So, after my snarky post about judged events yesterday, I found myself captivated by ice dancing later that evening. What caught my attention was the performance of Tessa Virtue and some guy she danced with with, and their graceful, classy, rather beautiful performance. He did have a Seinfeld “pirate shirt,” but by and large, they looked fantastic. And their movement was swan-like (helped along by Virtue’s lovely bare back).
The next performers left us laughing out loud. If Virtue and her man represented what ice dancing could be, the following acts served as parodies of themselves. The costumes from the Americans and Russians, who earlier achieved a cultural-wardrobe-malfunction by appropriating first peoples in a crude way, represented a mix of Mad-Max, Fraggle Rock and a 1976 vision of the future. They couples could have walked off the cover of a drug store romance novel:
Grace wins. We all win.
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