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