Dream Coach or Choreographer

[AgnesNitt]

Okay, just for fun: if you had money. Who'd your dream coach or choreographer be?

Mine: Dan Hollander.

Hey, if I'm in a show on or off ice,  I'm  Death, or a dog, or the ugly sister, or the wicked queen. I get the character roles. I figure that's right up Hollander's alley.

n' You?

[jjane45]

I think I want to take a few lessons from my favorite skater, but it will not be productive because I'd be so distracted!

[AgnesNitt]

I was hoping people would come up with people like Don Wilson,  Frank Carroll, Audrey Weisinger, etc. and people I'd never heard of but who contribute as coaches or choreographers. Not just someone who is a famous skater.

Of course, I'm in my 60s I don't think I'd drool over anyone anymore.

[icedancer]

Okay - I'll bite - for choreographer - Phillip Mills - I went to a workshop with him once and it was a BLAST!!  He comes to our rink about once and month to do choreography and the skaters love him.

Dream coach?  My old coach back in Boston... fabulous to skate with. Nice guy.

[supra]

I'm a big Midori Ito fan. I'm not sure really. Lots of good skaters don't make good coaches, lots of crappy skaters make good coaches. If someone's naturally good at something, they're not good at explaining how and why they're able to do something. Anyway, for Midori Ito, I just like her because she seems to have a similar sorta skating style as me (or at least how I imagine myself to be.) I like her powerfulness and general spunk she seemed to have on the ice, especially during the 80s. There's an ideology, of "do what they did to get where they are" so I guess Midori Ito would be the type of skater I aspire to be like. I don't know if she could choreograph, though.

[aussieskater]

Olivier Schoenfelder can ferry (cart??) me round the early level dances, please. 

[icedancer]

Olivier Schoenfelder can ferry (cart??) me round the early level dances, please. 

Or Peter Tcherynychev ...

[Mainiac159]

Coach - Brian Orser
Choreographer - Rene Rocca

[AgnesNitt]

Coach - Brian Orser
Choreographer - Rene Rocca

What? Not Janet Lynn?

I like Brian Orser too.

[SynchKat]

Coach - Brian Orser
Choreographer - Rene Rocca

Brian Orser is pretty awesome. 

I'd love to do a dance with Scott Moir.  While I think he is brooding and arrogant I think our styles would be compatible since I know the coach he started with and I have been trained in the same style.  And I think he would be a strong, protective partner.

[techskater]

I'd love to have Braden Overett choreograph a program for me.   

I enjoyed watching Lyndon Johnston teach, I'd like to take lessons from him. 

[DrillingSkills]

Add me to the list of those who'd like to do a dance with Scott Moir I know he hates the Fourteenstep, so luckily I finally passed that one and don't want to do it again for a while (5 tries was enough!).

As a coach... Tessa Virtue for dance, she seems like a real sweetheart and if I could look 1/100th like her I'd be in heaven or Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon - they're actually coaching and are at an almost accessible distance from where I live, so that option seems just a tiny bit more realistic than the rest of my choices they're also doing some good work with the Quebec junior dance teams, so I feel like they're good developmental coaches, not that I'm anywhere near the junior competitive level. I'm currently focusing on skills (Canadian MITF) so Kurt Browning as a footwork coach would be cool, and Shae-Lynn Bourne for choreography - she seems to draw performance skills out of the skaters she's choreographed for, regardless of style.

Yeah, I have the most exposure to Canadian skaters, what can I say...