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DiManno: Pioneer dancers fresh and sassy as ever
October 30, 2011
Rosie DiManno
Ice dance gold medallists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada perform their free dance at the Skate Canada International figure skating competition Sunday in Mississauga. They danced to Funny Face.
Paul Chiasson/THE CANADIAN PRESSThey could have danced all night.
And still have danced some more . . .
Hold it: wrong music, wrong movie. Not My Fair Lady — though she is — butFunny Face: totally right and utterly befitting as yet another gorgeous ice dance showcase for Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, now channelling Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.
The team’s new free dance number was introduced on the Grand Prix circuit Sunday to thundering approval from the audience at Mississauga’s Hershey Centre, a standing ovation, and typically stratospheric scores.
Another title added to the growing pile for Canada’s Olympic gold medallists and 2010 world champions. But not Skate Canada victors from a year ago — which they watched from the stands, sidelined by Virtue’s shin surgery.
Constant reinvention is what keeps this team fresh and sassy, in a skating discipline where rule restraints stifle innovation. Yet they manage, year after year, to pull out the never-before-seen and breathtaking as pioneering dancers on blades: sensuous, playful, interpretive, athletic, the whole seamless package.
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