Word: fadeev
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week Boitano and Witt opened an all-new sequel with shows in Portland, Me., Baltimore and Albany as the first of a projected 25 cities. They were joined by 13 other skaters, including former world champions Alexander Fadeev, Oleg Vasiliev and Elena Valova of the Soviet Union, and Paul Martini and Barbara Underhill of Canada. From the first otherworldly moment, when the skaters emerge in near darkness, forming abstract clusters and patterns to the accompaniment of a reverie about skating by the 19th century writer Alphonse de Lamartine, to the finale adapted from Carmen, in which a love-sick...
Some numbers, to be sure, are traditional. Fadeev does two swooping solos to classical music in billowing black blouses, both with back flips and swanlike dying falls. Martini and Underhill electrify the audience with a smoldering duet to Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. Even the conventional pieces are done as serious art and athletics, far more demanding than in other ice shows and never lapsing into cuteness...