The Dance Hall 12: Boston Tea Dance Party

[Bigbird]

Its too early in the season to care ot be vaguely interested TBH. Time will do its thing.

 

[Spikefan]

The Taschlers are with Scali right now, very excited to see what they come up with.

 

[her grace]

I think it's fair to say the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I have not been impressed with the choreography of Papadakis or Cizeron this quad.

I haven’t found Cizeron’s choreography particularly memorable. And I’m not sure I knew that Papadakis had choreographed for current teams?

Of the new choreographers, I’m quite impressed with Jean-Luc Baker. His choreo for Green/Parsons and for Harris/Chan’s FD was impressive, and I look forward to seeing more of his work. And Cathy Reed has done some excellent original work for Japan’s young teams.

 

[Orm Irian]

And I’m not sure I knew that Papadakis had choreographed for current teams?

IIRC she's only done choreography for women's singles skaters - Lorine Schild is one.

 

[Rhumba d’Amour]

I haven’t found Cizeron’s choreography particularly memorable. And I’m not sure I knew that Papadakis had choreographed for current teams?

Of the new choreographers, I’m quite impressed with Jean-Luc Baker. His choreo for Green/Parsons and for Harris/Chan’s FD was impressive, and I look forward to seeing more of his work. And Cathy Reed has done some excellent original work for Japan’s young teams.

Agreed that Baker’s and Reed’s work has been outstanding, and I’ve been impressed with the work Cizeron has done for Shun Sato. Of course, Sato deserves a lot of the credit as well—working with Cizeron has really seemed to make him a better skater.

 

[Belsornia]

And it turned out to be not Canada, not the UK, not Ireland and not Italy! Sabatini-Speciale/Kaye will be representing South Africa.

They switched to the UK.

 

[kwanfan1818]

He's looking for a new partner. There are certainly plenty of options available, both in Europe & in North America.

I just noticed following the link to Shteyngart link on Ice Partner Search that Kirill Aksenov is listed among Newest Skaters; the bio says last updated on June 14, but I don't know if a bio update automatically tracks to "Newest Skaters," (ETA: There's a separate Most Recently Updated list) or if he tried through his networks and coaches before listing/re-activating, if something promising fell through, etc. (The split was announced at the beginning of March.)
https://icepartnersearch.com/showbio.php?i=7879

For anyone other than an SVK partnership, they'd be sitting out until November, the date of his last international competition with Simova. They were training in Italy, so SVK residency for a year to qualify him as the resident skater for an SVK team with another non SVK citizen sounds unlikely.

 

[Karen-W]

I just noticed following the link to Shteyngart link on Ice Partner Search that Kirill Aksenov is listed among Newest Skaters; the bio says last updated on June 14, but I don't know if a bio update automatically tracks to "Newest Skaters," or if he tried through his networks and coaches before listing/re-activating, if something promising fell through, etc. (The split was announced at the beginning of March.)
https://icepartnersearch.com/showbio.php?i=7879

For anyone other than an SVK partnership, they'd be sitting out until November, the date of his last international competition with Simova. They were training in Italy, so SVK residency for a year to qualify him as the resident skater for an SVK team with another non SVK citizen sounds unlikely.

Well, sitting out until November probably wouldn't be a deal-breaker since any new partnership certainly wouldn't be aiming for the 2026 Olympics.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Not unless the newest insta-passport AZE team earns a spot against all odds in Faux Nebelhorn, and he and a new partner get the actual Olympic spot with their insta-passports..

 

[tony]

May the new season programs be as spectacularly fabulous and cringe as this ?:

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[Kateri]

May the new season programs be as spectacularly fabulous and cringe as this ?:

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Guillaume Cizeron is coming back to bring us the ur-Macarena, wrenched from the depths of his soul. The audience will jerk and twitch to the party voids, muscles spasming in artistic tribute, as tears and blood pour from all orifices.

 

[Wyliefan]

Lucy Hancock and Aiden Dotzert are a new team for Canada.

KW Ice Dance on Instagram: "We are so thrilled to announce a new & exciting partnership for the 2025/2026 season, Lucy Hancock & Aiden Dotzert. ?? Leave them some ? below! #icedance #icedancepartnership #icedanceteam #canadianicedancers #hancockdo

kwicedance_ on June 27, 2025: "We are so thrilled to announce a new & exciting partnership for the 2025/2026 season, Lucy Hancock & Aiden Dotzert. ?? Leave them some ? below! #icedance #icedancepartnership #icedanceteam #canadianicedancers #hancockdotzert #kwsc #kwscproud #kwicedance #newteam".

