{"id":42201,"date":"2026-01-27T12:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/?p=42201"},"modified":"2026-01-28T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:18:35","slug":"u-s-ice-dancers-share-their-thoughts-about-future-rhythm-dance-music-and-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/u-s-ice-dancers-share-their-thoughts-about-future-rhythm-dance-music-and-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Ice Dancers Share Their Thoughts About Future Rhythm Dance Music and Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p3\"><em>by Anne Calder | On-Ice Photos by Daphne Backman, Off-Ice Photos by Gina Capellazzi<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Since its early history, ice dance has emphasized technical, intricate footwork and deep edges. Over the years the names and vehicles used to compete these priorities have changed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\">(1968 -1990) Couples performed Compulsory Dances set to a designated pattern plus the Original Set<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Pattern segment (OSP) where teams created their own dance to a specific, yearly-changing rhythm.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">(1990 &#8211; 2010) The OSP gradually became simplified and for two decades was called the Original Dance.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">(2010) The Compulsory and Original Dances were eliminated and the Short dance was created.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\">(2018 &#8211; 2019) The Short Dance was renamed the Rhythm Dance, which better reflected the segment\u2019s\u00a0specific rhythms and themes selected yearly by the ISU Dance Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\">The past six years Senior Rhythm Dance has included the following Music\/Theme &#8211; Rhythm\/Theme:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p4\">2019-2020 &amp; 2020-2021: Music: Musicals, Operetta, Broadway<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">2021-2022: Music\/Theme: Street Dance Rhythms<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">2022-2023: Music\/Theme: Latin Dance Styles<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">2023-2024: Rhythm\/Theme: Music and Feeling of the Eighties<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">2024-2025: Rhythm\/Theme: Social Dances and Styles of the 1950\u2019s, 1960\u2019s and 1970\u2019s<\/li>\n<li class=\"p4\">2025-2026: Rhythm\/Theme: Music and Feeling of the Nineties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\">At the 2026 U.S. Championships in St. Louis, MO, IDC asked the Senior Ice Dancers the following question:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><i>If you could choose the 2026-2027 Rhythm Dance Music\/Theme or Rhythm\/Theme what would it be?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><strong>Emily Bratti &amp; Ian Somerville\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Emily: I would love to do a waltz\u2026and a pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Ian: I really enjoy the pattern dances. It&#8217;s really fun to do them. I know it can be quite boring for the audience to watch them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Also, the 80s theme was my favorite theme we&#8217;ve ever done, but maybe we should move on to something a little bit different because the last few years have been very showy, which is really fun to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Emily: I think bringing back the pattern would be amazing just because there isn&#8217;t really anyway to compare directly skating skills right now. I think that should be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>Oona Brown &amp; Gage Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Oona: I honestly wouldn&#8217;t be too mad if it was tango.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Gage: I agree with tango. Technically we\u2019re doing hip hop this season, but we love skating to tango. We loved skating to hip hop when they used to do a hip hop \/ blues theme. We really like that. If they would bring that back, we would not be mad at them. Like Oona said, a tango would be something cool. We always have fun with tango. A lot of people like to portray it as a very romantic dance, but we kind of portray it as a fight, similar to our <i>Godfather <\/i>free dance. We like stern, sharp, fierce genres for sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>Christina Carreira &amp; Anthony Ponomarenko<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Christina: I would like a waltz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Anthony: I would say tango. Overall I feel waltz is a fantastic avenue. We haven\u2019t done one since junior, so it\u2019s time for it. If it were to get chosen, we would be looking forward to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong>Amy Cui &amp; Jonathan Rogers (pictured below)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Amy: We really enjoyed the hip hop kind of how creative and fun we get to be with this kind of dance style. So definitely something 2000s. I was born in 2006, so that music would be something that&#8217;s nostalgic to me. But<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>that would be really fun to kind of explore that kind of hip hop \/<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>R&amp;B style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Jonathan: I completely agree. I like that 2000s, early music, that I grew up on. It really set the foundation for a lot of my dancing.