The Dance Hall 12: Boston Tea Dance Party

[Debbie S]

There's a new ice dance team for the US: Vanessa Pham and Anton Spiridonov -Reported by Anything GOES

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The tweet links to an entry list for a summer comp in Quebec. From the list, we can see that Harris/Chan are still a team, I guess they just didn't get a GP, hopefully they can get one if a spot opens up. And Deanna/Max are entered in pairs. Pairs and dance should be great events there.

 

[Belsornia]

If Harris/Chan are planning to compete at the Quebec Summer Champs it rules out most of the reasons why they might not have got the GP spot they should have (split, serious injury, one of them is the mysterious doping case in the ISU powerpoint). And they're listed as representing AUS, so presumably not a country switch either. Which leaves the remaining option: a cock-up. Hopefully they'll pick up the Skate Canada spot which Grimm/Savitskiy are planning to vacate.

 

[Karen-W]

If Harris/Chan are planning to compete at the Quebec Summer Champs it rules out most of the reasons why they might not have got the GP spot they should have (split, serious injury, one of them is the mysterious doping case in the ISU powerpoint). And they're listed as representing AUS, so presumably not a country switch either. Which leaves the remaining option: a cock-up. Hopefully they'll pick up the Skate Canada spot which Grimm/Savitskiy are planning to vacate.

Agreed. The only rationale I can think for leaving them off is that their WS position as #24 somehow placed them behind the JWC medalists on the priority list - which makes zero sense to me since both Tkachenko/Kiliakov and Grimm/Savitskiy rank behind them on the SB and WS lists.

 

[Belsornia]

Following the ISU congress, here's an updated stocktake on the status of last season's junior dance teams, taking account of splits and new partnership announcements as well as the new age eligibility rules. * indicates teams whose years of junior eligibility have changed with the new rules.

Armenia
Kristina Dobroserdova / Alessandro Pellegrini – ageing up

Australia
*Regina Ng / Dominik Mautner – 2 more seasons (junior eligible through JWC 2026)
*Renee Yuen / Oliver Ma – 6 more seasons (junior eligible through JWC 2030)

Austria
Elisabeth Havers / Leo Havers – 3 more seasons (junior eligible through JWC 2027)
Anita Straub / Andreas Straub – 2 more seasons

Belgium
Sofia Beznosikova / Max Leleu – 4 more seasons (junior eligible through JWC 2028)

Brazil
Catharina Guedes Tibau / Cayden Dawson – split (she’s looking for a new partner and has moved to IAM Ontario)

Canada
*Victoria Carandiuc / Andrei Carandiuc – 4 more seasons
*Charlotte Chung / Axel Mackenzie – 2 more seasons
*Aurea Cincon-Debout / Earl Jesse Celestino – 3 more seasons
Jamie Fournier / Everest Zhu – ageing up
Audra Gans / Michael Boutsan – split (both looking for new partners)
Emma Goodstadt / Christian Bennett – split (she’s retired, he’s ageing up and looking for a new partner)
Sophia Gover / Billy Wilson French – 1 more season (junior eligible through JWC 2025)
Alisa Korneva / Kieran MacDonald – ageing up
Caroline Kravets / Jacob Stark – split (she’s looking for a new partner)
Jordyn Lewis / Noah McMillan – split (she’s switched to synchro)
Savanna Martel / William Oddson – split (he’s looking for a new partner)
*Chloe Nguyen / Brendan Giang – 1 more season
Dana Sabatini-Speciale / Nicholas Buelow – split (she’s now skating with Danny Kaye for ???, he’s now skating with Summer Homick)
*Layla Veillon / Alexander Brandys – 2 more seasons

China
Xuantong Li / Xinkang Wang – split (she’s now skating with Grigory Rodin)
*Yufei Lin / Zijian Gao – 1 more season
Tong Liu / Quanshuo Ge – split (he’s rumoured to have a new partner who’s moving up from novices)
Xinyi Yu / Tianyi Liu – 2 more seasons (don’t think they’ve split, but not sure I’ve kept up with all the Chinese ice dance shenanigans)

Cyprus
Angelina Kudryavtseva / Ilia Karankevich – 1 more season – but have suggested they may move up

Czechia
*Lauren Batkova / Jacob Yang – 3 more seasons
Natalie Blaasova / Filip Blaas – 2 more seasons
Andrea Psurna / Jachym Novak – split (both looking for new partners)
*Kristyna Stanclova / Karel Kostron – 4 more seasons
*Klara Vlckova / Tomas Vlcek – 5 more seasons (junior eligible through JWC 2029)
*Eliska Zakova / Filip Mencl – 3 more seasons

