2024–25 Canadian Ice Dance: News and Updates

[curmudge]

Skate Onteraion July Sectional Series

SENIOR RHYTHM DANCE
Kieran MacDonald	Alisa Korneva	Kitchener - Waterloo Skating Club
Peter Beaumont	Nadia Bashynska	Scarboro Figure Skating Club
Tanner White	Gabriela Palomeque	Nepean SC/Rideau SC

SENIOR FREE DANCE
Kieran MacDonald	Alisa Korneva	Kitchener - Waterloo Skating Club
Peter Beaumont	Nadia Bashynska	Scarboro Figure Skating Club
Shaan Tahir	Julia Ferreira	King City Skating Club
Tanner White	Gabriela Palomeque	Nepean SC/Rideau SC

JUNIOR RHYTHM DANCE
Aiden Dotzert	Caroline Kravets	Kitchener - Waterloo Skating Club
Andrei Carandiuc	Victoria Carandiuc	Patinage Roussillon
Anthony MacDonald	Amelia Dufour-Saysourinho	CPA de Valleyfield inc.
Axel MacKenzie	Charlotte Chung	North Toronto Skating Club/Scarboro FSC
Jacob Yang	Lauren Batkova	North Point Skating Academy
Michael Boutsan	Madison Tong	Scarboro Figure Skating Club
Thierry Caron	Nelly-Anne Chao	Patinage Ahuntsic/CPA Ville-Marie inc.
Wesley Lockwood	Anna Mackenzie	Skate Kingston

JUNIOR FREE DANCE
Aiden Dotzert	Caroline Kravets	Kitchener - Waterloo Skating Club
Andrei Carandiuc	Victoria Carandiuc	Patinage Roussillon
Anthony MacDonald	Amelia Dufour-Saysourinho	CPA de Valleyfield inc.
Axel MacKenzie	Charlotte Chung	North Toronto Skating Club/Scarboro FSC
Michael Boutsan	Madison Tong	Scarboro Figure Skating Club
Thierry Caron	Nelly-Anne Chao	Patinage Ahuntsic/CPA Ville-Marie inc.
Wesley Lockwood	Anna Mackenzie	Skate Kingston

 

[Wyliefan]

Tiny clip of Bashynska/Beaumont's FD. The song playing is "Alejandro" by Lady Gaga, but it's not confirmed yet that this is their FD music.

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[shutterbug]

Lengthy Rob Brodie interview with LaLa : https://rwbrodiewrites.substack.com/p/we-know-exactly-where-we-want-to

While last season’s rhythm dance was a literal “Thriller,” filled with plenty of fun and energy, Lagha agrees the theme for the 2024-25 season — “Social Dances and Styles of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s” — is a blank canvas that he and Lajoie can paint into something equally spectacular.

“It’s definitely as fun or even more fun than it was with Michael Jackson. It’s a thing that everybody is going to know,” he says in offering the smallest of hints about the program. “It’s going to be a lot of work as well, like kind of theatrical work, acting work, as opposed to Michael Jackson, which was more like the feeling of the essence of the music. This one, we have to do a bit more acting.”

 

[leilaofpaper]

Lengthy Rob Brodie interview with LaLa : https://rwbrodiewrites.substack.com/p/we-know-exactly-where-we-want-to

My first thought was Grease for some reason, but excited to see what they come up with!

 

[Colonel Green]

I'm really excited to see what this coming season looks like for Marjorie & Zach.

 

[curmudge]

Kitchener-Waterloo has a new ice dance posting https://www.instagram.com/kwicedance_
Looks like 3 teams:
Korneva/MacDonald
Kravets/Dotzert (new)
Eby/Stark (new)

 

[LoisAGOEs]

Kitchener-Waterloo has a new ice dance posting https://www.instagram.com/kwicedance_
Looks like 3 teams:
Korneva/MacDonald
Kravets/Dotzert (new)
?/Stark (new)

Based on the tags I assume it’s Rilee Eby who was on ice partner search earlier this year.

 

[curmudge]

Based on the tags I assume it’s Rilee Eby who was on ice partner search earlier this year.

Updated

 

[Wyliefan]

Cross-posted from the Canadian competition thread:
More modern FD for Bashynska/Beaumont than their usual. Shazam wouldn't cooperate, so I'm not sure what the songs were, but they were all instrumental and mostly upbeat. I can't say I like this as much as their usual style, but I do love Nadiia's dress -- sparkly light blue and lavender with a fringe skirt. Fast program -- they were WINDED at the end. 101.82 FD score.

Also, here's video of their RD (thanks to @victorskid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g75ROVvDuT8

 

[SkateJoy]

Their RD is okay, but their FD is junior-ish and a real regression from last year’s programs. Is there time for a new FD before the challenger series??