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[jägerbomb]

May the new season programs be as spectacularly fabulous and cringe as this ?:

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Scott Hamilton doing a half-Macarena in his chair....happy Pride, folks. ???

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Paul Poirier has this currently uploaded in his story. Here is the link so you don’t have to go when it expires.

How figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history​

How figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history

A look at how figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history, featuring interviews with Paul Poirier and Kaitlyn Weaver.

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A look at how figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history, featuring interviews with Paul Poirier and Kaitlyn Weaver.
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When Paul Poirier began competing on the senior international ice dance scene more than 15 years ago, there were no athletes who openly identified as 2SLGBTQI+ actively competing in figure skating.

As Poirier heads towards his fourth Olympic Games, he is among some of the biggest stars in the sport who have chosen to no longer hide a part of themselves while they compete for Olympic medals.

“In the space of visibility and representation, there’s been a lot of progress and change in that time,” Poirier recently reflected in an interview with Olympic.ca.

Since coming out in 2021, ”It’s changed my mentality day to day in terms of how I bring myself to the rink,” he said. “It might have been self imposed, but there was a pressure to maintain a level of professionalism where I show up and I skate and this is my job and the rest of myself doesn’t really matter in the context of my work.

I probably posted too much, but you can read the rest of the article at the link above. My husband has been to that many Olympics?

 

[kwanfan1818]

Not yet: he’s been to three: 2010 with Crone and 2018 and 2022 with Gilles.

 

[Former Lurve Goddess]

Paul Poirier has this currently uploaded in his story. Here is the link so you don’t have to go when it expires.

How figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history​

How figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history

A look at how figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history, featuring interviews with Paul Poirier and Kaitlyn Weaver.

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A look at how figure skating is developing beyond its heteronormative history, featuring interviews with Paul Poirier and Kaitlyn Weaver.
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Interesting that Weaver says in the article that "the move to decade themes was in the spirit of opening gender roles in ice dance, encouraging more individual movement" - personally I'd love to see RDs based on some of the more traditional rhythms that don't confirm to rigid gender roles.

 

[Kateri]

Interesting that Weaver says in the article that "the move to decade themes was in the spirit of opening gender roles in ice dance, encouraging more individual movement" - personally I'd love to see RDs based on some of the more traditional rhythms that don't confirm to rigid gender roles.

Yes, a laudable aim, but it's such a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water. As if creative ice dancers aren't capable of subverting the trad rhythms' gender roles, if they want to! (And as if the vast majority aren't out there still conforming as hard as they can to gender roles, while skating to disco or whatever.)

 

[Rukia]

if they really want to subvert traditional gender roles they'd give a required waltz pattern but make both team members do a pattern as lead and make them make it a cohesive and good program

 

[litenkyckling]

if they really want to subvert traditional gender roles they'd give a required waltz pattern but make both team members do a pattern as lead and make them make it a cohesive and good program

this is the thing - they've managed to do it in juniors so why not make the seniors just do that if that's the problem? If fear she was just making an excuse for terrible decision making by the committee - the clear aim has always been to "go viral".

 

[her grace]

Interesting that Weaver says in the article that "the move to decade themes was in the spirit of opening gender roles in ice dance, encouraging more individual movement" - personally I'd love to see RDs based on some of the more traditional rhythms that don't confirm to rigid gender roles.

Yankee Polka, please.

Many of the traditional rhythms lend themselves to non-romantic interpretations and sibling teams have done them that way for years. We can have both traditional patterns and innovative expression.

 

[Wyliefan]

Someone help me ID this FD music for Abo/Ves, would you please? Shazam's not getting it.

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[tony]

Someone help me ID this FD music for Abo/Ves, would you please? Shazam's not getting it.

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[Wyliefan]

Thanks very much!

 

[Nmsis]

Guillaume Cizeron is coming back to bring us the ur-Macarena, wrenched from the depths of his soul.

He's not limited to the Macarena.
In the 80s french tvs were happy to provide summer dances and rythms, from the Gipsy Kings to the Lambada.
They followed up in the 90s
So he can Alane. He can Yakalelo, choreographed by Mia Frye who did the Macarena dance as well (she's in all 3 videoclips).
He can Soca Dance, a sister dance to the Lambada (videoclips are kind of following each other)
He can Tic Tic Tac
He can Dam Dam Deo
He can Pata Pata
He has choices. However, I doubt he'll go for this Club Med's dance vibe and will prefer a clubbing vibe.