2026 European Championships - Rhythm Dance - "No Steps Please, We're Shittish"

[Lanie]

I’m still doing music now for men’s practice and I’m falling asleep I got up at 2:30am

I doubt the RDs will wake me up

 

[miffy]

Aww I remember the Kerrs FD to Backstreet Boys in 2002-3 (before they started winning)

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

To all who wondered: the largest cities of Cyprus are Moscow and Tyumen.

I am enjoying them more than I expected. I am wondering about the thought process that brought her trousers into existence, though.

 

[Allen]

Where were you in October? Personal Jesus is August 1989, while the album itself is 1990, to which a select few posters went on a whole "tHey ShoUlD haVe KnoWN thE RuLes" but now very clearly the rules don't matter, and no deductions.

I thought we were talking about Enjoy the Silence. Sorry.

 

[skatingguy]

Angelina Kudryavtseva/Ilia Karankevich
Coach: M. Zanni, B. Reznickova, K. Mueller
Music: Larger Than Life, Everybody

Sequential Twizzles W:4 M:4 (W:4 M:2 after review)
Midline Step Sequence W:1 M:1 (W:1 M:2 after review) - Angelina with a stumble on a twizzle at centre ice
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 1
Rotational Lift 4
Choreo Rhythm Sequence !

Good energy, and one of the few teams doing the choreo rhythm sequence away from as opposed to towards the judges. Unfortunate stumble from Angelina on the midline sequence which may keep them from advancing to the free dance.

58.10 = 2nd Place

 

[Citlali]

I used to love BSB and these dances are ruining my 90s nostalgia

 

[Tak]

Really nice and cool costumes!

Are you talking about the Cyprus team? I like their costumes too. I've always like this team. too bad about the stumble.

 

[her grace]

Cyprus team

Really butchered the music cuts to BSB such that the lyrics didn’t make sense. Nice harem pants from her

 

[rfisher]

The men's SP and pair FS went like I wanted so I'll just keep my wish for dance placements
Because I really don't care who wins.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Ver/Van Geffen are all over the place and seem to be skating two different dances.
He wins Andrey's "the most puzzling name" award.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

There was nothing smooth about this skate.

 

[skatingguy]

Chelsea Verhaegh/Sherim van Geffen
Coach: Maksym Nikitn, Oleksandra Nazarova
Music: Smooth, Livin’ la Vida loca

Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 2
Sequential Twizzles W:3 M:3 - slight loss of synchronization, and Chelsea spun the 2nd twizzle
Midline Step Sequence W:2 M:1
Choreo Rhythm Sequence
Rotational Lift 4

Good speed going into the elements, but slowed down while completing the more difficult steps, and twizzles. Energy was good, and their elements had some unique movements.

55.42 = 3rd Place

 

[PRlady]

Nothing like trying to get through Friday afternoon traffic on the highway to Jerusalem in time for the latter groups. (Waze is sending us all around clogs and I can report that Israeli suburbs are just as sterile as northern Virginia.)

Thanks to all for PBP.

 

[Citlali]

What a bad camera angle for the Choreo sequence, not that I particularly want to watch the cringy sequences... but if I HAVE to, at least I want a good angle

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

it's just the 7th couple, and I'm already bored to tears.
Larson/Kapran are doing something totally random with weird facial expressions. The only noticeable element was "the worm", and even then, Browns they ain't.

 

[my little pony]

I feel like I need more teased hair from everyone
at some point in the 90s we stopped teasing it in the day time but still made it pretty big for a club

 

[Wyliefan]

I feel like I need more teased hair from everyone
at some point in the 90s we stopped teasing it in the day time but still made it pretty big for a club

Heck, we made it pretty big for high school.

 

[skatingguy]

Zoe Larson/Andrii Kapran
Coach: Marina Zueva
Music: Gonna Make You Sweat, Sing Hallelujah

Midline Step Sequence W:1 M:1
Sequential Twizzles W:1 M:3 (W:1 M:2 after review)
Pattern Dance Type Step Sequence 1
Choreo Rhythm Sequence
Rotational Lift 4

Started with some good speed, but noticeably slowed down in the twizzles. Performance, and choreography was pretty generic, and they struggled with more difficult dance holds in those rare instances where they used them.

Q 59.24 = 2nd Place

 

[Citlali]

Zoe reminds me of early years Lilah

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

As someone who was alive during the 90ies, I see this competition as cultural appropriation and mockery.

 

[delayedaxel]

Lol, figure skating becomes more and more gymnastics-acrobatic style: The men are doing back saltos, some women are doing wheels on the ice and now he is doing pushups on the ice

 

[tony]

Lol, figure skating becomes more and more gymnastics-acrobatic style: The men are doing back saltos, some women are doing wheels on the ice and now he is doing pushups on the ice

that was the worm. Not a push up

 

[her grace]

Mini-Grace perked up and said, “I love everybody dance now!!!” They’ve got one Gen Alpha fan

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Is it too much to have to have at least one team recreate slam dancing in a mosh pit?

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

Zoe reminds me of early years Lilah

And he reminds me of early years Guy Fieri.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I don't understand. Why were Larson/Kapran allowed to reskate?

 

[terisa]

Now, Kaplan reminds me of Novikov on ice... it's the way he carries himself....

 

[swissskate]

Lol back to back Everybody Dance now

 

[tony]

Somewhere, probably in row 5 or 6, Rettstatt is envisioning how he can bring back a set pattern to Everybody Dance Now, thinking about which team to pull the required steps from.

 

[Andrey aka Pushkin]

I suggest making "Everybody Dance Now" the rhythm for next year's RD.