by Anne Calder
Shauna Vorhees is fifteen and lives solely 5 minutes away from the Chandler Arizona Ice Den. In contrast to most of the different dancers, she was a bit older when she first laced up her skates.
IDC: How did you become involved with ice skating?
Shauna: I used to be 9 after I went to a party and preferred it rather a lot. I skated at a few public classes after which joined the Be taught to Skate lessons. I actually loved it and was all the time excited to go, so I continued with non-public classes. I began making applications with components to songs, then started doing competitions.
IDC: Do you go to public college within the space?
Shauna: I attend Corona del Sol Excessive Faculty in Tempe, Arizona. There are loads of skaters who go to my college. It’s good to have connections in school if you’re skating. It’s a pleasant neighborhood to be a part of…
IDC: What do you want greatest about Solo Dance?
Shauna: I like how one can compete and likewise do a bunch of various types with totally different rhythms and totally different dances – just like the waltz that’s elegant and also you sort of circulate throughout the ice. Then there’s additionally Latin dances just like the Cha Cha the place you must be very sharp and passionately enthusiastic about it. I feel it’s very cool to see the distinction within the totally different types.
IDC: What’s your favourite rhythm?
Shauna: I like Latin – Cha Cha is extra thrilling with the totally different actions that go together with it.
IDC: What about music for the Free Dance?
Shauna: I like the identical factor – Tango, Cha Cha. My ardour is to bop to that music.
IDC: How lengthy have you ever been doing Solo Dance?
Shauna: I’ve been doing Solo Dance with Naomi Lang for 3 years. I assumed it seemed attention-grabbing, then after I tried it, I obtained excited and fell in love with it. I simply sort of wished to maintain persevering with with it.
IDC: What in regards to the camaraderie in Solo Dance?
Shauna: That’s one more reason I like Solo Dance. The neighborhood has all the time been so sturdy, particularly to me as I began it. Right here now we have our Solo Dance Workforce and everybody was so welcoming. Even when competing towards one another, we don’t let that get in the best way of our friendships. We help one another at competitions – even skaters from different locations we help them, and so they help us. It’s only a very pleasant loving neighborhood.
IDC: What skating objectives have you ever set for this season?
Shauna: It’s principally about enhancing. I simply need to have the ability to hold doing higher. If I get a stage 2 on my twizzles, I need to get a stage 3 on the subsequent competitors. It’s not like I need to get first place, it’s about enhancing, after which I can attain these objectives.
IDC: What’s your favourite skating reminiscence?
Shauna: In Arizona, now we have this competitors referred to as Fiesta Skate. Two years in the past it was my first Solo Dance competitors. I didn’t know what was occurring. Everybody was so supportive. I ended up doing actually good. I used to be capable of make new buddies there. Naomi and everybody have been so welcoming despite the fact that I used to be new to it.