Olympic Skating Medalist Nancy Kerrigan Visits Ballroom With A Twist At The North Shore Theatre- HQ Photos
It must have been so cool to have Olympic Skating Medalist Nancy Kerrigan attend Ballroom With A Twist and visit with the cast. You can view some high quality shots below courtesy of Producer Scott Stander (click on them to see them in their full size). Thanks Scott! Beautiful!! I wish Nancy would do Dancing With The Stars. Have you seen Ballroom With A Twist yet? If not, be sure you do. The show is going to Texas and New York state next. For tickets, see this link.
Go see BWAT! It’s a blast!!! π
OH NO! I hope DWTS NEVER asks Nancy to do the show β¦she looks like a more boring, cold and graceless version of Aly and Nastia!!
I would love to see her on the show. Her and dymetry would be a good looking pairing but out of the pros from last season, I would pair her with tony or maybe artem.
Mama Spence actually sat next to her on a flight to Myrtle Beach about 12 years ago – said she was the warmest, most down-to-earth woman, especially considering that she hasn’t always been dealt the easiest hand by life. I’d love to see her on the show – I think she’d be a really hard worker that isn’t prone to whining. Plus I always found her skating to be more organic and emotionally-connected that Kristi Yamaguchi’s ever was.
DWTSFan, I don’t think she’s boring or cold.
Court, I loved her skating more than Kristi’s too. So beautiful!
“Graceless?” Very hard to be graceless and be a successful figure skater, I would think.
I thought she was one of the most graceful skaters ever!
I want to see her on the show, paired with……well you already know who…!!!…
I always liked Nancy but I do have a correction – Nancy is not an Olympic Gold Medalist. She came in 3rd in Albertville, France behind Kristi Yama and Midori Ito and she got stuck with -oops – won the silver in Lillehammer, Norway to the pixie from the Ukraine – Oksana Baiul. I’m still shaking my head over that result. That result still irks me today π Anyway, thanks for the article and yes I would love to see her on DWTS.
Sometimes I type too fast – Nancy won silver and Oksana Baiul won gold in Lillehammer. Sorry!
Oh that’s right. Thanks for the correction.
@Carrie M – Sometime around the Sochi games last year, I remember catching a special on the Nancy vs. Tanya history, and Nancy telling the story of how shocked everyone was that Oksana won the gold that year…including the Olympic officials, who had to scramble to find a copy of the Ukrainian national anthem to play during the medal ceremony. I think that’s still probably one of the biggest head-scratchers in Olympic history that I’ve ever seen…
#12 Courtney – I know I need to get over it but YES the Oksana win is something that I’m still scratching my head over. Totally and utterly ridiculous! And everyone was worried about Nancy vs. Tonya!! No one had Oksana on their radar!! Yes – I remember that they couldn’t find the Ukrainian national anthem and the medal ceremony was delayed because of it OK – I need to calm down! It’s only been 21 years! LOL!
@Carrie M – Part of me still wonders if Oksana’s win was an attempt by the “powers that be” in the skating world to draw attention away from the whole Nancy vs. Tanya drama, which had been a pretty significant black mark on the skating world around that time. Funny thing is, after Oksana won, her reputation seemed to take a rather ignominious turn – the alcoholism, the rehab, the injuries, the lawsuits…I think her gold medal was the high point of her career, and it all went a bit awry after that.
And yeah, if I recall, Nancy was none too happy about the delay of the medal ceremony – I think they unfortunately had footage of her looking visibly flustered with having to wait. Can’t say I blame her – the gold should have been hers.
Loved watching Nancy Kerrigan skate. Beautiful, classy and graceful. But I think my favorite skater is Michelle Kwan. I wish she would do DWTS. I haven’t seen her skate in years. Michelle on ice is like Derek on the dance floor; every nuance in the music has a movement to it. Would love to see them paired up! Wow – that would be pure magic!
I was thinking about Michelle Kwan while reading this post. Both she and Nancy Kerrigan shared an unfortunate Olympic experience — for each, someone seemingly popped out of nowhere and claimed the gold. (For Michelle it was Tara Lipinski.) Personally, I found Nancy’s skating a bit mechanical; it never seemed to me that she was actually feeling anything. I also think that Michelle handled being upended much more graciously than Nancy.
A note about Oksana — while she did indeed fall hard, she had a very tragic early life. I was amazed that she was even able to accomplish what she did.
I loved watching Michelle grow up on the ice, and I totally agree that pairing her with Derek would be awesome!
I would LOVE to see Michelle Kwan on DWTS and also Sasha Cohen. Nancy will make me happy too on DWTS. Such gorgeous, gorgeous skaters. Today’s skaters and skating in general does nothing for me anymore. Ugh…It doesn’t surprise me that attendance for skating shows and competitions are way, way down….
Let’s keep our fingers crossed that one of these ladies will be on DWTS one day!! Nice to read all your comments!!