2023–24 Canadian Ice Dance: News and Updates

[Wyliefan]

Brief clip of Bashynska/Beaumont skating to "If You Go Away" by Dusty Springfield at the Scarboro show today. No word on whether it's a new FD or an exhibition program. But they use the same pose they used to open the R&J program.

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[Sylvia]

Re-posting IDC's Emmy Bronsard article here from the "Solo Ice Dance is now an official ISU discipline" thread in GSD:

Emmy Bronsard, Ice Dancer – Ice-dance.com

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Excerpts:

Bronsard teamed up with Jacob Richmond in 2022 and competed at two international events and the 2023 and 2024 Canadian Championships on the senior level. The partnership ended after their second Nationals.
Three months later with help from a lot of friends, Emmy Bronsard was second at the Inaugural North American International Solo Dance event in Reston, Virginia.
The silver medalist shared the genesis of her preparation.
After Jacob and I split, I knew I did not want to stop skating, and that I did not want to wait around for a partner without having a purpose or a “short-term goal”.
“One of my teammates, as well as my coaches, spoke about an international solo ice dance competition, recognized by ISU, taking place in the Washington DC area in mid April. After a couple of days, I thought why not and decided to browse for music to see if I would potentially like to perform alone in a competition again.”

“I sent official emails to my federation, Patinage Quebec and Patinage Canada, saying I was still looking for a partner, but that in the meantime I would try out solo ice dancing. I got good feedback, so I registered and started training more intensively and began working on my solo ice dance programs on March 20.” [...]
“The whole team helped me prepare for this competition: from Romain Haguenauer helping me read the rules, Sam Chouinard – Kaitlin Hawayek – Ginette Cournoyer – Marie-France Dubreuil helping me get more comfortable moving alone on the ice (and off ice) and to Josée Piché accompanying me to the competition. I.AM was with me all along the way.”

 

[Yyzskater]

Brief clip of Bashynska/Beaumont skating to "If You Go Away" by Dusty Springfield at the Scarboro show today. No word on whether it's a new FD or an exhibition program. But they use the same pose they used to open the R&J program.

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[Yyzskater]

Any other video from their show? Last year, I think they streamed it via Facebook Live but it doesn't seem they did it this year.

 

[Wyliefan]

No, I don't think they did. But I'll post more videos if I can find any.

 

[Wyliefan]

Full video of Bashynska/Beaumont: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7aoCPWtoIF/?igsh=ZmtsOG1jb21yeGht

 

[tony]

Lanaghan and Razgulajevs are done per her Instagram post. Future plans aren’t mentioned.

Molly Beth Lanaghan on Instagram: "Thank you🤍 After 7 seasons together Dmitre and I have decided to end our partnership. We’re so thankful to all of our friends, family, team mates & fans from around the world for the immense amount of love and sup

207 likes, 13 comments - mollylanaghanx on May 27, 2024: "Thank you🤍 After 7 seasons together Dmitre and I have decided to end our partnership. We’re so thankful to all of our friends, fam...".

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[Wyliefan]

I'm sorry to hear that. They were a nice team.

 

[Yyzskater]

Lanaghan and Razgulajevs are done per her Instagram post. Future plans aren’t mentioned.

Molly Beth Lanaghan on Instagram: "Thank you🤍 After 7 seasons together Dmitre and I have decided to end our partnership. We’re so thankful to all of our friends, family, team mates & fans from around the world for the immense amount of love and sup

207 likes, 13 comments - mollylanaghanx on May 27, 2024: "Thank you🤍 After 7 seasons together Dmitre and I have decided to end our partnership. We’re so thankful to all of our friends, fam...".

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It doesn't say if either of them are continuing individually but it does come across like they are not.

 

[Colonel Green]

I enjoyed some of their programs a lot. But they were also pretty clearly a team that was unlikely to achieve much more than they already had, at this point.

 

[Dobre]

They had no edges whatsoever, but they grew together as a team and carved out an entertaining niche for themselves. I always appreciate when teams can do that. It's a shame they shan't finish out the quadrennium.

 

[overedge]

They had no edges whatsoever, but they grew together as a team and carved out an entertaining niche for themselves. I always appreciate when teams can do that. It's a shame they shan't finish out the quadrennium.

I agree, but OTOH if they feel that they've gone as far as they can, it makes more sense to cut their future losses and stop now. It costs a lot (for every team) to stay in until the Olympics, and if there's not much chance of getting there, it may not be worth the investment.

 

[Katesk8sgr8s]

Lanaghan and Razgulajevs are done per her Instagram post. Future plans aren’t mentioned.

Molly Beth Lanaghan on Instagram: "Thank you🤍 After 7 seasons together Dmitre and I have decided to end our partnership. We’re so thankful to all of our friends, family, team mates & fans from around the world for the immense amount of love and sup

207 likes, 13 comments - mollylanaghanx on May 27, 2024: "Thank you🤍 After 7 seasons together Dmitre and I have decided to end our partnership. We’re so thankful to all of our friends, fam...".

