This glittering girls trio has star power.
Aaliyah Ward, Sophie Dawe and Brielle Varasteh will be helping to illuminate the Fuller Lake Skating Club’s Canadian Road Trip ice show Saturday, March 24 at Fuller Lake Arena. They’re the stars in a Northern Lights segment that’s part of the 2 and 6 p.m. performances among the cast of 90 skaters.
The trio will be rather busy with three different roles in the first half of the show.
“We have to rush,” conceded Varasteh.
While the audience is watching other segments of the show, the three girls will be undergoing quick costume changes, taking off their make-up and transforming themselves for the next part.
They start out as members of the Trans-Canada Highway police. Later, they’ll be street kids from Ontario as well as the Northern Lights.
“We finished the police number,” noted Varasteh. “We’re finishing more (Monday).”
As senior members of the club, “it’s helping the little kids, too,” said Dawe of their follow-up routines.
Ward, 16, is a Grade 10 student at Ladysmith Secondary School and was eight when she started skating.
She said preparations for the show have been hectic.
“We didn’t have a lot of time,” Ward pointed out. “We just got back from Kelowna.”
But the three girls know each other’s every move and work well together.
“The past three ice shows, we’ve always been a trio,” said Ward.
It’s a nice departure for them from the competition schedule.
“I find it way more fun when we do a show,” Ward indicated. “We can have a lot of fun with it. Competitions make me very nervous. You have to place and stuff. This is a good way to end the year.”
Dawe, 14, is a Grade 8 student at Nanaimo District Secondary who lives in Ladysmith and began skating at just three years old.
“It’s more of like a break,” she said of the show. “It’s something fun to do. You don’t have to stress about it. It helps balance everything out.”
“We all work together,” added Varasteh, 14, who’s in Grade 9 at the Cowichan Secondary School Quamichan campus in Duncan. “It’s not so much individual like the competitions are.”
Varasteh was also only three when she started skating.
The little ones and the older skaters will all come together in the Saturday showcase.
Tickets are $10 apiece and going fast. There’s only 400 available for each show.
Contact Luisa Shillingford for more information at 250-245-1415 or by email at cleve@telus.net.