\u00a0I&#8217;m also pretty selfish a bit. I love Bruno Mars. I love dancing to Bruno Mars. Any sort of theme that can maybe lock that music in for us would be awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" data-attachment-id=\"42206\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/u-s-ice-dancers-share-their-thoughts-about-future-rhythm-dance-music-and-themes\/8457-2026rd-article-cui-rogers\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?fit=1080%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,639\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?fit=1024%2C606&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?resize=1024%2C606&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?resize=1024%2C606&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?resize=254%2C150&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?resize=768%2C454&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8457-2026RD-Article-Cui-Rogers.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><br>Isabella Flores &amp; Linus Colmer Jepsen<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Linus: If you go with a more simplistic approach, I think we&#8217;ve seen a lot of more modern dance styles, and I think it&#8217;d be a nice change of pace to do something, maybe a bit more classical, like we haven&#8217;t seen in a while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We actually spoke with our coach about what had been said by Coach Patrice Lauzon (I.AM). He had this idea that you have a few different pattern dances to choose from. It could be a tango, waltz, whatever you want to have, maybe four. Then each couple can decide which one they want to have their program be about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I think that&#8217;s a really cool idea especially given that the typical complaint about rhythm dances is that it&#8217;s too much of the same. I think that would be a great idea to get some variation while still getting a good mix of classic traditional things and then something more modern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Isabella: I like that idea as well.&nbsp;The past few years have been the decades.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>That&#8217;s been something very different, but I think a lot of us here grew up with traditional dances as kind of like a base. I would kind of be interested to see it gear back that way. There&#8217;s a lot of different dance styles out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Caroline Green &amp; Michael Parsons<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Michael: Waltzes! Waltzes! Waltzes! I love waltzes! I love dancing to waltzes! I love listening to Waltzes. It has to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Caroline: We were watching <i>Howl\u2019s Moving Castle,<\/i> and the waltz theme that&#8217;s in that is just, mwah. So good! It was like, Oh, it would be so nice to be able to do a waltz for once. So, we\u2019d be excited to bring that back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Michael: Bring back the \u201cone foot sections\u201d in the footwork. I think people would like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Caroline: I miss the pattern dance in general. Maybe patterns instead of PSt? I don&#8217;t know. I feel like having a chance to have that objective comparison between teams is really exciting and something a casual fan can really latch on to. I&#8217;ve tried to explain PSt to my parents and casual watchers, and they&#8217;re like, what? I would really like to see a waltz!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Raffaella Koncius &amp; Alexey Shchepetov (pictured, below)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Raffaella: Honestly, I enjoy more bluesy type style programs, like a little bit more sultry. I feel like the rhythm dances the last couple of years, have been so high paced, or fast paced that it would be nice to see something at least go a slower tempo into a higher tempo and not have it so high tempo the whole time. I would like a more variety of tempo in the Rhythm Dance for next year. So I think bluesy and sultry and also it would be fun to do current music &#8211; like stuff you hear on the radio right now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alexey: Some more modern songs would be cool.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>It would also draw in more fans. I feel like it would be nice to do another blues pattern. I like the idea of patterns &#8211; like back to the old days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Raffaella: I like the Choreo stuff, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alexey: You could still do the Choreo stuff, but instead of like partial steps do one pattern. That way we can kind of combine the old and the new, and it&#8217;d be an interesting variation, I think.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" data-attachment-id=\"42207\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/u-s-ice-dancers-share-their-thoughts-about-future-rhythm-dance-music-and-themes\/7872-2026rd-article-koncius-shchepetov\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?fit=1080%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,639\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?fit=1024%2C606&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?resize=1024%2C606&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?resize=1024%2C606&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?resize=254%2C150&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?resize=768%2C454&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7872-2026RD-Article-Koncius-Shchepetov.