by Anne Calder
Shauna Vorhees is fifteen and lives only five minutes yonder from the Chandler Arizona Ice Den. Unlike many of the other dancers, she was a bit older when she first laced up her skates.
IDC: How did you get involved with ice skating?
Shauna: I was nine when I went to a birthday party and liked it a lot. I skated at a couple of public sessions and then joined the Learn to Skate classes. I really enjoyed it and was unchangingly excited to go, so I unfurled with private lessons. I started making programs with elements to songs, then began doing competitions.
IDC: Do you go to public school in the area?
Shauna: I shepherd Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona. There are a lot of skaters who go to my school. It’s nice to have connections at school if you are skating. It’s a friendly polity to be part of…
IDC: What do you like weightier well-nigh Solo Dance?
Shauna: I like how you can compete and moreover do a tuft of variegated styles with variegated rhythms and variegated dances – like the waltz that’s elegant and you kind of spritz wideness the ice. Then there’s moreover Latin dances like the Cha Cha where you have to be very sharp and passionately excited well-nigh it. I think it’s very tomfool to see the unrelatedness in the variegated styles.
IDC: What is your favorite rhythm?
Shauna: I like Latin – Cha Cha is increasingly heady with the variegated movements that go withal with it.
IDC: What well-nigh music for the Free Dance?
Shauna: I like the same thing – Tango, Cha Cha. My passion is to flit to that music.
IDC: How long have you been doing Solo Dance?
Shauna: I’ve been doing Solo Flit with Naomi Lang for three years. I thought it looked interesting, then when I tried it, I got excited and fell in love with it. I just kind of wanted to alimony standing with it.
IDC: What well-nigh the esprit in Solo Dance?
Shauna: That’s flipside reason I love Solo Dance. The polity has unchangingly been so strong, expressly to me as I started it. Here we have our Solo Flit Team and everyone was so welcoming. Plane when competing versus each other, we don’t let that get in the way of our friendships. We support each other at competitions – plane skaters from other places we support them, and they support us. It’s just a very friendly loving community.
IDC: What skating goals have you set for this season?
Shauna: It’s mostly well-nigh improving. I just want to be worldly-wise to alimony doing better. If I get a level 2 on my twizzles, I want to get a level 3 at the next competition. It’s not like I want to get first place, it’s well-nigh improving, and then I can reach those goals.
IDC: What is your favorite skating memory?
Shauna: In Arizona, we have this competition tabbed Fiesta Skate. Two years ago it was my first Solo Flit competition. I didn’t know what was going on. Everyone was so supportive. I ended up doing really good. I was worldly-wise to make new friends there. Naomi and everyone were so welcoming plane though I was new to it.
