24 Friday, April 25, 1986
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Sectionals of pair skating compe-
tition, her third year with the Ice
Company allows a chance "to do
something that's fun and not
competitive." She explains,
"While a fall can be devastating
in competition," her success-
ive appearances in Ice Company
proves "you get another chance if
you mess up."
That does not mean, however,
that Brown and Shifman can
work any less for the Ice Com-
pany. After the skaters audition
for the show, they participate in
frequent rehearsals that some-
times last until late at night. Ac-
cording to Shifman, they repeat
the tiniest details to achieve per-
fection. Strict attendance is de-
manded by Basten, who explains
that every member of an act is
needed at every rehearsal. An-
other Ice Company star,, Jill At-
tenson, 12, of Birmingham, sums
up Basten's rules: "Work, don't
talk, do what he says, and do ev-
erything right."
For \serious and competitive
skaters: such as Brown and Shif-
man, who both sometimes skate
up to seven hours a day, the pres-
sure of a show does not present a
problem.
"I focus my life on other things
besides skating so I don't get
burned out," says Shifman, who
is president of the sophomore
class at Berkley High School and
has participated on the track
team, the basketball team, and in
speech competitions. Her in-
volvement in such a variety of ac-
tivities causes her mother to re-
mark, "She's on a merry-go-
round trying to do it all," and
adds that Shifman must main-
tain a 3.0 average to skate.
For Brown, the strategy is "to
work on skating when I'm at the
arena, but when I leave I don't
talk about it or think about it."
He adds that his mother supports
him and that she asks only that
"I take the ice with pride and
leave the ice with pride, no mat-
ter what happens."
Shifman, who says that she
will continue skating as long as
she improves, believes group
skating "makes you learn how to
relax and relate to an audience."
Although Basten does not nor-
mally coach either Shifman or
Brown, he too feels that "they're
learning to skate to the audience
instead of just having music play-
ing while they're skating."
Both Brown and Shifman con-
clude that, above all, the Ice
Company is "fun." "Pam and I see
other kids at our skating club but
don't have time to become their
friends, so the Company is a neat
opportunity," Brown says. And as
for the show itself? "It has to be
seen to be believed," he says.
Shifman tried to sum it up: "It's
theater and athletics and adven-
ture."
Brown interrupts. "Adventure?
Come on, Pam."
But on this April Saturday, re-
hearsal for "Toy Shop" has ended.
Now, suddenly, the ice fills with
dancing indians for another
routine. The music sounds like a
tribal chant, and the ice looks
like a stampede. Pam Shifman is
right; the Ice Company is an ad-
venture.
And it does have to be seen to
be believed.
Papal Visit May Spur
Recognition Of Israel
Rome (JTA) — Only days
after Pope John Paul II paid his
historic visit to Rome's main
synagogue, ranking Vatican
figures hinted last Sunday that
one ramification of the Papal
gesture could be Vatican recog-
nition of the State of Israel.
Bishop Clemente Riva, presi-
dent of the Ecumenical Commit-
tee of the Rome Diocese and a
member of the Commission for
Religious Relations with the
Jews, observed on a television
interview that the Vatican's
failure to recognize Israel "is
perhaps what offends Jews the
most." The Pope's visit to the
synagogue, he said, should be
viewed as one more step toward
recognition "which must, is
bound to come, even though we
cannot say when."
Riva added that for some time
now it has been said "off the.
record" that "the Pope has a
great desire to visit Jerusalem
and is just waiting for an.oppor-
tunity." Italian Jewish leaders
feel this may well be the Pope's
next step and "he knows he has
a standing invitation, Tulia
Zevi, president of the Union of
Italian Jewish Communities,
responded.
Cardinal Johannes Wine-
brands, who-serves as president
of both the Secretariate for Pro-
moting Christian Unity and the
Commission for Religious Rela-
tions with the Jews, noted that
"official relations" between the
Vatican and Israel "already ex-
ist, even if not yet on the highest
level of the exchange of Ambas-
sadors.
He said that, after all, the
Jews "are a people and a people
expresses itself in the form of a
State." It is therefore natural
for Israel to want to have rela-
tions with all other states."
The Vatican -Radio devoted
much of its recent broadcasts to
Israeli press comments on the
Pope's visit. It included, as one
of the few "voice" selections in
its round-up, the portion of the
speech by Giacomo Saban,
president of the Rome Jewish
Community, during the Pope's
visit in which he stressed the
Jewish people's deep ties with
Israel.