With the ending of the 2017-2018 season, a new cycle towards the 2022 Olympic Games begins. As such, this post will have all off-season regarding music for the 2018-2019 season, along with news of coaching changes, retirements and new teams. First and foremost, the short dance is now called the Rhythm Dance. I really don’t like the change of name, but we’ll have to go along with it. I still remember when there was the compuslsory and the original dance, and I kind of wish they would have kept the name compulsory dance (since the pattern dance is not chosen by the athletes) in the first place. But now I was grown used to say “short dance” and it was a good choice to be cohesive with single and pair skating, so I don’t understand the name change. But on more important news, the chosen pattern dance is the Argentine Tango for Juniors and Tango Romantica for the seniors. Excited? I love tango, so I guess I am, even though I have a feeling that a lot of the programs with be quite similar. I truly hope I am wrong. Also, for the 2019-2020 season the pattern dance for juniors will be the Tea Time Foxtrot. The seniors will be able to choose between Quickstep, Blues, March, Polka or Foxtrot. The theme for that season is “Musical, Operetta, Broadway”. In this post I will be adding any news concerning announcements that the teams may make. Post updated on August 6th Music Announcements: CANADA Carolane Soucisse & Shane Firus FD: Earned It, by TheWeeknd Nadiia Bashynska & Peter Beaumont RD: Carmen Suite, No. V, Carmen’s Entrance and Habanera; Carmen Suite, No. VI, Scene (Carmen, comp. Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin) FD: Fairy Godmother; La Valse Champagne; Pumpkin Pursuit; Courage and Kindness (Cinderella, comp. Patrick Doyle) Jessica-Lee Behiel & Jackson Behiel RD: El Choclo - Cello Project FD: Amarcord (Amarcord, comp. Nino Rota); La Passerella Di Addio (8 & 1/2, comp. Nino Rota); Amarcord Suite (Amarcord) Amelia Boone & Malcolm Kowan RD: La Cumparsita [Questo Tango] (Milva) FD: Le Temps Des Cathédrales; Belle; Déchiré (Notre-Dame de Paris, perf. Bruno Pelletier, Patrick Fiori, Garou, Daniel Lavoie) Emmy Bronsard & Aissa Bouaraguia RD: El Choclo; Let’s Face the Music and Dance (Nat King Cole) FD: Tightrope; The Greatest Show (The Greatest Showman, perf. Michelle Williams, Hugh Jackman) Natalie D’Alessandro & Bruce Waddell RD: Querer; Toreador by Rene Dupere - Cirque du Soleil FD: Carmen Suite, No. I: Introduction (comp. Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin); Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona Alicia Fabbri & Paul Ayer RD A Evaristo Carriego; Obertuna (Forever Tango): FD: Quand On N’a Que L’amour (Catherine Major); Quand On N’a Que L’amour (Daniel Boucher, Marie-Jo Thériault, Pierre Lapointe) Ellie Fisher & Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette RD: Tango D’Amor (Tango Jointz feat. Bellma Cespedes); Verano Portena (perf. Tango Quattro) FD: Look Down (Les Miserables, perf. Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe); I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables, perf. Glee Cast); Les Miserables Orchestral Instrumental Medley (Les Miserables, comp. Claude-Michel Schönberg) Irina Galiyanova & Grayson Lochhead RD: Los Pájaros Perdidos - Contramarca FD: Hurt - Agrupacion LatinHits; Hurt - Christina Aguilera Erin Gillies & Joshua Tarry RD: All’osteria (Milva); Milonga de Mis Amores (Quartango) FD: Un Giorno Per Noi (perf. Josh Groban); Fortune’s Fool (Romeo & Juliet, comp. Abel Korzeniowski) Shaelene Katrayan & Jordan Derochie RD: Solamente Ella (Orquesta Romantica Milonguera); Tango Nada (Danilo Venturi) FD: Summer Lovin’; Hopelessly Devoted to You; You’re the One That I Want - Grease soundtrack Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha FD: Warsaw Concerto - Richard Addinsell Bridget Le Donne & Jakub Smal RD: Adios Nonino - Astor Piazzolla Jasmine Levesque & Olivier Poupart RD: Solo Por Hoy (Carlos Libedinsky); Lado C (Narcotango) FD: Sun on Sunday; Same Mistake (James Blunt) Miku Makita & Tyler Gunara RD: El Huracán (Florindo Sassone y Su Orquesta); Tus Ojos de Cielo (Forever