Skate Canada Challenge (virtual), Jan. 8-10 & 15-17, 2021

[Skate Talker]

I'd really like to see this program again with more miles on it.

Me too. Of all the disciplines dance is the one where the programs improve the most over the course of the season. But if any of these skaters change their programs for next year at least we will have gotten to see them.

 

[Skate Talker]

Okay - lets try this for the last start list of the competition

FREE DANCE Start Order

1 Elysia-Marie Campbell / Liam Fawcett QC 59.48 (8)
2 Jessica-Lee Behiel / Jackson Behiel AB/NT/NU 59.74 (7)
3 Molly Lanaghan / Dmitre Razgulajevs ON 71.09 (6)
4 Haley Sales / Nikolas Wamsteeker BC/YK 72.61 (5)

5 Alicia Fabbri / Paul Ayer QC 75.00 (4)
6 Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha QC [NT] 81.58 (3)
7 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen QC [NT] 86.55 (2)
8 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier ON [NT] 87.96 (1)

(OMG ha ha - put it in as results by mistake)

 

[Colonel Green]

Natalie confirms to Ted that they plan on keeping the free dance for next season.

 

[Skate Talker]

Bruce Waddell & Natalie D Alessandro being interviewed now.

Bruce explaining how singles skating helps his ice dancing.

Natalie says they plan to keep this free dance for next year.

 

[Skate Talker]

Jessica-Lee Behiel / Jackson Behiel - aww too bad - not as steady a skate as the RD. Still I appreciate how they enjoy the skate and a few of their elements are really precise.

 

[Colonel Green]

This is a beautiful program, but I don’t understand how it satisfies the change of rhythm requirement.

 

[Skate Talker]

Molly Lanaghan / Dmitre Razgulajevs - perpetual motion - lovely ebb & flow.

just a bit of a rough last few seconds

 

[JoannaLouise]

Fabbri/Ayer are skating to Frida - and Paul is being very literal with his shirt.

 

[I Luv Bulldogs]

Nice to see actual costumes on our ice dancers.

 

[I Luv Bulldogs]

Fabbri/Ayer are skating to Frida - and Paul is being very literal with his shirt.

Her dress is pretty.

 

[Colonel Green]

It’s a shame that these two couldn’t have done another junior season after 2018/19, because they’re kind of stuck in no man’s land waiting the rest of the quad before the old guard retires.

 

[Colonel Green]

Good to know Sam Chouinard is in a good mood.

 

[JoannaLouise]

We're seeing lots of personality from Zach in this Rio FD. He is super into the bird theme, and I love it!

 

[Wyliefan]

Lord have mercy, I'd go bonkers if I had to listen to that Rio music in the rink every day.

 

[Skate Talker]

Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha - omg I am exhausted after that

 

[Colonel Green]

Now that’s a high-energy program all the way through. Probably would/will benefit from more mileage and a more regular season to train it.

 

[Amy L]

I've never seen Rio, but I remember that it had something to do with a parrot. I guess that's why Zachary pecked at her, but really??

 

[Amy L]

Laurence

 

[Wyliefan]

Heck of a lift! But I apologize to L/L's music. This music is exponentially worse. Complete with slam poetry.

 

[mackiecat]

I've never seen Rio, but I remember that it had something to do with a parrot. I guess that's why Zachary pecked at her, but really??

. It tells the story of Blu a domesticated male Spix's macaw who is taken to Rio de Janeiro to mate with a free-spirited female Spix's macaw, Jewel The two eventually fall in love, and together they have to escape from being smuggled by Nigel, a cockatoo.

 

[Wyliefan]

Ted never had a hope of pronouncing Fournier-Beaudry.

 

[Colonel Green]

A couple of awkward moments there (those we’re definitely not level 4 twizzles from Nik, tech panel), but I liked that more than I generally like voiceover programs.

 

[Skate Talker]

Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen - so interesting to watch - a bit messy at the end. More time and it's a keeper.

 

[Gris]

This FB/S FD is quite different from what I've expected. Listening to the song before I thought they'd use the flamenco-y part for most of the program...

 

[JoannaLouise]

Heck of a lift! But I apologize to L/L's music. This music is exponentially worse. Complete with slam poetry.

It is our responsibility to dance! The mystical force commands it!

The voiceovers were definitely a bit WTF, but I loved all the lifts. (Well, except for the last one...that was an oops.)

 

[Dave of the North]

Watching this dance is heavy work, something like reading a worthy book.

 

[Colonel Green]

Long tech panel wait. Not generally good news.

 

[Wyliefan]

Shoot, I'm getting called away before Piper and Paul skate. Someone please let me know where I can watch it later.

 

[tony]

Beautiful skate for G/P. Just one small balance check for her on the one-foot sequence, that's the only thing I saw wrong in the entire program. And this always manages to be a fast 4 minutes, so fast and flowing. Wonderful choreography.

 

[Colonel Green]

Shoot, I'm getting called away before Piper and Paul skate. Someone please let me know where I can watch it later.

It’ll be archived on Dailymotion.

I’m also going to upload it to YouTube eventually, but that probably won’t be until tomorrow since downloads take a while and sadly I have to work tomorrow.