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I enjoyed their performances very much. They grew on me.

 

[Sylvia]

Brief clip of Bashynska/Beaumont skating to "If You Go Away" by Dusty Springfield at the Scarboro show today. No word on whether it's a new FD or an exhibition program. But they use the same pose they used to open the R&J program.

Gala piece, according to the regular pro photographer at this annual show:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ks26YxTor/
Nadiia shared more photos of their new EX:

Nadiia Bashynska on Instagram: "Had an amazing time performing our exhibition program for this season! Thank you so much @jorenr.photography for these pictures!"

365 likes, 4 comments - nadiia_bashynska on May 30, 2024: "Had an amazing time performing our exhibition program for this season! Thank you so much @jorenr.photography for these pictures!".

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Cross-posting here from the Programs & Choreographers thread - same source:

Sophia Gover/Billy Wilson-French
FD: Burlesque soundtrack

Joren Romaniuk on Instagram: "Sophia and Billy performing their new free program this year- Burlesque 💎 • • #jorenrphotography #icedanceelite #sportsphotography #figureskating #nikon #nikonphotography #nikonz6ii"

40 likes, 2 comments - jorenr.photography on May 28, 2024: "Sophia and Billy performing their new free program this year- Burlesque 💎 • • #jorenrphotography #icedanceelite #sportsphotography...".

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Madison Tong/Michael Boutsan
RD: Fame soundtrack

Joren Romaniuk on Instagram: "Madison and Michael performing their new short program “Fame” at the SFSC Spring Showcase 💎💖 • • #jorenrphotography #icedanceelite #icedance #sportsphotography #figureskating #nikon #nikonphotography #nikonz6ii"

31 likes, 0 comments - jorenr.photography on May 28, 2024: "Madison and Michael performing their new short program “Fame” at the SFSC Spring Showcase 💎💖 • • #jorenrphotography #icedan...".

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Choreographers for all: Carol Lane and team (presumably)

Anna MacKenzie/Wesley Lockwood (new team? level?):

Joren Romaniuk on Instagram: "Anna and Wesley performing their new short program “Things that go bump” ⚫️⚪️ • • #jorenrphotography #icedanceelite #icedance #sportsphotography #nikon #nikonphotography #nikonz6ii"

27 likes, 0 comments - jorenr.photography on May 28, 2024: "Anna and Wesley performing their new short program “Things that go bump” ⚫️⚪️ • • #jorenrphotography #icedanceelite #icedance...".

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ETA: January 2023 Skate Canada Challenge Pre-Novice Ice Dance 2nd & 3rd place:
2 Anna MacKenzie / Juel Kowalczyk ON 14.91 15.35 55.34 85.60 (3) (3) (2)
3 Kadynn Morrison / Wesley Lockwood ON 15.31 15.48 52.12 82.91 (2) (2) (4)

 

[Sylvia]

Lauriault/Le Gac’s benefit event looked very festive! (Kaitlin Hawayek was the DJ):

Marie-Jade & Romain 🇨🇦⛸ on Instagram: "Événement bénéfice Lauriault-Le Gac 2024 #Grateful #corporate #figureskating #iceacademyofmontreal #icedance #skatecanada #patinagequebec #cdesl #patinagelaval #patinagelaurentides #villedelaval"

17 likes, 1 comments - lauriaultlegac on May 31, 2024: "Événement bénéfice Lauriault-Le Gac 2024 #Grateful #corporate #figureskating #iceacademyofmontreal #icedance #skatecanada #patinagequebec...".

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[Wyliefan]

Audra Gans and Gabriel Liu officially confirm their partnership:

Audra<3 on Instagram: "Hello everyone! We’re so excited to announce that Gabriel and I have partnered up for this coming season! We can’t wait to see what this year has in store for us and are so excited to show everyone what we’ve been working on. S

195 likes, 16 comments - audra.gans on June 5, 2024: "Hello everyone! We’re so excited to announce that Gabriel and I have partnered up for this coming season! We can’t wait to see what this...".

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I just realized that Gans/Boutsan and Tong/Liu simply switched partners.

 

[Wyliefan]

Oh, and I just noticed what looks very much like a French flag in their announcement!

 

[almiranara]

Oh, and I just noticed what looks very much like a French flag in their announcement!

I think that was a marker for the French translation, because they tagged Skate Canada and Patinage Quebec in the photo. They're on the list of Quebec's Development Team for 24/25 season as well https://x.com/AnythingGOE/status/1788321330544144772?t=WjAvUMTU_7JZ81N5M7QP3g&s=19

 

[Wyliefan]

OK, that makes sense!