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by Francesca Team IDC's Francesca attended Patinage Atypique on April 2, in Montreal Canada.  Marjorie Lajoie, who organized Patinage Atypique, graciously answered a few questions about the benefit show. How did the idea of Patinage Atypique develop? ML: I wanted to...

At the World Championships in Saitama, Japan, the ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee conducted a Coaches’ Meeting and discussed the 2019-2020 Senior and Junior Rhythm and Free Dances.    Anne Calder of Ice-Dance.com has compiled the following highlights of the Music...

by Francesca | Photos by Melanie Heaney Francesca met with Laurence Fournier Beaudry & Nikolaj Sorensen at Gadbois on February 25, after their training and before Nikolaj head to the other side of town to teach skating.   How difficult was the choice of changing...

by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje won the Autumn Classic International, their only competition in the 2018 fall season. They then skipped the Grand Prix Series to perform in a Canadian skating tour. “It took some time for us to...

by Anne Calder This morning I opened my new calendar to January where the scenic winter photo was a quick reminder of my imminent trip to Detroit and the 2019 US National Figure Skating Championships. I can’t believe 25 years have passed since the last time Nationals...

by Anne Calder | Photo by Daphne Backman In the Fall, Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier won two Grand Prix bronze medals and earned prize money as the highest-ranking Challenge Series ice dance team. However, they have mixed emotions about the first half of the season....

By Maura Sullivan Hill | Photo by Robin Ritoss When American ice dancer Jean-Luc Baker suffered a concussion during preseason training in August, his season with partner Kaitlin Hawayek could easily have gone off the rails. They lost training time and weren’t able to...

by Anne Calder | Photos by Daphne Backman & Robin Ritoss “Compared to singles, what I love about ice dance is having someone there for you all the time.” ~ Haley Sales Haley Sales & Nikolas Wamsteeker are one of the eight senior ice dance teams competing in...

by Anne Calder | Photos by Robin Ritoss Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis each skated singles at the international level for almost a decade and in 2016, they became ice dance partners. The couple recently won gold at the 2019 Finnish National Championships....

Daphne was a guest on the new Skate Talk Online webcast program where she talked about ice-dance.com's beginnings and how the sport has changed in the last two decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Vw5jLmxLY&t=589s