{"id":29104,"date":"2022-09-13T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/?p=29104"},"modified":"2022-09-19T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:39:49","slug":"carhart-horovyi-injuries-lead-to-new-careers-in-ice-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/carhart-horovyi-injuries-lead-to-new-careers-in-ice-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Carhart & Horovyi: Injuries lead to new careers in ice dance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Anne Calder<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Helena Carhart became an ice dancer by accident. She was a thirteen year old intermediate singles skater when she was injured. Ironically a similar situation happened to her older sister, Adrienne, who had incurred a hip injury and was now an ice dancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoyed the skating aspect of singles, less so the jumps and spins,\u201d Carhart explained. \u201cIce dance was a last hope for skating.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2019 at age 14, Carhart left New York City and joined her sister to train with Marina Zoueva at the International Skating Academy in Florida. After ice dancing for only three months, she partnered with Volodymyr Horovyi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI, too, skated freestyle in the Ukraine before ice dance,\u201d Horovyi said. \u201cMy dad took my brother to figure skating, and I wanted to go too. I did singles for six years, then I fell on my knee and had a bad injury, so I couldn\u2019t jump any more. I took a one year break, then started missing it, so I began ice dance and have been doing it ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a long, good relationship with my partner Anna Cherniavska. [They were 2018 Ukrainian Junior National bronze medalists<\/span>]. In the end, it wasn\u2019t the best, so we broke up,\u201d Horovyi explained. \u201cI was searching for a partner in Israel, Poland and Germany. I wanted to see the USA, and what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horovyi chose Canton, Michigan where he trained with Coach Marina Zoueva before she relocated to Estero, Florida in early 2019. The young Ukrainian eventually followed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One summer day at the International Skating Academy in Hertz Arena, he saw Carhart skating and asked Marina Zoueva for a tryout.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment we skated together, I knew she was going to be my partner,\u201d Horovyi said. \u201cIt was just a feeling. We have now been partners for three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo skated on the novice level finishing second in November at the 2019 first U.S. Ice Dance Final in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The following season COVID invaded the world and the skating community faced closed ice rinks and canceled competitions.<\/p>\n

In 2021, they competed at Chesapeake, Lake Placid and the Novice & Junior Challenge where they took home the gold medal. At the U.S. Championship Series in Alpharetta, Georgia, the team qualified for its first U.S. National Championships.<\/p>\n

\"\"In early January 2022, they competed in Nashville, Tennessee and finished just off the podium in fifth place.<\/p>\n

The team began the current season winning a gold medal at the Chesapeake Open, followed by bronze at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International and then another golden win at the Onyx Challenge.<\/p>\n

Working with Internationally renowned Coach Marina Zoueva has been exciting for the teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice,” Horovyi said. “She has so much experience, you never know what she will say to you. I\u2019m very thankful that I\u2019m skating with her because I know I\u2019m in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carhart added, \u201cI agree. She has so much experience that she\u2019ll just pull things out. She had us wear ankle weights one time to help lift our legs a little higher. Whether it\u2019s skating or life, she has some good words of wisdom and advice. It\u2019s really wonderful working with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s really good at talking to us about problems. She doesn\u2019t get overly emotional. She\u2019s able to connect with us on a deeper level. She\u2019s not only our coach, she\u2019s also a role model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many people assist in choreographing their programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarina helps, but Ilya does a lot of the choreography,\u201d explained Carhart. \u201cSometimes we get outside people to come, too. We have a ballroom dancer, a Broadway star. Yelena Sokolova is our amazing ballet teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have different specialists in figure skating and other areas,\u201d added Horovyi.<\/p>\n

