![]() From her beginnings as a figure skater at the age of three, Beate-Helene is now a coach at Loddefjord Idrettslag and is the coach of synchronised skating team The Bergen Umbrellas. On ice skills don’t end there, Margret and Maciej are joined by figure skater Beate-Helene Andersen, a Bergen native who has placed well at Norwegian championships on several occasions. Maciej is currently a coach at Bergen Kunstløpklubb. Maciej has competed at World Championships as both a junior and senior competitor, at the Nebelhorn Trophy, The Golden Spin of Zagreb, the Finlandia Trophy and more. In some of the artistic performances you will see Maciej performing complex jumps amongs artistic transitions, these are skills gained no-doubt in his previous figure skating career in which he was a multiple polish national champion and representative. Margret is joined on ice by Maciej Kuś, a figure skater of distinction. Margret is currently a dance teacher at Culture School Øygarden. Margret is the founder and Artistic Director of Nordic Ice Theatre, she is a figure skater, dancer, choreographer, dance and skating teacher/coach. ![]() Margret is well schooled in arts having studied a BA in dance and a MA in choreography and dance theory. There is a strong influence to the artistic, to the ballet, to the beauty of dance and movement, that is true of all members of the Nordic Ice-Theatre Company, not the least of which is Małgorzata Osypińska (Margret). The artists behind Nordic Ice Theatre Małgorzata Osypińska (Margret) ![]() In short, Norway will be better for having Nordic Ice Theatre in its midst and will move forward in artistic figure skating as a result. I cannot help but feel that we are in a golden age of artistic ice skating, I think that in 100 years time, people will look back at ice-theatre companies like Nordic Ice Theatre and realise that this was the time when anything was possible, when a bold few, helped create and bring to the people a beautiful art form. Margret hopes that one of the effects of the creation of Nordic Ice Theatre is to inspire others to create art on ice.Īrtistic figure skating though not at all new, as organisations like Ice Theatre of New York lay testament, but is yet to receive anything like the attention it deserves. There is no doubt that Nordic Ice Theatre are pathfinders in Norway, a path that more will tread behind them, join by their side, and move forward with Nordice to bring artistic figure skating in Norway to the forefront, potentially to a world stage. The future of artistic figure skating in Norway There is something beautiful in the way that artistic figure skating and live musicians fit into the Norwegian landscape, like it should have always been there, a oneness that the Nordic ice-theatre company have captured effortlessly in the following video ‘From Bergen With Love’. Nordic Ice Theatre (or Nordice as it is also known) is the first ice-theatre company in Norway, and is only the second ice theatre in all of Scandinavia, Ice Theatre of Stockholm being the other. An artistic figure skating first for Norway There is no mistaking the power of live instruments, but when combined with figure skating, the result is magical, something that becomes so much more than the sum of its parts. So why is it so different? Well the first thing that struck me is the use of live musicians on the ice I mean actual musicians on the ice, as in cellists, violinists, pianists and more, actually on the ice with the figure skaters. ![]() There is something raw, something wild, yet extremely skilled about performances from Nordic Ice Theatre I think over and above all else, the feeling is ‘this is utterly beautiful and different’’. It really is figure skating like you have never seen it before. Nordic Ice Theatre – Artistic figure skating like you have never seen it before. ![]()
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