Essential Ice Dance

[chapis]

I've been highly critical of this team for many years for a variety of reasons but I do agree that they brought a rawness to ice dance that was amazing. That lift at the end of Missing was spine-tingling.

Excuse my ignorance, but could someone tell me where the step sequences are in this program? I've been rewatching the program for almost an hour because I love it and suddenly I wanted to look for the step seq and I can not find them.

 

[gk_891]

Excuse my ignorance, but could someone tell me where the step sequences are in this program? I've been rewatching the program for almost an hour because I love it and suddenly I wanted to look for the step seq and I can not find them.

I believe step sequences as you're referring to became a requirement in ice dance years after D&D skated Missing.

Also, Missing wasn't known for its content but rather for its raw power and emotional resonance.

 

[chapis]

I believe step sequences as you're referring to became a requirement in ice dance years after D&D skated Missing.

Also, Missing wasn't known for its content but rather for its raw power and emotional resonance.

oh thanks, I supposed it but I was not sure, I thought maybe I just could not find it, there is a certain ice dancer nowadays in whom is very difficult for me to recognize the steps and apparently that person is doing it very well, I thought it was a similar situation. Anyway, if it is difficult to score them now, I can not imagine the nightmare that was the Judgment in those years

 

[sap5]

oh thanks, I supposed it but I was not sure, I thought maybe I just could not find it, there is a certain ice dancer nowadays in whom is very difficult for me to recognize the steps and apparently that person is doing it very well, I thought it was a similar situation. Anyway, if it is difficult to score them now, I can not imagine the nightmare that was the Judgment in those years

Don't both ice dancers in a team do the step sequences at the same time? Are you able to recognize the steps of this ice dancer's partner?

 

[chapis]

Don't both ice dancers in a team do the step sequences at the same time? Are you able to recognize the steps of this ice dancer's partner?

Sorry, I did not express well, in this ice dancer that I mentioned, I know when is doing the step seq, but I cant recognize exactly what step is doing, I mean counter, brackets, etc. In the Missing program is the whole step seq I was looking for.
In my vacations I tried learn all the turns and I watched several teams but when I tried identify them in this person it took a long time and finally I gave up with some turns.

 

[VGThuy]

Sorry, I did not express well, in this ice dancer that I mentioned, I know when is doing the step seq, but I cant recognize exactly what step is doing, I mean counter, brackets, etc. In the Missing program is the whole step seq I was looking for.
In my vacations I tried learn all the turns and I watched several teams but when I tried identify them in this person it took a long time and finally I gave up with some turns.

Hmm, which ice dancer is that?

 

[briancoogaert]

One program I loved even though it was not my style :
Khokhlova and Novitski 2007-2008 Bald Mountain :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHm3n_W9B7s

 

[Vash01]

Grishchuk-Platov: Adagio (ex)
They look very young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVpYQZCuLM

 

[gk_891]

I love them totally....I feel that Schoenfelder is one of the best male leads in ice dance in the world.

Come to think of it, Schoenfelder was an exceptional ice dancer. France has produced some very fine male ice dancers over the years like Peizerat, Schoenfelder, and now Cizeron. Bourzat also was quite good too.

 

[gk_891]

Sorry if this one was mentioned already but I really love Punsalan & Swallow's free dance from 1998. Very classy all the way around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD1m0zfXDY

 

[Vash01]

I was not their fan but I liked this performance by Roca and Sur, with SOI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Glsp6nDwU

Here is Gorsha with his previous partner Svetlana Liapina (USSR) in 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSuAwkER8ak

I have always wondered what happened to her.

 

[nuge]

Grishchuk-Platov: Adagio (ex)
They look very young.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZVpYQZCuLM

Oh what could P/C do with this?

 

[gk_891]

Does anyone know why this thread was moved to Off the Beaten Track?

ETA - never mind, it's back in The Trash Can

 

[Vash01]

Does anyone know why this thread was moved to Off the Beaten Track?

ETA - never mind, it's back in The Trash Can

Same thing happened to the pairs SP thread . Must be a glitch.

 

[gk_891]

Not sure if I'd call this essential ice dance but it was interesting to see 3 Olympic ice dance champions on the ice at the same time (B&B, K&P, and G&P).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcO4p1QtdgU

 

[VGThuy]

Bump because @Judy wanted a thread where we post our fave ice dance performances and provide links to them. Now that we're one season later from when this thread started, I wonder if people will be adding any of this season's programs to it.

 

[gk_891]

I might add all of the 3 medalists from the 2018 Olympics. All 3 performances can be found here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LT_fuMsyiY

 

[VGThuy]

Resurrecting this thread to add:

Guignard/Fabbri's 2018-19 FD:

https://youtu.be/J4BRz8qeg8Y

 

[Yuri]

Thanks for bumping up this wonderful thread of amazing ice dancing routines, I wasn't aware it existed! Happy to see so much discussion on Grishuk & Platov and Torvill & Dean, my two all-time favorite couples, and so many older routines of their great rivals of the day to go back and watch.

Adding another G/P clip circa 2006, not from their initial Dancing On Ice Russia reunion, but also very cool because they perform outside in front of the famous ГУМ department store in the Moscow Kremlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTmovdex_g

It does make one wonder what could have been if they had skated together professionally for a decade or more after Nagano...

I'm not sure if the Japanese HD version of G/P's Rock Around The Clock Olympics free dance was posted earlier, but it's clarity is amazing--plus it avoids Tracy Wilson's obnoxious commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POZQuju705c&t=3s

Plus an HD version of G/P's 1994 Lillehammer exhibition programs that weren't shown in the USA on CBS after their upset of T/D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHzhkcRtKUU

 

[VGThuy]

I end up watching G/P’s 1994 Euros version of their FD the most because they were truly on Fire there. So fast, crisp, and on point. I also thought Oksana’s red dress not only matched with Platov’s outfit more but it accentuated all that twirling in the choreography giving it more impact.

 

[Colonel Green]

Another update from this 3/4-completed Olympic cycle, Gilles & Poirier's "Vincent":

 

[Yuri]

I definitely agree that Oksana's original red dress better fit with the 1950's rock & roll and jitterbug theme, and that she & Evgeny absolutely nailed their performance at Europeans even better than at the Olympics. Despite Oksana being quite sick during the 1994 European Championships. As this ice dancing championship may be the most exciting ever, including the ordinals flip between Usova & Zhulin and Torvill & Dean after Grishuk & Platov skated that baffled the crowd and even the announcers, I am posting all three free dances as well as the amazing medal ceremony from Eurosport coverage.

Usova/Zhulin FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eiNYV243Z0
Torvill/Dean FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm_ar2zfkic
Grishuk/Platov FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLkfJquQrag
Medal Ceremony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSkFL0ikLk

Of course, T/D's Europeans FD is the version that Tracy Wilson stated they changed 80% of the content three weeks before the Lillehammer Olympics. In many ways I prefer their Europeans version without all of the recycled tricks--and it did beat U/Z in the FD by a 5-4 split--because it was skated more crisply and cleanly in my view, although it didn't have the highlights that grabbed the crowd and was a choreographic disappointment. Still, it seems more polished to me than the rush job at Lillehammer where I felt like T/D read the writing on the wall and went for the crowd instead of the judges--and in the end, it worked for their career.

Torvill/Dean Olympics FD (HD): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0H03HM2L8

In the end, everyone's look was different at Europeans: vastly different costumes for G/P and U/Z, plus Jayne skated with her long hair in a pony tail before cutting it to 1984 Bolero-style for the Olympics.