Carhart and Horovyi discussed their rhythm and free dances beginning with her enthusiasm for the Argentine Tango pattern dance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it,\u201d Carhart said. \u201cWe did it in novice our first year together. I\u2019m not naturally a dancy person. It doesn\u2019t come natural to me. It\u2019s very natural to Vova. This was my year to redeem myself from novice, to really bring out the Tango, the face, the expression, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m happy to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/b>I have lots of experience with Tango because in the beginning with my skating I started with the Tango,\u201d Horovyi explained. \u201cI\u2019m skating ice dance maybe 9 or 10 years, and I remember my first program was Tango. I know what to do for the judges. I like this dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music is from Pirates of the Caribbean,\u201d <\/i>Carhart said. \u201c<\/i>When Vova first played it for me, he didn\u2019t tell me\u00a0 <\/span>what it was. We really like it because it\u2019s different. Not everyone knows what it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The songs are \u201cAngelica\u201d and \u201cAngry and Dead Again\u201d by Hans Zimmer, Rodrigo y Gabriela.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Ilya did a lot of the choreography and, of course, Marina. We also had help from former professional ballroom dancer, Maxim Kozhevnikov, who specializes in International Style Latin ballroom dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe free dance is a contemporary piece – kind of modernish – \u201cLong Way Down\u201d and \u201cAnother Love\u201d by Tom Odell,\u201d Carhart said. \u201cRandi Strong [So You Think You Can Dance<\/i> ] helped with the choreography along with Ilya and Marina.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carhart explained their process of making season goals. \u201cWe look at our program in layers, so a lot of our short term goals include adding more emotion or even though we\u2019re tired in the second half of the program, making it sharper than the first. We like to add layers to the program by connecting more with the judges, the audience and each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of goals, and we\u2019re trying to do our best to have them come true,\u201d Horovyi said. \u201cHopefully we will get to go to the JGP Final and Junior Worlds.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are four Carhart female siblings, and all are involved in figure skating: Adrienne, Helena and Marian are ice dancers. Veronica competes in singles. Recently at the Onyx Challenge, Helena and Marian with their partners each won the gold medal in the junior and juvenile ice dance divisions.<\/p>\n

Helena Carhart & Volodymyr Horovyi will compete at the Junior Grand Prix Series Solidarity Cup September 28-October 1 and Baltic Cup October 5-8. Both events will be held in Gdansk, Poland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI am very excited to perform our programs on these international arenas because I haven\u2019t travelled internationally for Team USA,” Carhart said. “We have been working very hard on our programs and are excited to take the next step in our career together and see how it propels us forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we heard [about the assignments], we were excited and really happy,” Horovyi added. “We are looking forward to having the opportunity to go International and also to represent the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

All Junior Grand Prix events are streamed on the ISU Youtube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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by Anne Calder<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Helena Carhart became an ice dancer by accident. She was a thirteen year old intermediate singles skater when she was injured. Ironically a similar situation happened to her older sister, Adrienne, who had incurred a hip injury and was now an ice dancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really enjoyed the skating aspect of singles, less so the jumps and spins,\u201d Carhart explained. \u201cIce dance was a last hope for skating.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2019 at age 14, Carhart left New York City and joined her sister to train with Marina Zoueva at the International Skating Academy in Florida. After ice dancing for only three months, she partnered with Volodymyr Horovyi.<\/p>\n

\u201cI, too, skated freestyle in the Ukraine before ice dance,\u201d Horovyi said. \u201cMy dad took my brother to figure skating, and I wanted to go too. I did singles for six years, then I fell on my knee and had a bad injury, so I couldn\u2019t jump any more. I took a one year break, then started missing it, so I began ice dance and have been doing it ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a long, good relationship with my partner Anna Cherniavska. [They were 2018 Ukrainian Junior National bronze medalists<\/span>]. In the end, it wasn\u2019t the best, so we broke up,\u201d Horovyi explained. \u201cI was searching for a partner in Israel, Poland and Germany. I wanted to see the USA, and what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horovyi chose Canton, Michigan where he trained with Coach Marina Zoueva before she relocated to Estero, Florida in early 2019. The young Ukrainian eventually followed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One summer day at the International Skating Academy in Hertz Arena, he saw Carhart skating and asked Marina Zoueva for a tryout.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment we skated together, I knew she was going to be my partner,\u201d Horovyi said. \u201cIt was just a feeling. We have now been partners for three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The duo skated on the novice level finishing second in November at the 2019 first U.S. Ice Dance Final in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The following season COVID invaded the world and the skating community faced closed ice rinks and canceled competitions.<\/p>\n

