Basically, I want to blaber on about how much I love figure skating, why, and put some links.
I’ll start with the “why”: Dancing (for me) is a way to express emotions and ideas that exist in music. It is a way for a dancer to express their passion, their character, their joy of life.
In case of ice-skating, there are additional elements that make it more powerful: speed, height, fluency, effortless movement.
The blades, cold and hard, are used to perform soft, round movements, and remind you of the strength and speciality needed to use them, emphasizing the strength of the skater.
Here is a video of world champions in figure skating (and justly so). They are skating to Tchaikovsky. Both of them are beautiful physically, they dance beautifully, they are dressed beautifully, and they give a perfect performance:
Now, maybe the video online does not do their throws justice, because when you see it on TV it is just amazing: it seems like she is actually flying.
Another great skater is Eevgeny Plushenko (think he is also world champion): he skates very confidently, easily, in a relaxed manner. He skates like he knows he’s the champ. Here is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmLj3_WaKe0. He has one performance that is better than the rest but I couldn’t find it.
And he also has some sense of humour…
(of the Crazy kind :worry: ).