Robin Wagner is an American figure skating coach. She was a skater in the late 1970s, but quit skating after she failed to make the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.[citation needed] Her coach was Gus Lussi. Gus Lussi is a figure skating coach. ...
After retiring, Wagner became a coach and choreographer. She coached Olympic champion Sarah Hughes and World silver medalist Sasha Cohen. She recently trained Italian figure skater Silvia Fontana for the 2006 Olympics in Torino. In the fall of 2006, Wagner decided to take a break from coaching after many of her junior and novice skaters failed to qualify for the 2007 US National Championships.[citation needed] Sarah Elizabeth Hughes (born May 2, 1985 in Great Neck, New York) was the Olympic gold medalist in womens figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. ... This article is about the figure skater. ... Silvia Fontana Silvia Fontana (born 3 December 1976) is a figure skater who represented Italy at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. ... The U.S. Figure Skating Championships is an annual event put on by the United States Figure Skating Association. ...
She is married to Jerome Grossman. Wagner also has a degree in psychology.[citation needed]
During the 1970s Wagner designed the scenery for "Lenny," "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Sugar," "Seesaw," "Mack and Mabel," "A Chorus Line," "On the Twentieth Century," and "Ballroom"; since 1980, he has designed the musicals "42nd Street" and "Dreamgirls." These have won him all of the major theater design awards.
RobinWagner's structural, sometimes minimal, technologically exciting, visually simulating, and kinetic work will be remembered as the classic scenic design of the 1970s and 1980s.
The second memorable aspect of Wagner's scenery is its scale: the larger structural scenery in "Lenny," the tall light towers in "Dreamgirls," the cavernous spaces in "A Chorus Line" and in "Ballroom." Also, he seems to work well with lighting designers, and his scenery allows for the theatricality of light.
Wagner, who lives in Glen Cove, New York but trains her athletes at the Ice House in New Jersey, is the antithesis of most skating or other sports coaches.
Wagner started with Sarah when she was nine, becoming her head coach at eleven.
Wagner also believes that it is the athlete who has to perform not the coach.
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