Spain
*Sarah Marcilly Vazquez / Jolan Engel – 5 more seasons
Maite Ojeda Lindholst / Hector Gonzalez Elvira – 3 more seasons
Elena Pena / Antonio Pena – split (he’s aging up and now skating with Sophia Bushell)
Athena Roberts / Eric Alis – ageing up

Estonia
Ksenia Sipunova / Miron Korjagin – 3 more seasons

Finland
Enna Kesti / Oskari Liedenpohja – 3 more seasons
*Cilla Laine / Urho Reina – 2 more seasons
Hilda Taylor / Nolen Hickey – ageing up

France
*Eva Bernard / Amedeo Bonetto – 1 more season
Estelle Bouillet / Martin Chardain – split (she’s looking for a new partner, he’s skating with Louise Bordet)
Maissane Chine / Lucas Chataignoux – split (he’s now skating with Lou Koch)
Louise Duprat / Tahory Taddei-Dugue – 4 more seasons
Celina Fradji / Jean-Hans Fourneaux – 1 more season
*Diane Gallix / Elod Egyed-Zsigmond – 5 more seasons
*Lea Hienne / Baptiste Ferrand – 2 more seasons
*Lena Maliqueo-Repoux / Illia Synelnikov – 4 more seasons
*Dania Mouaden / Theo Bigot – 6 more seasons
*Ambre Perrier Gianesini / Samuel Blanc Klaperman – 4 more seasons
Diane Sznajder / Joseph Booth – split (she’s looking for a new partner, he’s taking a break from competitive skating)
Agathe Tournadre / Thomas Gipoulou – 1 more season

United Kingdom
Molly Hairsine / Alessio Surenkov-Gultchev – 1 more season
Ashlie Slatter / Atl Ongay-Perez – 4 more seasons

Georgia
Mariia Alieva / Yehor Barshak – ageing up

Germany
Darya Grimm / Michail Savitskiy – 1 more season – have indicated they will do a split season
*Alexia Kruk / Jan Eisenhaber – 3 more seasons
Mia Lee Mayer / Davide Calderari – split (he’s switched to pairs and is looking for a partner)
Savenna Pache / Korbinian Steinsailer – 1 more season
*Lilia Schubert / Nikita Remeshevskiy – 1 more season

Ireland
Laura Hegarty / Kevin Hegarty – ageing up

Israel
*Elizabeth Tkachenko / Alexei Kiliakov – 2 more seasons – but looks like they are moving up

Italy
*Zoe Bianchi / Pietro Rota – 6 more seasons
Giulia Paolino / Andrea Tuba – ageing up
Vittoria Petracchi / Daniel Basile – 3 more seasons
Alice Pizzorni / Massimiliano Bucciarelli – split (he’s now skating with Laura Finelli)
*Noemi Tali / Noah Lafornara – 2 more seasons
Beatrice Ventura / Stefano Frasca – ageing up

Japan
Sara Kishimoto / Atsuhiko Tamura – 1 more season
*Kaho Yamashita / Yuto Nagata – 2 more seasons

Kazakhstan
Eva Shelaeva / Ivan Solovyev – 4 more seasons

South Korea
Jinny Kim / Namu Lee – split (both looking for new partners)

Mexico
Harlow Stanley / Nikita Sosnenko – split (she’s now skating senior with Seiji Urano, he’s looking for a new partner)

Poland
Sofiia Dovhal / Wiktor Kulesza – 1 more season – likely another split season

South Africa
Felicity Chase / Mikhail Ajam – split (he’s looking for a new partner)

Switzerland
Maelle Ledermann / Antonin Emo – split (she’s looking for a new partner)
Seraina Tscharner / Laurin Wiederkehr – 3 more seasons
Gina Zehnder / Beda Sieber – 1 more season – but likely doing another split season

Turkey
*Irmak Yucel / Danil Pak – 3 more seasons

Ukraine
Iryna Pidgaina / Artem Koval – 2 more seasons
Mariia Pinchuk / Mykyta Pogorielov – ageing up
*Sofiia Rekunova / Denys Fediankin – 6 more seasons

USA
Kristina Bland / Matthew Sperry – split (he’s looking for a new partner, she’s focusing on uni)
Helena Carhart / Volodymyr Horovyi – split (she’s looking for a new partner, he’s retired)
Amy Cui / Kenny Eckert – split (she’s skating senior with Jonathan Rogers, he’s looking for a new partner)
Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr – split (unclear if either/both looking for a new partner)
*Olivia Ilin / Dylan Cain – 6 more seasons
Caroline Mullen / Brendan Mullen – 1 more season
Leah Neset / Artem Markelov – 1 more season – but moving up
Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal – 1 more season
Yahli Pedersen / Jeffrey Chen – split (she’s looking for a new partner, he’s ageing up and strongly rumoured to be skating with Annabelle Morozov)

 

[LoisAGOEs]

Per the Skate Ontario July lineup, Caroline Kravets is now partnered with Aiden Dotzert.