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><br \/>Leah Neset &amp; Artem Markelov<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Leah: I honestly would love a waltz. I just love waltz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Artem: Our Free Dance this year has a little bit of waltz in it because it&#8217;s a Napoleon and Josephine theme. We really enjoyed choreographing it and practicing it. It really feels free when you skate it out. I think fans will enjoy it as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Leah: I feel like the waltz really moves well on the ice. I competed waltz once in intermediate, but since then, we haven&#8217;t really done a waltz, so it would be really fun to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Eva Pate &amp; Logan Bye<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Eva: People are gonna get mad at me for saying this, but I really would love a waltz. I would also love a pattern. I love doing pattern dances, and it&#8217;s really sad that we haven&#8217;t been able to do them the last few years. I feel maybe it&#8217;s a little unpopular opinion for a waltz, but I just think it&#8217;s so beautiful, and you can really work on refining your posture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Logan: I think there&#8217;s been a lost art to the pattern dances from the old compulsories, and to have those kind of taken away the past two or three years is sad. It&#8217;s something that you do have to spend a ton of time on. So in terms of the training, it&#8217;s nice to be able to kind of let that one go a little bit. But at the same time, it&#8217;s something that is tradition that we as ice dancers were rooted in. It&#8217;s where we started from. So it would be nice to kind of see those comeback. I\u2019m not sure if other skaters feel that way. I do think a lot of them do like the pattern dances. To keep them back in the rhythm dance would be fantastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Elliana Peal &amp; Ethan Peal<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elliana: I would love an upbeat hip hop feel, but we&#8217;ve done it for so long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ethan: I think it would be really cool to try to approach a rhythm dance that is a little bit slower, maybe a six count tempo, like a waltz, that would maybe encourage people to do more upbeat free dances, because I feel right now everyone feels like they have to do slower free dances to complement the more upbeat rhythm. I\u00a0think it could be a cool change of pace that would maybe promote some different types of free dances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elliana: I do think maybe adding more little, tiny spots to dance more in the rhythm dance, so as not to be so element based. It would be cool to have a mix of things.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Vanessa Pham &amp; Anton Spiridonov<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Anton: The idea of the 2000s and &#8217;90s, &#8217;80s, &#8217;70s, all that, I like that, and I think it should continue. I would really enjoy skating to the 2000s, or even more recent 2010s, 2020s music. That would be really interesting to see really modern stuff. I also enjoyed the season we had Broadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Vanessa: Yes, I enjoyed that, too &#8211; as a junior even.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Katarina Wolfkostin &amp; Dimitry Tsarevski (pictured, below)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dimitry: For me, musicals. I love musicals. Definitely musicals. Bring back some musicals. I&#8217;d love it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Katarina: I like musicals, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">IDC: Musicals get two votes.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"606\" data-attachment-id=\"42204\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/u-s-ice-dancers-share-their-thoughts-about-future-rhythm-dance-music-and-themes\/0930-2026rd-article-wolfkostin-tsarevski\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?fit=1080%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,639\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?fit=1024%2C606&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?resize=1024%2C606&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?resize=1024%2C606&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?resize=254%2C150&amp;ssl=1 254w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?resize=768%2C454&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0930-2026RD-Article-Wolfkostin-Tsarevski.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4\"><strong><br \/>Emilea Zingas &amp; Vadym Kolesnik<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Emilea: I have an idea. I think that they should do a ballroom theme, and maybe it can continue for the next four years. They can have a set of five, six or seven different dance styles, and teams can pick from each of those dance styles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">So, say, we want to choose Latin or a rumba for our dance style. That&#8217;s fine. If someone wants to choose a waltz, that&#8217;s also fine. The only constraint is whichever rhythm you choose, you have to perform a partial part of a pattern that goes with that dance style. There&#8217;s a variety you can choose from. The other rule is you can&#8217;t repeat the same genre or style more than twice in four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">So, say we pick Latin next year, the following year, we might pick a waltz. The following year, we might pick a flamenco or Paso Doble or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Vadym: I think my idea is not as good as that. I want to do Broadway.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I remember doing that as a junior, I thought it was a really fun theme, because it opens up doors to many other themes inside of it, if you know what I mean. It&#8217;s probably going to be hard for the judges to compare apples to bananas, but it&#8217;s figure skating, I&#8217;m sorry. You can do it, everyone. Adjust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Anne Calder | On-Ice Photos by Daphne Backman, Off-Ice Photos by Gina Capellazzi Since its early history, ice dance has emphasized technical, intricate footwork and deep edges. 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