(Photos to come) Flash of lightning: that was Emmy Bronsard and Aissa Bouaraguia waking up the sparse crowd in their rhythm dance at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships on Jan. 6, upending Carol Lane proteges Nadiia Bashynska and Peter Beaumont, the elegant red head. There seems to be a bit of a rivalry emerging […]
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Gabby Daleman: Bumpy Times
For two years, Gabby Daleman has been treading the quaking edge of a bog, trying to find her way out of it, sliding back in. Two steps forward, three steps back. Or is it three steps backward and one step forward, fortified by spirit alone? Always, no matter what happens, Daleman has no intention […]
The Tango Romantica Blues
That Tango Romantica dance? It’s easier said than done. What a twisty, ticklish, gnarly, knotty, exacting, formidable dance it is. It’s no picnic, for sure. It’s been a jaw-breaker for ice dancers all season, and Canada’s best will be giving it a go Friday at the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships. None of the […]
The Road Less Travelled
It had to happen this way: Keegan Messing finding an endlessly adventurous way to prepare for a figure skating competition. There are no straight lines in his approach. He has swung up ladders with heavy merchandise on his back, hurled his way up tall poles, Leaped across a mountain peak or two, picked through […]