Tango) FD: First Date (Edvin Marton); Rain (Simply Three) Cassidy McFarlane & Alexandre Faucher RD: Tu Sentimiento - Tango Jointz feat. Bellma Cespedes FD: Evgeni’s Waltz; Satin Birds; Dance for Me Wallis (W.E., comp. Abel Korzeniowski) Olivia McIsaac & Corey Circelli RD: Cell Block Tango; All That Jazz - Chicago soundtrack FD: There Will Be Time (Mumford & Sons and Baaba Maal) Yuka Orihara & Lee Royer RD: Infiltrado - Bajofondo FD: I Was Made for Loving You - Tori Kelly; Give Me Love - Ed Sheeran Katrine Roy & Oliver Zhang RD: Peligro [Lagartijeando Remix]; Peligro (Gotan Project) FD: Mia and Sebastian’s Theme; Planetarium; Another Day of Sun (La La Land, comp. Justin Hurwitz) Sophia Simitsakos & Jeffrey Wong RD: Tango Till They’re Sore (Madeleine Peyroux); Milonga de Mis Amores (Quartango) FD: Paint It Black (perf. Escala); As Tears Go By; Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones) Ashlynne Stairs & Elliott Graham RD: Lastima Grande (Glover Gill); Tanguera (Forever Tango) FD: Welcome to Burlesque (Burlesque, Cher); Bound to You; Something’s Got a Hold On Me (Christina Aguilera) Colleen Tordoff & Vladimir Tchernov RD: Assassin’s Tango (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, comp. John Powell) FD: Cheek to Cheek; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Ella Fitzgerald); Anything Goes (Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga) CHINA NEW Shiyue Wang & Xinyu Liu RD: Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack FD: "Meant" by Elizaveta FRANCE Natacha Lagouge & Corentin Rahier FD: Camelot Soundtrack Marie-Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac RD: Chicago Soundtrack (x) FD: Bruno Mars medley GERMANY Charise Matthaei & Maximilian Pfisterer NEW RD: Flamenco: Spanish Flame by Maxime Rodriguez; Argentine Tango: Tango d'Amor; Flamenco: Farrucas by Pepe Romero FD: This World Will Remember Me by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black; How 'bout A Dance (reprise) by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black Lara Luft & Asaf Kazimov NEW RD: Argentine Tango: Tango de Besame performed by Benise; Waltz: Corazon d'Oro by Lalo Shifrin FD: Say Something by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera; Sixth Breath by Ezio Bosso; The Last Breath by Ezio Bosso GREAT BRITAIN Emily Rose Brown & James Hernandez NEW RD: Tango Instrumental - Mgzavebi by Roni Benise, Bamboleo by Gypsy Kings FD: "Happy" by C2C (Coups 2 Cross), "Stand By Me" performed by Ben E. King, "Happy" by C2C (Coups 2 Cross) ISRAEL Shira Ichilov & Vadim Davidovich RD: Chicago soundtrack ITALY Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri FD: La La Land Soundtrack JAPAN Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto FD: Love Story RUSSIA Sofia Evdokimova & Egor Bazin FD: Sarabande Suite (Aeternae), by Globus Betina Popova & Sergey Mozgov RD: Tango in a Madhouse - by Alfred Schnittke FD: Master and Margarita by Igor Korniliuk Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov FD: Air, Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major - Bach Sofya Tyutyunina & Alexander Shustitskiy NEW RD: Tango Gosselin by Quatro Nuevo FD: Time of the Season by The Zombies; She's not Here by The Zombies Elizaveta Shanaeva & Devid Naryzhnyk NEW RD: Tango d'Amor by Tango Jointz; Maria de Buenos Aires FD: Samson and Dalilah by Camille Saint-Saens Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva & Nikita Nazarov NEW RD: Tango Amore by Edvin Marton FD: Human (Acoustic) by Rag'n'Bone Man; Human by Rag'n'Bone Man; Nemesis by Benjamin Clementine Polina Ivanenko & Daniil Karpov NEW RD: Tango FD: Peter Gunn soundtrack Ekaterina Andreeva & Ivan Desyatov NEW RD: Charleston; Tango FD: Sherlock Holmes (soundtrack) by Hans Zimmer Sofia Shevchenko & Igor Eremenko NEW RD: La Cumparsita FD: Intro by Onuka; Witchdoctor by Camo & Krooked; Lijo by Alina Orlova Eva Kuts & Dmitrii Mikhailov NEW RD: Prelude and Ricercare performed by Nuevo Tango Orchestra FD: Every Other Freckle by alt-J SPAIN Sara Hurtado & Kirill Khaliavin RD: Libertango FD: Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd; Sign of the times - Harry Styles UKRAINE Alexandra Nazarova & Maxim Nikitin RD: Chicago soundtrack FD: City Lights - Charlie Chaplin Darya Popova & Volodymyr Byelikov NEW RD: Waltz: Larrons en foire by Raphael Beau; Tango FD: Chopin Nocturne performed by David Garrett; Run by Ludovico Einaudi Anna Cherniavska & Volodymyr Horovyi NEW RD: Epoca by Gotan Project; Diabolique by Raphael Beau FD: Money (from "Cabaret") by John Kander, Fred Ebb USA Alina Efimova & Alexander Petrov FD: Who Wants to Live Forever- Queen Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko RD: Jealousy Tango, Yo Soy Maria (choreo by Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo) FD: Tokio Myers versions of Clair de Lune, Bloodstream, Angel (choreo Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo) Lorraine McNamara & Quinn Carpenter RD: Desde El Alma FD: Porz Goret - Yann Tiersen Rachel Parsons & Michael Parsons RD: Vuelvo Al Sur FD: To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra Eliana Gropman & Ian Sommerville RD: "Nuevo tango" by Cuarteto Nuevo Tango; "La Cascada" FD: "Le Bien qui fait mal" by Mozart Opera Rock Coaching Changes: CHINA Hong Chen & Zhuoming Sun will train with Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haugenauer Shiyue Wang & Xinyu Liu will train with Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haugenauer GERMANY Katharina Muller & Tim Dieck left Canton and will train in Moscow with Gorshkov JAPAN Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto will train with Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haugenauer RUSSIA Betina Popova & Sergey Mozgov will train with Krylova and Chaikovskaia US Madison Chock & Evan Bates will train at Gadbois with Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haugenauer Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker will train with Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haugenauer Splits/Retirements: ARMENIA Tina Garabedian & Simon Proulx Senecal AUSTRALIA Adele Morrison & Demid Rokachev NEW CANADA Vanessa Chartrand & Alexander Seidel Jolie Che & Paul Ayer Ravie Cunningham & Cedar Bridgewood Kaitlyn Chubb & Alex Gunther (x) Natascha Collier & Phillippe Marchand Leia Dozzi & Liam Fawcett Alicia Fabbri & Claudio Pietrantonio Irina Galiyanova & Tommy Tang (x) Keelee Gringrich & Parker Brown – both retired Olivia Han & Grayson Lochhead Jade McCue & Gabriel Clemente Cassidy McFarlane & Kameron Jeromkin Olivia McIsaac & Elliott Graham Théadora Sauvé & Alexandre Faucher Elysia-Marie Campbell & Philippe Granger Ashlynne Stairs & Lee Royer Valerie Taillefer & Jason Chan CHINA Hong Chen & Yan Zhao Linshu Song & Zhuoming Sun CZECH REPUBLIC Lucy Burton & Thomas Ingall FRANCE Angelique Abachkina & Louis Thauron - split (x) Julia Wagret & Mathieu Couyras Adelina Galayavieva & Laurent Abecassis Lorenza Alessandrini & Pierre Souquet - Alessandini retired (x) GERMANY Kavita Lorenz & Joti Polizoakis - Lorenz retired (x) GREAT BRITAIN Olivia Dufour & Luke Russel ITALY Alice Rossi & Marco Cilli KOREA Yura Min & Alexander Gamelin (x) LITHUANIA Guoste Damuleviciute & Deividas Kizala MEXICO Megumi Tsutsumi & Devin Dickey POLAND Yohanna Broker & Yann Thayalan RUSSIA Ksenia Konkina & Grigory Yakushev Alla Lodoba & Pavel Drodz NEW Evgeniia Lopareva & Alexey Karpushov Sofia Polishchuk & Alexander Vakhnov (x) SLOVAKIA Lucie Mysliveckova & Lukas Csolley (x) SPAIN Celia Robledo & Luis Fenero – both retired (x) SWITZERLAND Cindy-Lilli Zimmerli & Volodymyr Nakisko TURKEY Alisa Agafonova & Alper Ucar – both retired (x) UKRAINE Olga Giglava & Yegor Yegorov USA Elliana Pogrebinsky & Alex Benoit – Benoit retired (x) Julia Biechler & Damian Dodge Ashley Bain & Oleg Altukhov Nicolette Fey & Caleb Niva Amanda Miller & Daniel Tsarik Daria Popova & Cameron Colucci New Partnerships: CANADA Irina Galiyanova & Grayson Lochhead (x) Olivia McIsaac & Corey Circelli (x) Alicia Fabbri & Paul Ayer (x) Cassidy McFarlane & Alexandre Faucher (x) Ashlynne Stairs & Elliott Graham (x) NEW Yuka Orihara & Lee Royer (x) NEW Cassidy McFarlane & Alexandre Faucher (x) NEW CHINA Hong Chen & Zhuoming Sun FRANCE Julia Wagret & Pierre Souquet (x) Adelina Galayavieva & Louis Thauron - training with Krylova Angelique Abachkina and Alexey Shchepetov (x) RUSSIA Ksenia Konkina & Alexander Vakhnov Sofia Polishuk & Grigory Yakushev Daria Drozd & Deividas Kizala (may be for Lithuania) SWEDEN Anna Pettersson & TJ Cary USA Sara Zhao & Caleb Niva Other news:
