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Article & Photos by\u00a0Anne Calder & Gina Capellazzi<\/em><\/p>\n

The music requirements for the 2023-2024 Rhythm Dance included \u201cMusic and Feeling of the Eighties\u201d. Any music was possible provided it was originally released in the decade of the 1980\u2019s. The couple should demonstrate through dance the culture and essence of this decade. The selected music may be remastered.<\/p>\n

This announcement a year ago produced an outpouring of emotion in the world of ice dance. The pros and cons were bantered back and forth by athletes, coaches, choreographers, judges and, of course, the fans.<\/p>\n

The season is now over and a new theme has been introduced for the 2024-2025 season. It is time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.<\/p>\n

At the recent World Championships in Montreal, Canada, we spoke with ice dancers about their feelings of happiness or regret as the skating world bids adieu to the \u201cMusic of the Eighties\u201d.<\/p>\n

Madison Chock & Evan Bates (USA) – Queen medley<\/strong>
Chock: Since I wasn’t born in the 80s I can’t really compare it to anything, but this year I have really enjoyed taking a trip down to the 80s. I guess what I imagine it would be like – just like lots of big hair, lots of colorful outfits, and just hearing everyone’s music at training and competitions has been so fun. And so I’ve really enjoyed the 80s, especially Freddie Mercury \u2013 he\u2019s definitely my jam, Queen.<\/p>\n

Mariia Nosovitskaya & Mikhail Nosovitskiy (ISR) – George Michael selections<\/strong>
Mariia: Our coach chose George Michael.

Mikhail: I love the style of the 80\u2019s. Next season, I am going to miss it, but we will find something new to do. The first few months skating this Rhythm Dance, it was kind of new, but I searched YouTube and all the dances of the 80\u2019s, and It became more natural. The first months, it was hard.<\/p>\n

Victoria Manni & Carlo Roethlisberger (ITA) – MTV Mash Up<\/strong>
Roethlisberger: For a year we heard the music of the 80\u2019s, and now understand that the 80\u2019s were iconic.

Manni: Skating wise, we had a lot of cultures up to the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s. All this time we knew the songs, but maybe we did not know to reference them with the 80\u2019s, so it\u2019s nice now for us to hear a song, and say that\u2019s from the 80\u2019s. It\u2019s been a learning opportunity. Now we\u2019ll see what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

Olivia Smart & Tim Dieck (ESP) \u201cCall Me\u201d and \u201cRapture\u201d by Blondie<\/strong>
Smart: For a new team coming up with a concept together when you don\u2019t know each other\u2019s personalities and style fully yet, it is a good challenge. This season we based the programs off what suits our personalities already. Blondie is very much up my alley. I\u2019ve been playing that character and that role and with the hair. It worked for me.<\/p>\n

Davis & Smolkin (GEO) – Michael Jackson medley<\/strong>
Smolkin: We are a little bit sad actually. We really like this particular program we prepared for the World competition. It shows our strengths and abilities, so it was a joy to prepare for this competition. At the beginning of the season, not everything was smooth. We didn\u2019t like everything about this Rhythm Dance, so we were always looking for something better. We finally found something.<\/p>\n

Allison Reed & Saulius Ambrulevicius (LTU) – Guns \u2019n Roses medley<\/strong>
Ambrulevicius: It is a nice way to say farewell to this program. It was a very good time for us throughout the whole year with it, and it was very fun to skate in this arena and do it again in front of Canadian crowd. We’re going to miss it.<\/p>\n

Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri (ITA) – \u201cHolding Our For a Hero\u201d, \u201cAgainst All Odds\u201d<\/strong>
Fabbri: We unexpectedly loved the 80s so much. I was born in the 80s, but can\u2019t remember much of the 80s. We\u2019re going to miss this program. It\u2019s been a fun season and even practicing it has been fun.<\/p>\n

Mariia Ignateva & Danijil Leonyidovics Szemko (HUN) – \u201cBoys\u201d, \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart\u201d, \u201cPush It\u201d<\/strong>
Ignateva: We heard the music, \u201cBoys\u201d (Summertime Love) by Italian singer Sabrina one time. We said yes that we would take it. It is much easier to practice with this 80\u2019s music than other seasons.

Szemko: Music of the 80\u2019s, we love it. It\u2019s amazing. While there is no more music of the 80\u2019s, we are sure
that ISU will find something as unique and will surprise everyone with a new style.<\/p>\n

Paulina Ramanauskaite & Deividas Kizala (LTU) – \u201cI Love Rock N Roll\u201d, \u201cPour Some Sugar on Me\u201d, \u201cCall Me\u201d<\/strong>
Kizala: It\u2019s definitely lots of fun with all the energetic music.
Ramanauskaite: It was very fun seeing everybody having different styles of the Rhythm Dance. At the beginning of the season, it was very interesting to think about the type of music, choice of music. We really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

Anna Simova & Kirill Aksenov (SVK) – Ghostbusters medley<\/strong>
Simova: At the beginning of the season when I heard we were going to have the 80\u2019s, I was not happy. I was like, this is not my style. This is not something that I can express. When we chose the music and started to build the program, I started to enjoy it and love it. I will miss it a lot. All the ice dancers chose the best music, so I enjoyed all the Dances.

Aksenov: I will miss it. It was a great time.<\/p>\n

Solene Mazingue & Marko Jevgeni Gaidajenko (EST) – \u201cWalk This Way\u201d, \u201cPush It\u201d<\/strong>
Gaidajenko: It was, of course, not our generation, but 80\u2019s was definitely interesting because our parents listened to it, and our coaches listened to it, so they knew exactly what we needed. They gave us the right program to match our energy. We enjoyed to perform it through the whole season. We are going to miss the energy.

