2025 GPF Ice Dance Rhythm Dance -“Are you gonna slow my way?”

[SHARPIE]

NATION

1

Emilea ZINGAS

Vadym KOLESNIK
USA​

2

Allison REED

Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS
LTU​

3

Piper GILLES

Paul POIRIER
CAN​

4

Lilah FEAR

Lewis GIBSON
GBR​

5

Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY

Guillaume CIZERON
FRA​

6

Madison CHOCK

Evan BATES
USA​

 

[victorskid]

Start Order/Results: https://results.isu.org/results/season2526/gpf2025/SEG007.htm
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Emilea ZINGAS / Vadym KOLESNIK USA
2 Allison REED / Saulius AMBRULEVICIUS LTU
3 Piper GILLES / Paul POIRIER CAN

Warm-Up Group 2
4 Lilah FEAR / Lewis GIBSON GBR
5 Laurence FOURNIER BEAUDRY / Guillaume CIZERON FRA
6 Madison CHOCK / Evan BATES USA

ISU YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Uc4fx5Il8

Planned Program Content, etc. can be found in the Media section on this page: https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/events/eventdetail/isu-grand-prix-final-2025/

JUDGING PANEL
Referee Mr. Rolf PIPOH ISU
Technical Controller Mr. Marcin KOZUBEK ISU
Technical Specialist Ms. Ayako HIGASHINO ISU
Technical Specialist Ms. Taehwa YANG ISU

Judge No.1 Ms. Patty KLEIN CAN
Judge No.2 Ms. Akiko KOBAYASHI JPN
Judge No.3 Mr. Nicholas RUSSELL GBR
Judge No.4 Ms. Laimute KRAUZIENE LTU
Judge No.5 Ms. Janis ENGEL USA
Judge No.6 Mr. Attila SOOS HUN
Judge No.7 Mr. Feng HUANG CHN
Judge No.8 Ms. Jezabel DABOUIS FRA
Judge No.9 Ms. Nadezhda PARETSKAIA KAZ

Data Operator Ms. Samanta KOVALKOVA ISU
Replay Operator Ms. Ranko HIRAI ISU

 

[victorskid]

Coming up - the final event of Day 1 - will I be able to stay awake through it before heading off to bed?!?! Once in bed, will my let me sleep??

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

I've now had 4 cups of coffee so I'm all revved up to hate watch the 90s RDs. May the tackiest program reign supreme.

 

[Citlali]

I'm awake to watch all the skaters
Is the 90s theme RD

 

[MINAM]

TV Asahi showing the Nagoya Castle and the arena where the event is taking place.

Ice dancers entering the ice. The drum performance is nice.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Let's see of I detest these rds any less second time

 

[rfisher]

Blah scoring in the Pair SP. Good scoring in the men, Where will dance fall on the spectrum?

Chock vs Cizeron round one

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Let's see of I detest these rds any less second time

The IDTC has decreed we should all detest this year's RDs.

 

[MINAM]

My recent trend is watching West coast swing dance. Watching these top ice skaters is fun, too.
Plus, the music is "September" Yeah

 

[MacMadame]

Mark says the audience will love the RDs.

 

[beckab81]

Zingas’s hair is driving me crazy - it’s an R&B program, but the hair is straight out of an early Britney Spears video. Just a mismatch that keeps distracting me.

 

[Karen-W]

Let's see of I detest these rds any less second time

Doubtful. I've seen all these programs at least twice now and most of them are still shite.

 

[tony]

My feed completely froze so besides thinking they are a bit too far apart with every element, I got nothing.

 

[MINAM]

OK, let's go.

1 Emilea ZINGAS/Vadym KOLESNIK USA

Lots of arm moves to the drums.
In synch
Music is "Poison", right?
Music turns slow
SInce TV Asahi is delivering only with the sound of the arena (no commentators), I have nothing to say. LOL
Back to poison again.
Whoa lift spins was fast
Not sure about the edges but they delivered.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Zingas’s hair is driving me crazy - it’s an R&B program, but the hair is straight out of an early Britney Spears video. Just a mismatch that keeps distracting me.

Aside from the shitastic music choices, most of the styling for the 90s RDs is just wrong.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Zingas/Kolesnyk is easily not the worst way to start this competition.

That said, I can think of at least five couples that should have been at this gpf instead....

Reed/Ambrulevicis is not one of them.

 

[Desperado]

Good day, all! Glad I warmed up with the men and some of the pairs for this Rhythm Dance.

 

[MacMadame]

Music turns slow

Whenever that happens, it's the Pattern Step Seq.

 

[skatingguy]

Emileas Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik
Coach: I. Shpilband, N. Deller, A. Lenda
Music: Poison, Something in Your Eyes

Midline Step Sequence W:2 M:2 S (W:1 M:1 after review)
Sequential Twizzles W:4 M:4
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 2 (1 after review)
Rotational Lift 4
Choreo Rhythm Sequence

Looked pretty good, and again they've been very consistent with this program this season.

-2.00 = Illegal Element/Movement
72.58 = 1st Place

 

[skategal]

Good but kind of feels like they could be skating to any music except for the last minute.

 

[MINAM]

It's really weird a live broadcast with nobody speaking. It's kinda refreshing.
Showing Z/K in slow motion.

I guess they are content with the scores.

 

[Sally1214]

Z/K....I enjoyed that. Lots of energy!

 

[Karen-W]

Mark's telling us that the tech panel isn't being kind to ZingKol.

 

[her grace]

Z/K

Nice fluidity in their body movement, level 2s on turns and steps (sounds like these dropped on review), I really like that Kolesnik is so engaged in the choreography and isn’t just presenting Zingas—wonderful dance-y quality

 

[MacMadame]

Zingas’s hair is driving me crazy - it’s an R&B program, but the hair is straight out of an early Britney Spears video. Just a mismatch that keeps distracting me.

According to the internet:

The band is best known for their debut album, the multi-platinum selling Poison, a key work in the new jack swing movement of the 1990s that combined elements of traditional soul and R&B with hip hop

And I find their costumes consistent with that.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Do we think we will survive two too sexies in a row? And which one is sexier - Alyson or Paul?

 

[her grace]

Oh good, more k-n-c confused looks

 

[tony]

That was hilariously awkward. Emilia was staring waiting for an explanation for the -2.00 and Igor said absolutely nothing and then just shrugged after some seconds and laughed

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Do we think we will survive two too sexies in a row? And which one is sexier - Alyson or Paul?

Saulius's shirt.