 

[Wyliefan]

Video of Bash/Beau's FD (thanks to @shutterbug): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NzPslLNCRo
Music ID (thanks to @tony):

First Piece ?
The Bass (Chacha) by Watazu
Rhumba Rhythm Only Instrumental by Walter Laird & Nico Gomez
Call Me Manny from Babylon by Justin Hurwitz

 

[Andora]

Is her posture always... visibly questionable? Or is it just this program?

I agree with sentiment mentioned that this isn't an ideal FD, but I think they can change my mind with more miles/comfort with the program. And good on them for trying something new.

 

[DORISPULASKI]

I think the first piece might be "Watarhythm" (Samba) by Watazu?

They are a dancesport band.

The whole FD is "skaters do dancesport " to CD remix?

 

[marbri]

So for someone who once said she didn't want to be the Costco of ice dance I didn't realise at the time it meant she wanted to be the dollar store of ice dance. If you are going to skate a FD length RD at least, for the love of god, give us some fun music.

 

[Alilou]

Rob Brodie's latest column - interview with Gilles and Poirier - and a delicious rant at the end about the CAS decision

'This is our choice to be here'

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier are so close to a World title, they can taste it. And that's the fuel that drives the Canadian ice dancers to keep extending their careers.

rwbrodiewrites.substack.com

 

[haribobo]

Top Summer Scores 2024-25 so far

SENIOR
Lauriault/LeGac 191
Fabbri/Ayer 185
Hensen/Lickers 177
Bashynska/Beaumont 171
Robinson/Portz 156
Korneva/McDonald 150
Forurnier/Zhu 149


JUNIOR
Nguyen/Giang 156
Veillon/Brandys 148
Gauthier/Thieren 147
Cincon-Debout/Celestino 139
Homick/Buelow 139
Martins/Kowalcyk 135
Briere/Levesque 128
Kravetz/Dotzert 127
Gover/Wilson-French 125
Carandiuc/Carandiuc 121

 

[victorskid]

Piper Gilles is the guest on the Skate Ontario podcast Let's Talk About It With Pj Kwong - listen or watch here: https://skateontario.org/intheloop/lets-talk-about-it-piper-gilles/

 

[4rkidz]

Piper Gilles is the guest on the Skate Ontario podcast Let's Talk About It With Pj Kwong - listen or watch here: https://skateontario.org/intheloop/lets-talk-about-it-piper-gilles/

What an excellent podcast! So educational and informative.

 

[Wyliefan]

Piper and Paul are teasing a music announcement soon: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_LK15wuRYh/?e=9d8c2739-9326-459f-9b0e-541a5ea0d65b&g=5

 

[jmtfti]

Media day at High Performance Camp is tomorrow, so I'd imagine program news might come out then, if not for them, then for other Canadian teams.

 

[Wyliefan]

Charlotte Chung/Axel Mackenzie and Anna Mackenzie/Wesley Lockwood are switching to Sweden.

https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00117814.htm

https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00121131.htm

 

[Karen-W]

Charlotte Chung/Axel Mackenzie and Anna Mackenzie/Wesley Lockwood are switching to Sweden.

https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00117814.htm

https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00121131.htm

Literally the wildest thing to me about this Olympic cycle so far is how Sweden went from 0 ice dance teams at either the senior or junior level in 2023 to 5 - 2 in senior last season and now 3 more in junior this season.

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

Literally the wildest thing to me about this Olympic cycle so far is how Sweden went from 0 ice dance teams at either the senior or junior level in 2023 to 5 - 2 in senior last season and now 3 more in junior this season.

Wonder if there is any carryover effect from the success US born pole vaulter Armand Duplantis is having in representing Sweden? Makes the representation of Sweden very visible for athletes of Swedish origins born in other countries.

 

[Karen-W]

Wonder if there is any carryover effect from the success US born Armand Duplantis is having in representing Sweden? Makes the representation of Sweden very visible for athletes of Swedish origins born in other countries.

Well, all three of the junior teams have at least one Canadian or American partner while the other partner is Swedish-Canadian or Swedish-American. I don't know that I think it's because of the success of Mondo so much as it is exploring other opportunities to compete internationally since the US and Canadian ice dance fields are so deep.

 

[Karen-W]

I really do not understand what the heck Skate Canada was thinking in keeping Gauthier/Thieren assigned to the first JGP when they were coming back from a concussion injury. They clearly weren't ready for competition yet and with 2 spots at each JGP, Canada could have easily swapped them out with another team and given them a couple more weeks before debuting. If the rationale behind dropping back down to juniors for this season is to 1) give them more competition experience and 2) hopefully qualify for the JGPF then keeping them assigned to the first JGP while recovering from injury has resulted in a strategic failure.

 

[Sylvia]

Bringing this over from Lajoie/Lagha's cheer thread:

a new interview with Rob Brodie talking about their new programs https://rwbrodiewrites.substack.com/p/we-dont-want-to-do-the-same-thing

"(UPDATE; Lajoie and Lagha have withdrawn from Budapest Trophy due to an undisclosed injury issue. They are expected to be ready to compete at Skate Canada International)."

