2025-26 Program Music and Choreographers

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Oona Brown/Gage Brown (USA)
FD: The Godfather
Choreographer: Romain Haguenauer and Sam Chouinard (thanks to @litenkyckling for help with the ID!)

Oona & Gage Brown on Instagram: "“You can do anything, but never go against the family.” We are very excited to announce that we will be skating to music from “The Godfather” for our FD this upcoming season! We cannot wait to get the year started😏

75 likes, 6 comments - thebrownsofficial_ on May 16, 2025: "“You can do anything, but never go against the family.” We are very excited to announce that we will be skating to music from “The Godfather” for our FD this upcoming season! We cannot wait to get the year started😏 #TheBrowns...

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I’m here for it.

 

[Wyliefan]

Hana Maria Aboian/Daniil Veselukhin (USA)
RD: "Vogue" by Madonna
Choreographers: Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov (presumably) with Dimitry Chaplin

Hana Maria Aboian & Daniil Veselukhin on Instagram: "Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. - Madonna Rhythm dance 2025 - “Vogue” 📸💎✨"

14 likes, 2 comments - team_hana.daniil on May 16, 2025: "Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. - Madonna Rhythm dance 2025 - “Vogue” 📸💎✨".

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[coralline]

Hana Maria Aboian/Daniil Veselukhin (USA)
RD: "Vogue" by Madonna
Choreographers: Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov (presumably)

Hana Maria Aboian & Daniil Veselukhin on Instagram: "Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. - Madonna Rhythm dance 2025 - “Vogue” 📸💎✨"

14 likes, 2 comments - team_hana.daniil on May 16, 2025: "Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. - Madonna Rhythm dance 2025 - “Vogue” 📸💎✨".

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I believe they´ve posted before that both of their programs are choreographed also by Dmitry Chaplin from DWTS.

 

[Wyliefan]

You're right. I had posted that in the U.S. Dance thread a while ago. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[Braulio]

Hana Maria Aboian/Daniil Veselukhin (USA)
RD: "Vogue" by Madonna
Choreographers: Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov (presumably) with Dimitry Chaplin

Hana Maria Aboian & Daniil Veselukhin on Instagram: "Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. - Madonna Rhythm dance 2025 - “Vogue” 📸💎✨"

14 likes, 2 comments - team_hana.daniil on May 16, 2025: "Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it. - Madonna Rhythm dance 2025 - “Vogue” 📸💎✨".

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I fear this is the first of like thousand Vogue programs we are going to have next season

or maybe if skaters find just on time that someone else have chosen then they will re-think their rhythm dance music

I don't want to get a compulsory in disguise

 

[Aceon6]

I fear this is the first of like thousand Vogue programs

And not much time has passed since Fear and Gibson’s version. If teams think they can interpret better than that, bless their hearts.

 

[Wyliefan]

When the dancers are stuck having to pick a song from one particular decade, it's hardly fair to start ruling out songs just because other teams have already used them. They're already limited as it is.

 

[Wyliefan]

Rena Uezono (JPN)
FS: Romeo and Juliet (Nino Rota version)
Choreographer: Misha Ge

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[Ananas Astra]

When the dancers are stuck having to pick a song from one particular decade, it's hardly fair to start ruling out songs just because other teams have already used them. They're already limited as it is.

This is why I want a "Eurovision" theme for the ice dancers.

 

[peibeck]

I’m here for it.

I thought you were just crying about overused music? I'd consider the "Godfather" soundtrack (especially "Speak Softly Love") to be warhorse territory.

 

[litenkyckling]

I thought you were just crying about overused music? I'd consider the "Godfather" soundtrack (especially "Speak Softly Love") to be warhorse territory.

arguably, the Godfather is incredibly underused in ice dance. I do think that what is considered a warhorse in ice dance can be quite different to that of singles and pairs.

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

I thought you were just crying about overused music? I'd consider the "Godfather" soundtrack (especially "Speak Softly Love") to be warhorse territory.

Do you? The godfather’s not something we hear every year no matter what competition it is.

However, I do come up with some songs I would love for skaters to skate to, so I need to go revisit that thread

 

[Theatregirl1122]

When was the last time we had Godfather for a top skater?

 

[PRlady]

When was the last time we had Godfather for a top skater?

All I can think of is Plushenko but there must have been some since then!

 

[NinjaTurtles]

Faiella/Scali?

 

[Wyliefan]

The Skating Music Wiki has a list:

The Godfather

The Godfather is an American crime drama film with a music score composed by Nino Rota. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_(soundtrack)

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[kwanfan1818]

They left out my favorite Godfather program: Paradis/Ouellette's 2013-14 Free Skate.

They had just edged out Paul/Islam at 2016 Canadian Nationals and went to their first and only Worlds that year. They were in contention for the third Canadian spot until Virtue/Moir announced their comeback, and they split later that year.

 

[jägerbomb]

How quickly we forget Ekaterina Ryabova's enduringly iconic Godfather program from 2020...

 

[zigzig]

How quickly we forget Ekaterina Ryabova's enduringly iconic Godfather program from 2020...

And baby Vincent Zhou from 2016

 

[honey]

I think The Godfather is great skating music. It’s been used, but not enough that I’d consider it a war horse. I’m surprised it isn’t used more often tbh.

Was actually watching Candeloro from 94 just the other day and was thinking to myself that the music was fantastic and the cut he used built nicely. Say what you will about his skating, but that was a very effective program and I think the music helped a ton.

 

[Sasha'sSpins]

When was the last time we had Godfather for a top skater?

Frankly the only 'Godfather' programs that I can remember were by Phillipe Candeloro and his brilliant take on that theme in both of his programs way back in the 90s'! I'm sure that there have been a few by others since, but I can't think of any.

 

[Andora]

Skaters should be using more Nino Rota in general, save the drippy and inferior R&J. (Stick with either classic for that) So I'm definitely here for any Godfather programs. Faella & Scali had a truly moving program, though they had a different story to their program.

And not much time has passed since Fear and Gibson’s version. If teams think they can interpret better than that, bless their hearts.

Yeah, I mean, imagine what a team with good skating skills in both partners could achieve?

I kid, I just don't think F&G had the ultimate interpretation outside of the costumes.

They left out my favorite Godfather program: Paradis/Ouellette's 2013-14 Free Skate.

They had just edged out Paul/Islam at 2016 Canadian Nationals and went to their first and only Worlds that year. They were in contention for the third Canadian spot until Virtue/Moir announced their comeback, and they split later that year.

Yes, returning champions ruined their dreams, and not their inferior skating. You somehow forgot to mention P&O did not make the free skate at those worlds. Not even close. They should NOT have edged our P&I that year, and they also proceeded broke up as a couple. Some skaters just come to a natural end to their career, even ones we think are lovely/enjoy watching.

 

[kwanfan1818]

There’s a difference between having a chance and getting beaten by all of the teams in contention for the last Olympic spot because of your so-called “inferior skating”, and knowing that it’s tilting at windmills to continue, unless you have the over $100K to spend on the chance that someone with a lock is injured.

 

[YukiNieve]

Mao SHIMADA (Japan)
FS Miracle (Yoshiki)
Choreographed by Marie-France Dubreuil

Source: Mainichi Newspaper

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Sena Miyake (Japan)
SP In the Garden of Souls (VAS)
Choreographed by Misha Ge
FS Titanic

Source: Asahi Newspaper

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[YukiNieve]

Taira Shinohara
SP Marry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Ryuichi Sakamoto)

Source: All Year Open

 

[On My Own]

Choreographed by Marie-France Dubreuil

Why would you send children to that hag.