I have a couple of special guests on my blog for Mother's Day! Cheryl Davis and Jacqui White stopped by for a fun interview. You can read about their competition travels, some Meryl and Charlie costume disasters, and more here.
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05-13-2012, 06:10 AM #1U.S. Ice Dance Junkie
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Interview with Meryl & Charlie's Moms
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Very lovely, thank you for sharing. They seem like super cool moms!
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Loved this interview, and I plan to share it with some friends. Thanks!
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Thank you so much for sharing this. I loved the interview and the pictures too!
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05-13-2012, 05:46 PM #5
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Loved it, interviews from parents are so insightful.
There are mentions of Domnina & Shabalin and Denkova & Staviski here for those who are interested.
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05-13-2012, 05:59 PM #6I <3 Kozuka
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Thank you so much!
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05-13-2012, 06:11 PM #7
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Fantastic interview!
Thanks very much for sharing it with us.
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05-13-2012, 07:41 PM #8
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Lovely interview and pics! Great job!
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05-13-2012, 09:22 PM #9
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Does anyone have an idea what Domnina & Shabalin program she was admiring?
Domnina in a yellow dress with drums? In the 2006 to 2007, maybe 2008 time frame, which would be early in Meryl & Charlie's senior career?
Maybe their Olympic FD to Spirit Dances (Oksana was in gold)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx-euAl326M
Conflated with their Olympic OD, which had drums?
The only really yellow dresses I could find were these two:
2004 CD, she was definitely in yellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wYSPaCcs5w
It's not this one
but I couldn't resist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcl0dQJLHKU
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05-13-2012, 09:42 PM #10aka IceSkate98
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Thank you for sharing, and I love the photos. I also love your blog!
Originally Posted by TanithandBenFan
I have a couple of special guests on my blog for Mother's Day! Cheryl Davis and Jacqui White stopped by for a fun interview. You can read about their competition travels, some Meryl and Charlie costume disasters, and more here.
DORISPULASKI, thanks for the youtube videos!Angie
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05-13-2012, 10:25 PM #11U.S. Ice Dance Junkie
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Thanks so much! Originally Posted by Simone411
Thank you for sharing, and I love the photos. I also love your blog!
DORISPULASKI, thanks for the youtube videos!
Doris, I was trying to figure out which program it was, too. Thanks for the vids!My Writing and Figure Skating Blog
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EDGE OF THE PAST - the sequel
REACHING THE EDGE - free short story
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05-13-2012, 10:27 PM #12
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I've been trying to figure this out too. Maybe it was during a practice and Domnina was wearing a different dress for the dance? But if it were a practice, it would probably have to be a competition that Meryl & Charlie were also competing at. Originally Posted by DORISPULASKI
Does anyone have an idea what Domnina & Shabalin program she was admiring?
Domnina in a yellow dress with drums? In the 2006 to 2007, maybe 2008 time frame, which would be early in Meryl & Charlie's senior career?
Maybe their Olympic FD to Spirit Dances (Oksana was in gold)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx-euAl326M
Conflated with their Olympic OD, which had drums?
The only really yellow dresses I could find were these two:
2004 CD, she was definitely in yellow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wYSPaCcs5w
It's not this one but I couldn't resist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcl0dQJLHKU
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05-14-2012, 01:48 AM #13Tranquillo
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Great interview, thanks. They seem to have such a level head about the sport - no wonder they've raised such grounded kids.
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What a great interview for Mother's Day. Great ladies and families. So sane. So normal. Love it.
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05-14-2012, 02:08 PM #15AKA Calamity Jen
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at Charlie's first Eleanor's Dream costume. No wonder they ditched it!!
They do seem like really level-headed people who've raised level-headed kids. There should be more level-headed people in skating! (though many of you may disagree and long for
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05-14-2012, 05:22 PM #16
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Great interview! I read it on my phone the other day and so I only saw a small picture of Charlie's costume. My first thought was "oh, that is quite bad". Now that I've seen it on my real computer, it's worse. He looks like a chorus member from spamalot!
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05-14-2012, 07:51 PM #17YEAH!
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There is this but it's from 2003 and I don't think they performed it in later years. Meryl & Charlie weren't senior yet, in fact they probably weren't even junior yet in 2003. Originally Posted by DORISPULASKI
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...kipVdg&cad=rja
Their moms have good taste! Samson & Delilah is my favorite D&W program as well and their choices in other dancers were quite voidy.
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Wonderful interview! Thank you - it's always great to get a little picture of the background behind the skaters.
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Very good interview. I had never seen that clip of ER before. It is amazing to see how that routine evolved (both choreography and costuming).
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You said you narrowed it down to five questions, but I would LOVE to read a "part 2" if something like that exists. Great job and great skating moms!
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