Articles & Interviews
Gilles & Poirier Use Grand Prix Final Appearance as Motivation for Second Half of Season
By Maura Sullivan Hill | Photo by Robin Ritoss Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier returned to the Grand Prix Final this year for the first time since the 2014-15 season,…
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Getting to Know Helena Carhart & Volodymyr Horovyi
In their first season as a team, Helena Carhart & Volodymyr Horovyi won the silver medal at the 2020 U.S. Dance Final in November. The team trains in Florida with…
A look back at the first U.S. Dance Final
by Anne Calder “In the summer of 2017, [USFSA] President Sam Auxier established a Competitions Task Force with the goal of addressing a number of issues facing the current qualifying…
Skating Moms Series: Ashley Foy Tervoort
by Abril Ventura | Photos courtesy Ashley Foy Tervoort Ashley Foy Tervoort is a former competitive ice dancer who represented Germany with her partner Benjamin Blum from 2005 to 2008.…
Manta & Johnson’s New Chapter
by Gina Capellazzi Last fall, Karina Manta & Joe Johnson were preparing to make their senior ISU Grand Prix debut at Skate America in Everett, Washington. A few months after…
Katherine Hill & Ben Agosto Talk Cirque du Soleil and AXEL
by Anne Calder Cirque du Soleil had a humble beginning in the early 1980s when a group of jugglers, dancers, and musicians began entertaining on the streets of their small…
Getting to Know: Layla Karnes & Kenan Slevira
Layla Karnes & Kenan Slevira tried out on August 29th and by September 1st were forging ahead in a new skating partnership. Learn more about this new team in the…
Getting to Know: Arina Klinovitskaya & Jussiville Partanen
IDC is highlighting some of the new partnerships that are debuting during the 2019-20 competitive season. Finland’s Arina Klinovitskaya & Jussiville Partanen are the next team we are featuring in…
Gilles and Poirier Kick Off Grand Prix Season at Skate Canada
By Maura Sullivan Hill | Photos by Robin Ritoss The Canadian duo took a new approach in the offseason and are eyeing a podium finish in Kelowna, as well as…
Skating Moms Series: Galit Chait-Moracci
by Anne Calder Galit Chait-Moracci was a competitive ice dancer; she is currently a coach, technical specialist, wife and mom. She was born in Israel, but moved to New Jersey,…
Skating Moms Series: Sylwia Nowak-Trębacka
by Anne Calder | Photos Courtesy Sylwia Nowak-Trębacka Sylwia Nowak-Trebecka is an ice dancing coach and a technical specialist from Poland. The former competitor and her partner, Sebastian Kolasinski were…
Douglas Webster: Artist. Choreographer. Director.
by Anne Calder | Photos by Daphne Backman Douglas Webster created Ice Dance International in 2014 and is the Executive Artistic Director. IDI showcases and promotes ice dancing as an…
Green & Parsons: A New Journey Begins
by Anne Calder | Photos by Daphne Backman Caroline Green & Michael Parsons are a new USA ice dance team who skated previously with their siblings, Gordon Green and Rachel…
Skating Moms Series: Melissa Gregory
by Anne Calder | Photos courtesy Melissa Gregory The third “Skating Mom” in our series is Melissa Gregory, 1998 U.S. Junior Champion (James Shuford), six-time U.S. National Senior medalist, 2005…