In 2021, they competed at Chesapeake, Lake Placid and the Novice & Junior Challenge where they took home the gold medal. At the U.S. Championship Series in Alpharetta, Georgia, the team qualified for its first U.S. National Championships.<\/p>\n

In early January 2022, they competed in Nashville, Tennessee and finished just off the podium in fifth place.<\/p>\n

The team began the current season winning a gold medal at the Chesapeake Open, followed by bronze at the Lake Placid Ice Dance International and then another golden win at the Onyx Challenge.<\/p>\n

Working with Internationally renowned Coach Marina Zoueva has been exciting for the teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice,\" Horovyi said. \"She has so much experience, you never know what she will say to you. I\u2019m very thankful that I\u2019m skating with her because I know I\u2019m in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carhart added, \u201cI agree. She has so much experience that she\u2019ll just pull things out. She had us wear ankle weights one time to help lift our legs a little higher. Whether it\u2019s skating or life, she has some good words of wisdom and advice. It\u2019s really wonderful working with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s really good at talking to us about problems. She doesn\u2019t get overly emotional. She\u2019s able to connect with us on a deeper level. She\u2019s not only our coach, she\u2019s also a role model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many people assist in choreographing their programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarina helps, but Ilya does a lot of the choreography,\u201d explained Carhart. \u201cSometimes we get outside people to come, too. We have a ballroom dancer, a Broadway star. Yelena Sokolova is our amazing ballet teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have different specialists in figure skating and other areas,\u201d added Horovyi.<\/p>\n

Carhart and Horovyi discussed their rhythm and free dances beginning with her enthusiasm for the Argentine Tango pattern dance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love it,\u201d Carhart said. \u201cWe did it in novice our first year together. I\u2019m not naturally a dancy person. It doesn\u2019t come natural to me. It\u2019s very natural to Vova. This was my year to redeem myself from novice, to really bring out the Tango, the face, the expression, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m happy to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/b>I have lots of experience with Tango because in the beginning with my skating I started with the Tango,\u201d Horovyi explained. \u201cI\u2019m skating ice dance maybe 9 or 10 years, and I remember my first program was Tango. I know what to do for the judges. I like this dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe music is from Pirates of the Caribbean,\u201d <\/i>Carhart said. \u201c<\/i>When Vova first played it for me, he didn\u2019t tell me\u00a0 <\/span>what it was. We really like it because it\u2019s different. Not everyone knows what it is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The songs are \u201cAngelica\u201d and \u201cAngry and Dead Again\u201d by Hans Zimmer, Rodrigo y Gabriela.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Ilya did a lot of the choreography and, of course, Marina. We also had help from former professional ballroom dancer, Maxim Kozhevnikov, who specializes in International Style Latin ballroom dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe free dance is a contemporary piece - kind of modernish - \u201cLong Way Down\u201d and \u201cAnother Love\u201d by Tom Odell,\u201d Carhart said. \u201cRandi Strong [So You Think You Can Dance<\/i> ] helped with the choreography along with Ilya and Marina.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carhart explained their process of making season goals. \u201cWe look at our program in layers, so a lot of our short term goals include adding more emotion or even though we\u2019re tired in the second half of the program, making it sharper than the first. We like to add layers to the program by connecting more with the judges, the audience and each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of goals, and we\u2019re trying to do our best to have them come true,\u201d Horovyi said. \u201cHopefully we will get to go to the JGP Final and Junior Worlds.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are four Carhart female siblings, and all are involved in figure skating: Adrienne, Helena and Marian are ice dancers. Veronica competes in singles. Recently at the Onyx Challenge, Helena and Marian with their partners each won the gold medal in the junior and juvenile ice dance divisions.<\/p>\n

Helena Carhart & Volodymyr Horovyi will compete at the Junior Grand Prix Series Solidarity Cup September 28-October 1 and Baltic Cup October 5-8. Both events will be held in Gdansk, Poland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI am very excited to perform our programs on these international arenas because I haven\u2019t travelled internationally for Team USA,\" Carhart said. \"We have been working very hard on our programs and are excited to take the next step in our career together and see how it propels us forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we heard [about the assignments], we were excited and really happy,\" Horovyi added. \"We are looking forward to having the opportunity to go International and also to represent the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

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