This weekend has been rather busy celebrating three birthdays and welcoming Chris and Caroline to Singapore but yesterday Vic and I managed to fit in a visit to Marina Bay Sands theatre to see Swan Lake on Ice. Absolutely magical. The skating and dancing was beautifully choreographed and all performed on a small 15x15m rink. The show is visually stunning and the cast are incredible athletes and dancers. We saw some incredible feats - with the dancers getting up to speeds of 20 miles an hour at some points.
Paul Mansfield, the Production Manager of "Swan Lake on Ice", said: "We brought everything with us here from the UK, and we installed a full ice rink...We start by putting down five tonnes of crushed ice, which has been supplied locally. Then we have a person stay here overnight, all night, and every 15 minutes, they’ll spray the ice rink again so that each time, it slowly builds up a layer of ice, getting thicker and thicker, until it’s about 20cm thick. And then after that, it just needs to be maintained. Normally it takes three days to build a rink but here, the crew only has about 14 hours to do so in the lead up to the show. And when that is done, the 26 skaters are ready to wow the audience."
Paul Mansfield, the Production Manager of "Swan Lake on Ice", said: "We brought everything with us here from the UK, and we installed a full ice rink...We start by putting down five tonnes of crushed ice, which has been supplied locally. Then we have a person stay here overnight, all night, and every 15 minutes, they’ll spray the ice rink again so that each time, it slowly builds up a layer of ice, getting thicker and thicker, until it’s about 20cm thick. And then after that, it just needs to be maintained. Normally it takes three days to build a rink but here, the crew only has about 14 hours to do so in the lead up to the show. And when that is done, the 26 skaters are ready to wow the audience."
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