Ballet is hard. Figure is skating is hard. Why not put the two together?
There was a very small, fuzzy clip, of this going around socials. Luckily, we had a viewer who found this extended and slightly better quality clip and emailed it to us. We do see all your suggestions on socials and emails, so keep sending them along - thank you!
What's fascinating is that Darlene Gilbert actually is still alive today! We were able to watch this old time-y, Disney feeling clip to see some behind the scenes of the patent process. Super cool. Even better, was seeing Darlene in her hey day, performing effortlessly on ice. Incredible!
As a treat, Darlene also brought her famous toe skates to some professional figure skaters more recently. What a difference and evolution! So difficult.
Asking a professional figure skater to go en pointe on dry land would already be a challenge - but on ice? Next level.
Would you try the toe skate???