Junior Ice Dance RD & FD

[Sylvia]

Livestream (English with Ted Barton & Kaitlyn Weaver): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9bykcq
Livestream (French): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9byk5e

Rhythm Dance starting order (Wednesday 1:15 pm ET start time) - 10 of the 11 NextGen teams qualified for this event:

1 Nelly-Anne Chao / Thierry Caron QC
2 Sophia Gover / Billy Wilson-French ON https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00118012.htm
3 Olympia Kalaganis / Émile Deveau QC
4 Anjou Karino / Andrew Song AB/NT/NU
5 Rachel Martins / Juel Kowalczyk ON https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00120934.htm

6 Audra Gans / Gabriel Liu QC (NextGen)
7 Charlie Anderson / Cayden Dawson ON
8 Caroline Kravets / Aiden Dotzert ON
9 Victoria Carandiuc / Andrei Carandiuc QC https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00117678.htm
10 Laurence Brière / Julien Lévesque QC https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00120705.htm

11 Summer Homick / Nicholas Buelow ON https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00120694.htm
12 Auréa Cinçon-Debout / Earl Jesse Celestino QC https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00117813.htm
13 Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys ON https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00114026.htm
14 Sandrine Gauthier / Quentin Thieren QC https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00111091.htm
15 Chloe Nguyen / Brendan Giang BC/YK https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00117688.htm

 

[Wyliefan]

The English stream is live and Ted is chatting with Kaitlyn Weaver.

 

[Alilou]

Thant was fun! I like GoverWilson-French - they have a good presence on the ice.

 

[Sylvia]

Results are being updated after each team here: https://skatecanada.ca/results/25CDNSJuniorDanceCR.pdf

RD interim protocols added here: https://skatecanada.ca/results/25CDNSJuniorDanceRD1DRO.pdf

 

[Wyliefan]

Not bad from Kalaganis/Deveau -- they have good energy and decent presentation.

ETA: Kaitlyn tries to tease out some of Ted's knowledge of disco. Ted apparently has none.

 

[Alilou]

KalDeveau a noticeable improvement in smoothness and speed over GoverWil-French. Enjoyed a lot.

 

[Alilou]

So Kaitlin disagrees with me about flow I bow to her superior knowledge

 

[Wyliefan]

Anjou's headband and flip are really cute, but they look more early-to-mid-'60s than disco-era.

 

[Skate Talker]

Rachel Martins / Juel Kowalczyk
Disco dance moves were quite good - some of the ice dance elements were a bit shaky.

 

[Wyliefan]

I believe Gans/Liu are the first team Kaitlyn's had anything critical to say about. I wonder if someone told her during the break to tone down the gushing!

Oh my goodness, Charlie Anderson's a real live disco ball. Which is ironic because they're one of the very few teams so far who haven't skated to disco.

 

[Sally1214]

Back in time for the last 2 flights. Missed Gans/Liu but am now settled with my cup of green tea. Let's dance ...

 

[Sally1214]

Awww ...... if Stevie singing Superstition doesn't get you dancing in your chair, I don't know what will. I loved Charlie and Cayden's funky routine. And, I loved her dress. I know it had a LOT going on with the one-sleeve, belt, etc ... but I LIKED it. Well done.

 

[Wyliefan]

Kravets/Dotzert -- first half really strong and good levels; second half a little weaker. They looked overjoyed to survive their twizzles. Overall they make a really nice impression, and the TES looks good, at least for the moment.

 

[Sylvia]

I've only been listening so far - how many Bee Gees programs have we had??

 

[Wyliefan]

Caranducs a little cautious, but smooth and mature. Whoops, he almost topples over on his ending pose.

Someone ought to to stick Shawn Rettstatt in a room and blast disco at him until he rethinks some things.

 

[Sally1214]

I don't think Victoria had any idea how much Andrei was STRUGGLING on the closing pose ... LOL. Her twizzles were kind of a mess but there were some really nice moves in that RD as well.

 

[Alilou]

I've only been listening so far - how many Bee Gees programs have we had??

Way too many! In all those decades available to choose from you'd thing disco is the only dance style/music that happened.

 

[Sally1214]

I've only been listening so far - how many Bee Gees programs have we had??

A few so far. It works for those of us (me) who say "Gotta love it." For others, maybe not so much.

Stevie's "Superstition" had me dancing by far the most so far though.

 

[Sally1214]

A Beatles medley always gets me going. Thank you, Laurence and Julien. Cute routine.

 

[Alilou]

Yay Beatles! Yay anything but disco!

ETA to fix the spelling of Beatles!

 

[Wyliefan]

Yay Beetles! Yay anything but disco!

I'm not even a Beatles fan and I was happy to hear them.

Nice job by Briere/Levesque, and they lead going into the final group.

 

[skateboy]

I've only been listening so far - how many Bee Gees programs have we had??

72?

 

[Sally1214]

My goodness, some of these junior dancers look like babies to me. Soooooo young. I was there once upon a time. I seem to recall it was really fun.

 

[Wyliefan]

Kind of rooting for Gauthier/Thieren here, because I felt like they wuzrobbed at Challenge.

 

[Alilou]

So I'm sitting here thinking s'thing like electric-era Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Rolling Stones. Are they all terrified to do s'thing a little bit edgy?! (It's a rhetorical question )

 

[Wyliefan]

Uh-oh, music issue for Summer and Nick.

 

[Sally1214]

That's got to be nerve-wracking ...

 

[skateboy]

Wow, Buelow is really good. His steps in the Paso Doble were REALLY clean.

 

[Sally1214]

Summer and Nicholas were super entertaining! Two thumbs up from me.

 

[Wyliefan]

Great job! Twizzles a bit rough, but that seems to be par for the course today, and the rest of the elements looked very nice. I'm glad the music issue didn't throw them off. If I'm going to nitpick, Summer's arm movements could be sharper, and she needs to work on her expression in the "Hopelessly Devoted" part -- she's trying to look wistful but ends up looking bored. Still, what a long way she's come in dance in just a short time. Into the lead -- good for them.