 

[Sylvia]

Canadian junior ice dance teams' JGP results so far:

Riga:
5th Sandrine Gauthier & Quentin Thieren 147.88
6th Auréa Cinçon-Debout & Earl Jesse Celestino 133.70

Ostrava:
BRONZE Layla Veillon & Alexander Brandys 144.82
12th Laurence Brière & Julien Lévesque 116.99

Bangkok:
4th Chloe Nguyen & Brendan Giang 146.78
8th Rachel Martins & Juel Kowalcyk 127.09

Ankara:
11th Laurence Brière & Julien Lévesque 126.64
12th Sophia Gover & Billy Wilson-French 121.58

Gdansk:
SILVER Sandrine Gauthier & Quentin Thieren 160.75
7th Summer Homick & Nicholas Buelow (new; she switched from pairs earlier this year) 135.86

Ljubljana this week:
Layla Veillon & Alexander Brandys
Aurea Cinçon-Debout & Earl Jesse Celestino

Wuxi next week:
Victoria Carandiuc & Andrei Carandiuc
Chloe Nguyen & Brendan Giang

Substitute: Alyson Lacombe & Morgan Laliberté Laurent

Top 4 teams at 2024 Novice Nationals:
Laurence Brière / Julien Lévesque
Alyson Lacombe / Morgan Laliberté Laurent
Tasha Lai / Mickey Becker-Pos BC/YK (switched to represent TPE this season)
Rachel Martins / Juel Kowalczyk

Copying out the 10 NextGen ice dance teams for the 2024-25 season:
Laurence Brière | 16 | Carignan, Que. & Julien Lévesque | 18 | Boucherville, Que. | Mylène Girard
Victoria Carandiuc | 16 | Saint-Constant, Que. & Andrei Carandiuc | 17 | Saint-Constant, Que. | Mylène Girard
Auréa Cinçon-Debout | 17 | Montreal, Que. & Earl Jesse Celestino | 18 | Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Que. | Benjamin Brisebois & Ariane Émard-Lauzon
Audra Gans | 16 | Prévost, Que. & Gabriel Liu | 17 | Montreal, Que. | Benjamin Brisebois & Ariane Émard-Lauzon
Sandrine Gauthier | 20 | Saint-Constant, Que. & Quentin Thieren | 20 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Que. | Benjamin Brisebois & Patrice Lauzon
Sophia Gover | 19 | Minesing, Ont. & Billy Wilson-French | 21 | Scarborough, Ont. | Carol Lane & Juris Razgulajevs
Summer Homick | 17 | Tillsonburg, Ont. & Nicholas Buelow | 17 | Barrie, Ont. | David Islam & Mitchell Islam
Alyson Lacombe | 15 | Saint-Césaire, Que. & Morgan Laliberté Laurent | 17 | Boucherville, Que. | Mylène Girard & Amélie Fortin
Rachel Martins | 15 | Barrie, Ont. & Juel Kowalczyk | 18 | Toronto, Ont. | David Islam & Mitchell Islam
Chloe Nguyen | 19 | Burnaby, B.C. & Brendan Giang | 21 | Burnaby, B.C. | Aaron Lowe & Megan Wing
Layla Veillon | 18 | London, Ont. & Alexander Brandys | 19 | London, Ont. | Cara Moir & Scott Moir

 

[jmtfti]

Not sure where else to put this that's relatively current, but Alexandra Paul and Mitch Islam were inducted into the Barrie Sports Hall of Fame last night, with Mitch accepting the honor: https://www.instagram.com/p/DApgvIqsor3/?img_index=1

And an earlier article from Barrie Today.

 

[Karen-W]

Bronze for Fabbri/Ayer at Denis Ten Memorial and with a score that should move them up to the 1st position on the GP Alternates List! With the withdrawal of FBSoer from their GPs and the potential injury withdrawals of some other teams, it seems pretty likely that they'll wind up with a 2nd GP, but we shall wait and see.

 

[Sylvia]

Summer Homick & Nicholas Buelow Q&A (Oct. 9):

New Team Series: Summer Homick & Nicholas Buelow – Ice-dance.com

www.ice-dance.com

... At age 13 she began pairs and after three seasons of pairs skating she transitioned into ice dance.
Nicholas started free skating in Barrie when he was 5. He started because he had siblings in the sport and he wanted to give it a try for himself. When he was 8 he was approached by his now coach David Islam as to if he wanted to try ice dance and he wanted to continue to pursue that side of the sport. He continued to do both disciplines up until the age of 13 when he switched to just ice dance.
What drew you to ice dance?
When Nicholas first started ice dance at age 8, he realized he loved the performing side of skating and wanted to continue skating with someone. Summer was approached by an ice dance coach when she was a pairs skater who told her she should consider ice dance. After a few days of tryouts for ice dance, she was so interested in the discipline and wanted to pursue it.