Canada: Laurence Fournier-Beaudry and Nikolaj Sorensen stop representing Denmark and start representing Canada Canada: Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje to sit out Grand Prix season NEW USA: Maia and Alex Shibutani will sit out the 2018-2019 season USA: Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko are moving to seniors Coaching News: Greg Zuerlein is leaving Novi (x) and will coach in Wheaton. Krylova is coaching in Russia. Maxim Stavisky is working with in this group. Camerlengo is working with Shpilband.
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It is official: the season has started. It began with the juniors taking the ice in Australia between the 23rd and the 26th of August.
Here are the results of the ice dance couples: Russian Junior Nationals took place between the 1st and 5th of February. After the European Championships and while people await for the Four Continents, all eyes were on Saint Petersburg particularly for the ladies event, which is always of remarkable quality in Russia. Nevertheless, ice dance was also an interesting competition especially because of the closeness of some teams that could have made the team for Junior Worlds. Here are the results of the competition: On what concerns the review of the competition, I will comment on what went down with the main teams and will highlight the couples that I really liked. I will be talking about them by the order in which they started the short dance, with the exception of the first couple which only competed the short dance. Ekaterina Andreeva / Ivan Desyatov
Yana Buga / Georgiy Pokhilyuk
Evgeniia Lopareva / Alexey Karpushov
Eva Kuts / Dmitrii Mikhailov
Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko
Daria Rumyantseva / Dmitry Ryabchenko
Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov
Angelina Lazareva / Maxim Prokofiev
Elizaveta Khudaberdieva / Nikita Nazarov
Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshini
Arina Ushakova / Maxim Nekrasov
Polina Ivanenko / Daniil Karpov
Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov
Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd
Ksenia Konkina / Grigory Yakushev
Overall, this competition was quite exciting and I think the judging was better than in the senior competition (there was not a large inflation of marks). Moreover, the fact that Shpilevaya/Smirnov earned the title with strong performances may be an indication of what will happen at Junior Worlds. One thing is certain: this is a team that next year will be on the podium. Another couple standing out was Polishchuk/Vakhnov, as they were quite close at making the team for Junior Worlds. With Lodoba/Drozd moving to the senior ranks next season, this team will be given more opportunities to gain experience.
Finally, one thing than concerns figure skating fans is which teams will probably be present at the Junior Grand Prix circuit next season. Based on the results, the teams that will make it may be: Shpilevaya/Smirnov; Skoptsova/Aleshin (I think their best bet would be to move to seniors this year, just like Pogrebinsky/Benoit of the USA did last season, but I don’t think it is going to happen); Polishchuk/Vakhnov; Konkina/Yakushev; Shevchenko/Eremenko; Khudaberdieva/Nazarov and Ushakova/Nekrasov (this couple has not been showing that great results, so maybe Lopareva/Karpushov may have a chance, while I would prefer Kuts/Mikhailov). One team I would love to see would be Ivanenko/Karpov. I guess the last spot will be decided in Test Skates between them, Lopareva/Karpushov, Ushakova/Nekrasov and Kuts/Mikhailov. Moreover, Andreeva/Desyatov may also have a say, because they did well in the short dance and did not perform the free, so if they show they are reliable they may be assigned a Grand Prix. |
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