to their speed and intricate ffotwork, Irina Lobacheva looks very nice in blonde (IMHO); for practice she had a fluo orange costume with a 'dress' and a trousers which i think was very nice.
 
 

Special awards during draw :
My special awards during the draw go to :
    Julia Soldatova   (ladies)
    Szabolcs Vidrai   (men)
    Viktoria Shklover / Valdis Mintals  (pairs)
    Isabelle Delobel / Oliver Schoenfelder

Reason of these awards : they were almost the only one NOT dressed in black !
Julia was in a somewhat dark red costume, Szabolcz had a nice green one, Viktoria and Valdis blue ones. And for dance Isabelle was in black but had an open top on her back, what changes a bit from the usual costume skaters usually wear.
 
 

Skatak, scared that pairs practice only start in 3 hours