Articles & Interviews

Walden & Edwards Announce Coaching Change

Louise Walden & Owen Edwards, the 2011 British champions, announced a coaching change and relocation this week. The team will now be training in Hackensack, N.J., with Galit Chait, John…

Sara Hurtado & Adriá Díaz Strive to Improve

by Melanie Hoyt / Photos by Robin Ritoss and Liz Chastney When the International Skating Union announced new minimum technical scores for this season’s ISU Championships, many of the small…

ISU to broadcast JGP Series on Youtube

For the second consecutive season, the International Skating Union will be uploading videos from the Junior Grand Prix series to its Youtube channel.  The 2012-13 season starts next week and…

Growth is the Goal for Ralph & Hill

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photos by Liz Chastney For Kharis Ralph & Asher Hill, their first trip to the World Figure Skating Championships was, in a word, “fantastic.” While the…

So You Think You Can Judge at Scarboro FSC

Ice Dance Elite and the Scarboro Figure Skating Club of Scarboro, Ontario will hold their annual Ice Dance and Competitive Free Skate Exhibition on Tuesday, July 31, from 7-9pm at…

Kolbe & Caruso REUNITE!

Everything happened very fast! Monday I flew to Berlin and took part in a meeting with the President of the German Federation, Mr. Udo Donsdorf; the head coach of the…

IDC’s Lake Placid IDC site is online!

Ice-dance.com’s Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships event website is now online.  More information will be posted on our site once it is available. –  IDC’s coverage of LPIDC

Catching Up with Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier

by Jacquelyn Thayer | Photos by Melanie Hoyt Canadian national bronze medalists Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier, who last season competed only within Canada due to Gilles’s pending release from…

The latest from the ISU

In the last week, the ISU has released three communications that include ice dancing: ISU Communication #1742 – Decisions of the ISU Council (6/27/20120) ISU Communication #1739 – Ice Dance…

A Summer of Change for Paul & Islam

by Jacquelyn Thayer After an unusually challenging season troubled by injury, Alexandra Paul & Mitchell Islam knew a “shake-up,” in Islam’s words, was in order. The change came in the…