Chemistry on Ice

When skating their 4-minute “Ice Dancing” program, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir had not watched the rendition of the French pair who were strong contenders for the Gold Medal at Pyeong Chang's Winter Olympics.

“That's the beautiful thing about skating,” stated Scott.

He recalled a long-ago conversation with Canada's best figure skater that stuck with him.

“Kurt Browning told us once, You compete against other skaters ~ but everyone gets their own 4 minutes. So just control that!”

Of interest: The top two 'Ice Dancing' teams in the world, both share the same coaches in Montreal: former Canadian 'ice dancers' (Patrice Lauzon and Marie-France Dubreuil). During workouts, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir watched the highly skilled French skaters, hundreds of times.

So many contributing skills mold the persona of our Tessa and Scott ~ from the Arts, the selected Music, the Athleticism ~ and today they have become entrepreneurs in this world of 'ice dancing'.

Consider the arts of Tom Thomson and Canada's Group of Seven.

Mix in the athleticism of Wayne Gretzky.

Add the musical combos of Daniel Lanois, folk-song Lauriate of Gordon Lighfoot and Leonard Cohen whose immense music contribution over several decades...is so memorable.

In most musical compositions, there is emotion and sexuality in the lyrics.

All Tessa's and Scott's presentations 'tell a story' and this story complements the foregoing attributes.

With music from Roxanne, they created a legend which won them GOLD!

We still enjoy skating together over these 20 years, states Scott, and I believe that's why we still are. It's more than a friendship...it's romantic as we develop the story as we work with our skilled personnel behind the scenes. Our working relationship is so strong in realizing the essence of the story to be told through choreography and the practised movements on ice. The audience hopefully watches as our story unfolds before their eyes. The presentation captures their attention which in turn captivates us to dance to the music and its lyrics.

Their future is unknown to us ~ but be assured, they will continue to skate and perform in a new capacity and venue. We love you both: TESSA and SCOTT! And wish you much success and enjoyment in your development of 'of dance' and whatever is your next project!

Everybody's youth is a dream ~ a form of chemical madness.
(F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances.
If there is any sensation, both are transformed.
(Carl Yung)

Everybody is a genius!
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.
(Albert Einstein)

Other News from the Canadian Front

'Best Buds' Stand Side by Side on the Podium: “When Canadian Brittany Phelan moved to the skicross discipline from alpine a few years ago, she quickly struck up a friendship with Kelsey Serwa, also Canadian. They describe themselves as 'best buds' now and are often inseparable...training together, hanging out regularly and sometimes even racing against each other. Skicross entered the Olympian lexicon in 2010. On Friday, they stood side-by-side on an Olympic podium. Serwa won Gold and Phelan took the Silver in the women's skicross competition at the Pyeong Chang Winter Games, giving Canada a repeat 1-2 Olympic finish from four years ago in Sochi.

Serwa said, “We didn't come out here to participate. We came out here to win!

To do it together is unbelievable. I'm so pumped!”

Canada's Flag Bearer? Canada has a long list of worthy candidates to receive the closing honour. Tomorrow, Sunday, is the Closing Ceremony for the current Winter Olympics Two possible flag bearers are Kim Boutin and Michael Kingsbury. Personally, I believe Canada should have two...in that when Canada's Team entered the stadium for the Opening Ceremony, it was our long-time ice-dancers, and medal winners over the years, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir who carried the flag.

Pup Rescue: Meagen Duhamel and Eric Radford not only won a Bronze Medal, they made news by rescuing a pup from South Korea's 'dog-meat-trade' and planned to whisk home another one.

Written by MBK...February 24, 2018
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