Compulsory Dance Superfinal Report by Melanie Hoyt Lauren McKernan & Matt Kleffman She has a great smile, and they perform a very solid and confident dance. Their last pattern may have been a bit smaller than the rest of their…
Compulsory Dance Superfinal Report by Melanie Hoyt Isabella Cannuscio & Ian Lorello They had a very nice opening and I noticed that their blades were fairly quiet. Their lines matched well, but I would have liked to have seen a…
Original Dance Report by Abby Millager 1. Maxwell & Traxler pocohontas outfits. Traxler has fringe garters just below the knees. native American flute, drum straightline footwork methodical, decent edges tw well done biellmann on shoulder lift huge circular footwork—slow on…
Article by Karen Frank Timing is everything. And in ice dance, the best time to find a new partner is in late winter or early spring, in order to have enough time to put together programs for the Lake…
Pre-Placid Post Thursday, July 26, 2007 Welcome to ice-dance.com’s Event Blog for the 2007 Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships! Each year LPIDC continues to be one of the events we anticipate most. It presents an opportunity to view programs at…
Article by Karen Frank What do Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have in common with ski racing? Aside from the fact that both are associated with the Winter Olympics, they also happen to be the reasons Christina Chitwood and…
Article by Karen Frank In 2002, coach Jerry Santoferrara saw something in ice dancers Lindsay Cohen and Evan Roberts. Though they weren’t skating with each other at the time, he believed that together, they could be something special. Five…
When did you start skating? Scarlett: I started skating in 1994 when I was 5. Lionel: I started skating at 7 and competing at 8 in ice dance. Why did you start skating? Scarlett: I was on holiday when…
Q & A by Karen Frank When did the two of you start skating? Danielle and Alex: We started group basic 8 skating lessons at Newbridge Arena in Bellmore, New York at the beginning of the summer in 2000.…
Article by Karen Frank “This is only the beginning!” Kassy Kova and Justin Ross are an intermediate level team who train in the San Diego area under the coaching of Suzie Semanick-Schurman and Wendy Smith. Though they’ve been a…