By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole

Ice suffices for Katarina Witt and Brian Boitano. Between them, they've skated for 37 years and have three Olympic gold medals--two for her, one for him. Starting in April, East Germany's Witt, 24, and the U.S.'s Boitano, 26, who met in 1983, will be swirling as a pair when they begin touring the world with a new show. The two friends, exhibiting fine form last week in Manhattan's Central Park, "have good chemistry and an emotional connection," says Boitano, but don't share a passion to compete. Witt has lost her feeling for pressure-filled contests; Boitano hopes to try for the '92 Olympics. Says he: "My heart and soul are in competitive skating."