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Special guests promise to make 2005 Skate Canada ACGM an unforgettable weekend
| Source: |
Skate Canada Press Release |
| Date: |
May 2005 |
It will be a star-studded weekend in Winnipeg for the 2005 Skate
Canada annual convention and general meeting.
Four-time World and Canadian Champion and three-time Olympian Kurt
Browning will be on site in Winnipeg as a guest speaker to delight
delegates and observers at a special lunch on Friday, June 10, which
will be held at the Winnipeg Convention Centre.
Kurt Browning
Browning's successes and unparalleled style earned him legions of fans
throughout the world and many honours, including the prestigious Order
of Canada in 1990. In addition, Browning was inducted into the
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, and won the Lou Marsh Award (as
Canada's outstanding athlete) in 1990 and the Lionel Conacher Award
(Canadian Press Male Athlete of the Year) in both 1990 and 1991. In
2000, Browning was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame, and he
was a Canada's Walk of Fame inductee in 2001.
Browning became the first skater ever to successfully complete a
quadruple jump in competition, a feat he accomplished at the 1988
International Skating Union World Championships in Budapest,
Hungary.
Browning retired from amateur skating in 1994 and has gone on to a
very successful career in professional skating.
Joining Browning at the 2005 Skate Canada ACGM will be National Ballet
of Canada Principal Dancer Sonia Rodriguez. Rodriguez, who joined the
National Ballet of Canada in 1990, will perform at the 2005 Skate
Canada Achievement Awards Gala, along with Aleksandar Antonijevic,
also a Principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.
After joining the National Ballet of Canada in 1990, Rodriguez was
promoted to Second Soloist in 1995 and to First Soloist in 1997. In
2000, she was promoted to Principal Dancer. She has a truly impressive
list of performances and accomplishments to her credit. She has danced
lead and title roles in Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker,
The Sleeping Beauty and Madame Butterfly, to name a few, and she has
received numerous accolades for her superb and brilliant
performances.
Antonijevic's resume is equally impressive. Antonijevic was born in
Yugoslavia and attended the National Ballet School in Novi Sad. In
1991, he joined the National Ballet of Canada as a Second
Soloist. Antonijevic was promoted to First Soloist in 1993 and to
Principal Dancer in 1995.
Among the roles Antonijevic has danced include Basilio in Don Quixote,
Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Prince Florimund in The Sleeping Beauty,
Peter/Nutcracker in The Nutcracker and Eugene Onegin and Lensky in
Onegin, to name a few.
The awards gala will be held on Friday, June 10. The event will take
place at Winnipeg's Pantages Playhouse.
Skate Canada looks forward to welcoming Browning, Rodriguez and
Antonijevic to Winnipeg.
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