Skate Canada

[wickedwitch]

katis said:

Thanks

It’s a pity the ISU rules forbid men to wear skirts

;D ;D That is!!!! Women are allowed to wear trousers! So why not men skirts?

Actually, women in ice dance are only allowed to wear trousers on special occasions. So at least the ISU is being equally unfair to both genders.

[Lanie]

It seems like they did well! (I could smack the judges though. ) Go John and Sinead!

[Katis]

wickedwitch said:

Actually, women in ice dance are only allowed to wear trousers on special occasions. So at least the ISU is being equally unfair to both genders.

Oh
well, I kinda agree with that, at least in dances - it looks better when woman wears a dress and man trousers, they look more like a *pair*
But in this case the kilt could look interesting - traditionally

[Melanie]

www.iceskatingintnl.com/current/content/2005sk8can%20d.htm

Thanks for the link Hoo.

The CD

Lying seventh are Sinead & John Kerr, brother & sister from Scotland, who were 12th at worlds and are the twice British champions. She wore a sleeveless, backless blue top with lime green skirt and blue bow on the back. He said, "It’s not our favorite dance. It’s not a skater’s dance." Their coach, Joan Slater, said, "There are conflicting edges and it’s gap-y (meaning there’s a lot of space between the partners)." They’re hoping the Tango Romantica will be picked for the Olympics.



The OD:
"Advancing from seventh to sixth were the Kerrs. The brother and sister - she is 27 and he 25 - began with Speak Up Mambo by A. Castellanos and I. Marin, progressed into El Raton by Romero, and finished with Baracuda by Carlinhos Brown. Dressed in silvered blue with a long fringe and a bared back and arm bands for her and a black and a bared chest for him. It was a vibrant if not perfect performance.

Very noticeable was her lower back tattoo. She explained, "JP (their long time ballroom instructor John Paul Deloose) said I should get one to remind me of my back so I would shake it more. He felt I wasn’t sexy enough last season." Her brother said that it was early in the season and, "We’re still thinking about the technical elements. It still has a way to go from a performance stand point. You have to put in the hours and miles to make that second nature."

The FD

Bagpipes were invented to stir fear into Scotland’s enemies. The strange sound of this strange instrument would travel in advance of the kilt-attired marching soldiers. Poor unsophisticated folk who had never heard such noise or seen such beings with their painted blue faces would flee in terror before the battle even began.

The Kerrs didn’t mean to convey quite that ferocity, but they did want to project their Scottish heritage, something which has never been done before on the ice. It’s a pity the ISU rules forbid men to wear skirts. John has always worn his kilt to functions and skaters’ banquets and hopes to do so in an exhibition. He did, however, have tartan as part of his outfit with tartan flares in his trousers. She wore a turquoise and mauve outfit that had strings over a bare back and part of the bodice with a tartan bow on one side and on her back.

Maybe the music scared the judges who dropped them from sixth after the original to seventh overall. The British champions train in the Deeside rink in northern Wales where their coach, Joan Slater, a former British champion and world silver medalist, is based which is several hours drive from their home in Livingston. When possible, she comes up to Scotland to the Murrayfield rink in Edinburgh nearer their home. Talking of how they performed their routine, John said, "It’s not bad. There’s still a long way to go.

"We went to Chris for both the original and free. He really worked with us with the fundamentals but left us to fill in the elements." They use three updated pieces of Scottish music played on the bagpipes by The Porridge Men, Coronach, Gulravage, Planet Porridge and then return to Coronach for the finish. "The musicians are not famous at all. We were walking down Prince’s Street, which is the main road in Edinburgh. There are all these tourist shops. We were walking past one and we heard this music coming out of one of them and just knew we should use it.



www.iceskatingintnl.com/current/content/2005sk8can%20d.htm