Bracknell Ice Skating Club Newsletter - February 2005
Artistic Proves Enjoyable Event
A total of 31 skaters took part in 20 solo and nine group numbers
in the club’s annual artistic competition on January 25 — almost the
same numbers as last year.
Although very well organised, the event was marred by problems in
the AV room which affected the music skated to by three members.
Unlike most skating competitions, artistics are less about ability
and technique and more about entertainment. But entertainment seemed
lacking from many of this year’s programmes although most of the
audience, and the judges, thoroughly enjoyed the event.
Unfortunately the emphasis on costumes, props and even scenery also
often makes it more about how much parents are prepared to pay or
how ingenious they are at making these things than about skating.
Because the marking scheme is different to normal competitions in
that each of the five judges marks a particular aspect of the
programme and gives a mark for entertainment value, it means that
someone with little technical ability but excellent costume and
props can score the same as a highly skilled skater with a very
technical programme and that is why artistics are so popular with
those skaters who generally don’t do well otherwise.
Subjects this year ranged from Charlotte Pollecutt-Gray’s enchanting
Fairy and Sophie Torrington’s Ugly Bug to Holly Kirkbride’s Cruella
DeVil and Holly Jordan, Zoe McBride and Hannah Connor’s Car Wash
girls.
It was a shame there were no solo boys above the lowest class and
only Harvey Clarke’s Match of the Day programme had any flair or
imagination, but one thing members seem to have taken on board is
the cute factor — hence Rhiannon Bailey’s popularity with Holly
Kirkbride and Emily Farrow in their Mambo/Macarena and with her
brother James in Stick It In The Family Album while tiny Tani Turner
was good with Anna and Claire Minchinton in their excellent
performance of The Marvellous Toy.
The trophy for the most entertaining programme was won by Seren
Tudor for her energetic Elvis and the trophy for the best
costume/props was won by Claire Minchinton for her magical Mr
Mistopholees cat outfit complete with flashing lights.
Results:
Solo, Level 1 and under: Harvey Clarke, 1st, Sophie Torrington 2nd,
Amy Barnes 3rd, Ellie Hetebrij 4th, Jordan Brown 5th, Claire Lawley
6th, Kali Turner 7th, Charlotte Pollecutt- Gray 8th, Edward Bissell
9th;
Level 2 and 3: Olivia Clarke 1st, Holly Jordan 2nd, Hannah Connor
3rd, Claire Minchinton 4th, Zoe Mc-Bride 5th, Emily Kellas 6th,
Rachel Kellas 7th.
Level 4 and above: Holly Kirkbride 1st, Seren Tudor 2nd, Hannah
Hetebrij 3rd, Bethany Jarvis 4th.
Groups: Anna Minchinton, Claire Minchinton and Tani Turner 1st,
Holly Jordan, Zoe Mc-Bride and Hannah Connor 2nd; Holly Kirkbride,
Rhiannon Bailey and Emily Far-ow 3rd, Rebecca Brenikov and Anastasia
Brenikov 4th, Olivia Clarke, Harvey Clarke and Ellie Hetebrij 5th,
Hannah Hetebrij and Robyn Vaughan 6th, Rhiannon Bailey and James
Bailey 7th, Rachael Cornish and Alana Hudson 8th, Abigail Hurst and
Melissa Dron 9th.
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