September 7, 2006
Iced Energy Rehearsal (Nottingham, UK)
by icenut84
I went to Nottingham today (to skate) and they were having an Iced Energy rehearsal right before my session started, so I got to watch a bit of the rehearsal (I didn't realise at first what rehearsal it was, otherwise I would have gone in there as soon as I arrived! D'oh!) They weren't doing anything too spectacular, just practicing something that I assume is for the finale (as they did the line-up, bow and wave thing a couple of times), steps in sync etc. The music was Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand. I was totally star-struck, couldn't stop staring! Katia Gordeeva is tiny and beautiful. Ilia Kulik was being quite lovey to her, which was cute! Steven Cousins is very tanned! Also saw Sale & Pelletier (Jamie Sale has a kind of bob haircut - don't know how long she's had it for but it looked a bit odd to tell you the truth! And David Pelletier is VERY good looking in person!), Brian Boitano, Sinead & John Kerr (they stayed on the practice session after, practicing their CD and also a few lifts - one inparticular is pretty spectacular), Yuka Sato & Jason Dungjen (Yuka skated by where I was sitting at the end, I was smiling at her and she said hello to me She's very pretty in person too), and Jennifer Robinson. The only one who wasn't there (who I know is on the cast list) was Jeff Buttle - don't know why. Quite a few of them were dancing about to the music (while waiting to practice it again) and messing about. Pelletier randomly threw himself down onto the ice and posed lying down at one point. They all looked in pretty good spirits.
More details on Ekaterina and Ilia:
I don't have much information though! They were just practicing with everyone else. At the end, when they were practicing the line-up and bow one of the times, Katia did it wrong and ended up behind everyone else, they all laughed as she found her way back in to the line. At the very end when they'd finished their practice and were skating off, Ilia was behind Katia and put his arms round her which I thought was cute
Sorry I don't have anything else apart from that! I was only watching for a few minutes. Katia is very petite in person though, and very pretty
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