Mazingue: I actually loved the program. I am going to miss it and the mood of the 80\u2019s. It\u2019s really a treat
and so different from last year.<\/p>\n

Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson (GBR) – \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d by Eurythmics<\/strong>
Gibson: We both enjoyed our music selection for sure. It\u2019s been exciting. It\u2019s also fun getting to just sing along to music as we were waiting to skate. That\u2019s all I was doing. I was like hearing the track, and I\u2019d have the melody stuck in my head. I just knew all the words. It\u2019s cool. I\u2019m like, its so fun. We didn\u2019t grow up in that era, but our parents love that music.

Fear: We just love anything that\u2019s fun and entertaining. The selections for the 80\u2019s were filled with so many options. It\u2019s cool to see everyone\u2019s different personalities expressed through what they chose this season.\u00a0

Gibson: I\u2019m excited for next year, though.<\/p>\n

Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier (CAN) – \u201cNo More I Love You\u2019s\u201d, \u201cAddicted to Love\u201d<\/strong>
It was funny when we started to look for music we didn’t really know what route to go in, but I\u2019m really happy with the direction that we chose. It was kind of unexpected for us, but it’s really gained momentum, and I’ve really grown fond of this program. Performing like we did today, it felt nice to kind of say goodbye. We won\u2019t see you again, but it was fun.<\/p>\n

Milla Ruud Reitan & Nikolaj Majorov (SWE) – Yello medley<\/strong>
Reitan: I think I will miss everything about skating to the 80\u2019s music. It\u2019s our first season together and first Rhythm Dance together, so it\u2019s really special for us. I think just like listening to the music in practice, we\u2019ll miss that as well. (On where she found a hair crimper for her 80s look): I got it from my grandma.<\/p>\n

Gina Zehnder & Beda Leon Sieber (SUI) – Yello medley<\/strong>
Sieber: What I enjoy from watching the other skaters and the other programs, is really how fun all the programs are, like most of them are in a really good mood and super entertaining. We went in a little bit of a different direction with our music. We\u2019re skating to the music from the group, Yello, which is an 80\u2019s band from our hometown from Zurich. So that\u2019s a cool factor. We are trying to differentiate ourselves from the
others by doing a little bit of a different take on an 80\u2019s program, while still incorporating this whole atmosphere that the 80\u2019s gave to the music.
(Their race-car program and costumes added a uniquely different theme to the 80\u2019s music choices.)<\/p>\n

Adrienne Carhart & Oleksandr Kolosovskyi (AZE) – Billy Ocean medley<\/strong>
Carhart: In the beginning of the season, I didn\u2019t know how I felt about skating to the 80\u2019s. There were so many different ways to develop it, but this program has really grown on us. We love it so much. We enjoy skating it. It\u2019s great music that makes you excited to want to dance. After the theme was announced last year at Worlds, my dad who was born in the 60\u2019s told us he had us covered. He then sent me about 120 80\u2019s songs. We listened to them. I found \u201cCaribbean Queen\u201d and Sasha found the other two. It was quite a bit of research, but worth it in the end.<\/p>\n

Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko (USA) – Selections by Stevie Nicks<\/strong>
Carreira: I\u2019m glad how we skated our last Rhythm Dance. It\u2019s a good way to say goodbye to the 80\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Phebe Bekker & James Hernandez (GBR) – Selections by Prince<\/strong>
Hernandez: A typical skating program does not conform to the 80\u2019s. As we got more comfortable with some of the movements we kept changing it to make it more 80\u2019s. We had some judges come to work with us. They were like, More, More, More.<\/p>\n

Olivia Oliver & Filip Bojanowski (POL) – \u201cRelax\u201d, \u201cCareless Whisper\u201d, \u201cFinal Countdown\u201d<\/strong>
(The team changed the entire Rhythm Dance for Worlds, including their first and last music selections)
Bojanowski: When we found out about the theme for this season, I was upset because I didn\u2019t think I could feel it. Three times we sent music to our coach, but he said it wasn\u2019t 80\u2019s, so we could not use that music. When we started skating to the music the coaches chose, it was very enjoyable. We changed so much, that today it was basically a new Rhythm Dance. I really enjoyed doing it.

Olivia: It really brought the 80\u2019s-girl character out of me. I\u2019ll miss that part of the 80\u2019s old school.<\/p>\n

Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) I.AM Coach, Choreographer – (World, European, GPFinal Gold medalist)<\/strong>
What will you miss the most about the 80\u2019s music?<\/strong>
Cizeron: Nothing! I have nothing against the 80\u2019s. It is fun to some people and less fun to others. That\u2019s always the challenge that we don\u2019t always have things we would have chosen, but we make it work. We try to be creative enough to still produce and present something that we find interesting. But then why? Are we trying to compare the couples creativity, are we trying to touch an audience who can relate to the 80\u2019s style of music? I\u2019m not sure what is the point.

Did you find it challenging to choreograph for the 80\u2019s theme? What is a favorite or least favorite element?<\/strong>
Cizeron: Extremely challenging, which is fine. We love a challenge. My personal least favorite element is the Choreographic PD. I understand where it\u2019s coming from but it\u2019s obviously not important. I\u2019m not saying that to point fingers at anyone. Everyone is trying to do their best, but as a skater and choreographer it doesn\u2019t result in something really exciting for people to watch – then it would be okay. Ice dance is so intricate, so complicated even for us that it\u2019s almost impossible to explain it to someone who doesn\u2019t practice ice dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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