Articles & Interviews

by Anne Calder | Photo by Daphne Backman Recently at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International, IDC spoke with Shira Ichilov & Mikhail Nosovitskiy, a new ice dance duo representing…

by Anne Calder | Photos by Melanie Heaney The U.S. Figure Skating (USFS) National Solo Dance Final will be held from September 11-14 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The seed…

by Anne Calder | Photos by Daphne Backman Annelise Stapert (16) & Maxim Korotcov (17) partnered in 2018 and train in Leesburg, VA with Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak, and Pierre…

by Anne Calder | Photos by Daphne Backman The first Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships was held in 1933 and is the world’s longest-running ice dance competition. The event is…

Coaching photo by Melanie Heaney The U.S. Figure Skating Solo Dance Subcommittee is proud to announce the creation of the Sasha Kirsanov Trophy, to be awarded annually to the winner…

Welcome to IDC’s New Team Series! For this series, we interview athletes who entered the 2025-26 season in a new partnership, or debuted last season. In this interview, we meet…

By Matteo Morelli As a new season starts, the ISU is busy gathering information to add to the skaters’ bios, capturing any relevant updates or changes to their skating career.…

By Matteo Morelli Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck completed their second season after joining forces as a new partnership representing Spain. With both of them being experienced ice dancers, they…

by Daphne Backman On February 1, 2025, I received the heartbreaking news that Michelle Wojdyla had passed away. I’ve started this article so many times and had to stop, restart, scrap…

by Anne Calder Samantha Ritter & Daniel Brykalov represent Azerbaijan in senior ice dance. IDC recently spoke with the duo in Boston, USA where they made their debut at the…

Article and Photos by Matteo Morelli British ice dance legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have embarked on their last ever tour together. Torvill & Dean: Our Last Dance is…

By Matteo Morelli | Skating Photo by Yoriko Suzuki Carolane Soucisse and Shane Firus have been representing Ireland for two years, having switched after seven seasons competing under the Canadian…

by Daphne Backman | Banner photo of Yang & Kay by Robin Ritoss Ice dance (and figure skating) is special. Throughout the past 25 years, my team and I have…

Photos by Yoriko Suzuki Welcome to IDC’s New Team Series! For this series, we interview athletes who entered the 2024-25 season in a new partnership, or debuted last season. In…