Impressive footwork

	I was watching the world championship ice skating competition
	the other night, and saw something pretty impressive:

	Canadian ice dancer Kraatz and his partner are apparently 
	known for nice interaction, but shaky footwork; so they
	started working with a New York choreographer to correct this.
	This choreographer's prior project had been the American 
	verison of "Riverdance", and he proceeded to teach this 
	couple how to do it on ice skates!  Now while ice dancing is
	not as physically exhausting as the solo routinues, it's still
	not exactly a walk in the park; and to do the entire thing to
	Irish music is a definite feat.  And then I watched them do
	actual hard shoe rallies = step-stamp-tap-tap-hop-back times 
	about 4!  They threw in some assorted other step-dance moves
	in between the skating footwork, you can't criticize them for
	footwork any longer!  Watch for them in the Olympics!

				Quarong
				<quarong at eskimo.com>