Date: Sunday, October 25-27, 2024
Location: Portage La Prairie, MB
We are so EXCITED to welcome Jeffrey Buttle and Nicole Burt to Manitoba for a fun filled 3 day seminar for podium pathway, star, and adult skaters! Enjoy 2 on ice sessions and Q & A with Jeffrey Buttle and Nicole Burt, and awesome off ice sessions too! One t-shirt is included with your registration (link to order will be sent out after registration).
REGISTRATION OPEN TO SKATERS IN ALL PROVINCES
Friday, Oct 25, 2024 | Star 6- Gold, Pre-Juv. – Senior
Saturday, Oct 26, 2024 | Star 1-5
Sunday, Oct 27, 2024 | Adult 18+
Registration deadline: September 1, 2024 or until sold out.
THANK YOU TO MBLL for their partnership with this event.
THERE WILL BE NO REFUNDS AFTER THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE, OR ONCE EVENT IS SOLD OUT, WHICHEVER OCCURS FIRST
If you have any questions please contact skate.admin@sportmanitoba.ca
CLINICIANS:
JEFFREY BUTTLE
He is the 2008 World Champion, 2006 Olympic Bronze medalist, and 3-time Canadian Champion.
A performer for 16 years in the Stars on Ice tour, and a creative team member for ten seasons as Choreographer. Acted as Director/choreographer of the tour for 4 years for the U.S., Canadian and Japanese tours.
Among the elite skaters who have performed Buttle’s choreography are Olympic Silver Medalist and Canadian and World Men’s Champion Patrick Chan, Olympic Gold medalist, Japanese Men’s Champion Yuzuru Hanyu, and Japanese and World Champion Kaori Sakamoto. Buttle has also choreographed pieces for Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir, Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford, and Meryl Davis/Charlie White. Other production choreography includes Holiday Festival on Ice (Canada/USA), The Ice (Japan), and Fantasy on Ice (Japan), and has worked as part of the coaching/choreography team on the Canadian TV competition show Battle of the Blades.
Buttle was inducted into Skate Canada’s Hall of Fame in 2012.
NICOLE BURT
Nicole is a well known skater & coach in Canada. Born and raised in Newfoundland, Nicole grew up competing as a Novice competitive singles skater and Intermediate level synchro skater. At 19, she started making synchro her priority and joined Nexxice Senior where they earned a world silver medal. From there, she has been coaching & skating synchro in many different places, from Newfoundland to Calgary to Toronto. Her focus has been primarily in synchronized skating, having coached teams as high as the National level, but not limited to just that as she has worked with skaters at every level in the discipline. She has been the synchro coordinator at Skate Ontario, camp coordinator with OneTeamMVMT, and is now the Technical Director at her home club back in Newfoundland. Nicole’s biggest focus as a coach is with GOE & Program Components and working with her teams & skaters to best understand how the quality of their skating holds equal or greater value over the technical elements alone. Nicole takes great pride in growing her athletes to not only be high quality skaters, but good well-rounded people as well. The joy of skating is there for everyone to participate in and should be shared and enjoyed for life!
VERONICA GOULD
Dance artist, choreographer, and professional dance teacher. Graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance from the National Fine Arts Institute in Mexico (INBA). More than twenty years of experience in teaching different dance techniques such as ballet, jazz, lyrical and contemporary. She is also a certified PBT instructor. Her development as a professional dancer has been showcased working with different Mexican contemporary companies through national and international tours. Her choreographer career includes credits for musicals such as In the Heights, SIX, 35mm: a musical exhibition, among others; as well as different original dance musicals and plays. She currently works as a dance and stretching instructor focused on training with figure skaters to help them develop their artistry.
