Figure skater Elvis Stojko in Halifax to kick off 2024 Stars on Ice tour
Elvis Stojko is one of many talented figure skaters in Halifax this week who are preparing to kick off the 2024 Stars on Ice spring tour.
This year, the opening show is one day earlier than normal – Thursday night – at the Scotiabank Centre.
Stojko says this year’s Stars On Ice will be different than past performances, including a “science of skating” theme.
“It’s not typically breaking down the exact pulling power of a jump, it’s like audience participation and a few other little things in there. I think we have a crash test dummy which is kind of fun, so there’s a few different things,” he told CTV Atlantic’s Katie Kelly during an interview Wednesday night.
Other skaters to hit the ice will include World Champions Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps, Canadian Champion Keegan Messing, World Silver Medalists Loena Hendrickx and Satoko Miyahara as well as Olympic Gold Medalist Patrick Chan, who is retiring from the tour this year.
Audiences can expect to see a routine from Stojko featuring a medley of songs by rock band AC/DC.
“It’s a lot of fun. It’s not just typically go out and skate, so there might be a little bit of a microphone involved, a mic stand,” he says. “People have to come and check it out.”
The Olympic Silver Medalist also says the costumes for the shows are impressive.
“Mathieu Caron does the outfits for us this year and with the Science of Skating he came up with some incredible outfits with all the skaters, and he does my personal outfits as well, and he did the outfit for the AC/DC number and it’s really cool, so I’m very excited,” Stojko says.
Fellow skater Kurt Browning retired from Stars on Ice during last year’s cross-country tour.
While people won’t see Browning lace up hit skates anymore, he is still involved in the show as its new director.
Stojko says it’s been exciting to have Browning in the new role.
“It’s very, very different than what Jeff (Buttle) has done in the past, (it) has been awesome, and this is a completely different, sort of out of the box thinking. He’s all over the place sometimes with his ideas, but it makes for exciting show and it’s going to be very different,” says Stojko.
“It’s all coming together and sometimes it’s crazy to see it on paper and you’re wondering how it’s going to come together,” he added. “The last couple of days, it’s been really exciting, but having him running it, it’s been fantastic.”
Tickets are still available for Thursday night’s show in Halifax and Friday night’s show at the Avenir Centre in Moncton, N.B.
For more Nova Scotia news visit our dedicated provincial page.
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
Trump confronts repeated boos during raucous Libertarian convention speech
Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing Saturday night’s Libertarian Party National Convention.
This type of screen time has the worst effect on kids: experts
According to some experts, there is one type of screen time that is continuously excessive, and it's having a severe effect on our children.
Family of toddler found dead at small-town Ont. daycare no closer to answers after year of investigation
A year has passed since two-year-old Vienna Irwin was found on the property of a home-based daycare in small-town Ontario, but her family says they are no closer to answers of what happened that day.
Grayson Murray, two-time PGA Tour winner, dead at 30
Two-time PGA Tour winner Grayson Murray died Saturday morning at age 30, one day after he withdrew from the Charles Schwab Cup Challenge at Colonial.
Humboldt Broncos crash victims and families react to decision to deport truck driver
The family of one of the victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018 says they are 'thankful' for a decision by a Calgary immigration board to deport the driver of the truck involved.
Fatal plane crash reported near Squamish, B.C.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has confirmed it is working with local Mounties and the BC Coroners Service after a plane crash near Squamish, B.C. Friday night.
'God forgives but we don’t': Loud outburst from stabbing victim’s family during sentencing hearing
An emotional outburst in a London, Ont. courtroom Friday disrupted the sentencing hearing of a woman who pleaded guilty for her part in the death of 29-year-old Mohammed Abdallah.
Three dead after vehicle plunged down a 100-foot embankment in Shediac, N.B.
Three people have died after a vehicle veered off the road in Shediac N.B., Friday morning.
Appeal denied for Edmonton soldier accused of trying to kill her 3 children
An Edmonton woman found guilty of trying to kill her three children has been denied an appeal.