2025-26 U.S. Ice Dance News, Updates & Discussion - Backstreet Boys & Spice Girls

[Aceon6]

We just have to hope that Pasha does not give Aboian relationship advice.

Hana’s a New Englander. Skepticism is in her blood.

 

[TwizzlerS]

Since this thread is about US dance, I wanted to point out that I believe 5 of the 6 female ice dancers at the senior Grand Prix are American

 

[jlai]

Nov. 3:

Aboian/Veselukhin's entrance before the Junior Grand Prix Final RD earlier today : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4DU4-kRjF/

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A/V's new ISU personal best score (66.77) in Nagoya! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSSPQHTpORQ

The first year team of Jasmine Robertson/Chase Rohner, coached by Shpilband's group in Novi, skated well and are in 4th place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mNZbhVffIY

Since this thread is about US dance, I wanted to point out that I believe 5 of the 6 female ice dancers at the senior Grand Prix are American

Lilah Fear isn’t American according to Wiki though she was born in the states. Of course wiki can be wrong

 

[Sylvia]

From a BBC article: "[Lilah] Fear was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, to Canadian parents but was raised in London and has Canadian-British citizenship."

Copied out from the ISU's Junior Ice Dance press conference highlights document:

Hana Maria Aboian & Daniil Veselukhin (USA) 2025 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final Champions
Aboian: Now the competition is over and it feels incredible to compete here and to deliver two our best performances.
We are very grateful to everyone who supports us, it was an amazing event. We are really proud of ourselves and
work we put on to the ice. (on their inspiration in ice dance) My inspiration as skaters are Oksana Grishchuk and
Marina Anissina. They really brought up the ice dance to another level. They gave that level of performance that will
always be remembered in history. To me there are two incredibly talented individuals that I always look back and
watch. They brought so much to this sport.
Veselukhin: My inspiration are Oksana Grishchuk and Evgenii Platov. There are two legends. I like to look at them and
their beautiful programs, to see them skating. It always inspires me to push forward and keep going on. For us hard
work is a clue to compete and to show what the skating can be. Of course we are a bit stressed as it’s our first Grand
Prix Final, that can causes nerves and stress. But as we step on the ice that goes away and we just enjoy and try to
show you this. Coming here out mentality was to give our best performances and that performances have to be
memorable. We tried to create a storyline in our programs.

Excerpt from USFS' event recap article:

In the junior ice dance event, Hana Maria Aboian and Daniil Veselukhin continued their win streak, capturing their fifth international title of the season. In doing so, they became the ninth American ice dance team to stand atop the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating podium. This is also the second time in three seasons that Team USA has captured both the junior and senior level ice dance titles in the event.
"These past two years as a partnership have led us to truly build and create stories. After last season ended, we recuperated and created new ideas, and we worked extremely hard over the summer to develop our programs and to make a larger step up to be able to compete here and just compete at a high level," Aboian said. "Now that the competition is over, it was truly incredible to deliver two of our best performances, I would say. We're really glad to have skated here." [...]
"It was an amazing event, and it was just great to be here," Veselukhin said. "We had a lot of stress coming into this event. It was our first big event, I would say, and there were some new feelings. To be surrounded by the greatest skaters on earth is truly amazing and mesmerizing, and I think it gives you more power and more energy in your programs."