 

[Karen-W]

And those are just the teams that competed on the JGP last season. Italy, Germany, the USA and Canada all had additional teams that didn't make it to the JGP last season who will surely be in the mix. It's shaping up to be another very exciting season!

Can't wait to see how the Peals, Mullens, Fradji/Forneaux, Nguyen/Giang, Tali/Lafornara, Zehnder/Sieber and Pidgaina/Koval (and Kudryatseva/Karankevich if they decide to stay on the JGP another season) step up to push Grimm/Savitskiy. I'd have to handicap those 10 teams as the pre-season JGPF contenders but I also expect Perrier Gianesini/Blanc Klaperman, Mouaden/Bigot, Slatter/Ongay-Perez, Ilin/Cain, Dovhal/Kulesza, Kishimoto/Tamura, and Lin/Gao to be nipping at their heels and any of them could surprise us and sneak into the JGPF.

The depth of ice dance on the junior level really is astonishing!

 

[Wyliefan]

Madelaine Breau (who formerly represented Canada) and Namu Lee (formerly with Jinny Kim) are a new junior dance team for Korea.

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[Wyliefan]

Also, @Belsornia, you can add Madison Tong/Michael Boutsan and Audra Gans/Gabriel Liu, both for Canada, to the list. And Martina Lavazza/Raphael Meunier and Alessia Rocci/Davide Pettigiani for Italy. Terrific job on that list!

 

[Andrea82]

Agreed. The only rationale I can think for leaving them off is that their WS position as #24 somehow placed them behind the JWC medalists on the priority list - which makes zero sense to me since both Tkachenko/Kiliakov and Grimm/Savitskiy rank behind them on the SB and WS lists.

Even allowing for that, on same rules as previous years, they should have got one spot before the likes of Smart/Dieck getting a 2nd spot.

 

[Karen-W]

Even allowing for that, on same rules as previous years, they should have got one spot before the likes of Smart/Dieck getting a 2nd spot.

Or Orihara/Pirinen, Neset/Markelov, etc. There are a lot of teams that got 2nd spots who were only entitled to one.

 

[PRlady]

Or Orihara/Pirinen, Neset/Markelov, etc. There are a lot of teams that got 2nd spots who were only entitled to one.

Those three teams are all high on the entertainment scale. No idea if that impacts selection but wouldn’t be surprised.

 

[Theatregirl1122]

Those three teams are all high on the entertainment scale. No idea if that impacts selection but wouldn’t be surprised.

It might impact why they were picked for second spots, but shouldn't result in them getting picked while teams didn't get their guaranteed spots.

 

[Rhumba d’Amour]

Those three teams are all high on the entertainment scale. No idea if that impacts selection but wouldn’t be surprised.

Exactly
I personally would enjoy seeing Smart/Dieck or—especially—Orihara/Pirinen, more than many other teams that may have somewhat better scores

 

[BlueRidge]

If Harris and Chan have earned a spot, they should get it.

I'd be happy to see them.

 

[Rhumba d’Amour]

If Harris and Chan have earned a spot, they should get it.

I'd be happy to see them.

Oh, I agree! I have seen this team compete live, and enjoy them as well—I did not mean to suggest that they are lacking in any way.

My assumption on seeing that they did not receive an assignment was that they might be splitting/taking a season off/retiring etc.

 

[kwanfan1818]

Agreed. The only rationale I can think for leaving them off is that their WS position as #24 somehow placed them behind the JWC medalists on the priority list - which makes zero sense to me since both Tkachenko/Kiliakov and Grimm/Savitskiy rank behind them on the SB and WS lists.

WS and SB 24 are supposed to be guaranteed one. JWC are eligible, but not guaranteed anything.

Not that the ISU follows or enforces its own rules or anything.

 

[Karen-W]

WS and SB 24 are supposed to be guaranteed one. JWC are eligible, but not guaranteed anything.

Not that the ISU follows or enforces its own rules or anything.

I'm aware of the GP rules. I'm the one who noted, first, over in the GP assignments thread, the Harris/Chan oversight.

 

[BlueRidge]

give Harris & Chan their GP!

if they want it, that is...

 

[kwanfan1818]

I'm aware of the GP rules. I'm the one who noted, first, over in the GP assignments thread, the Harris/Chan oversight.

Which is why I wondered why you suggested there was any rationale within the rules for them to have been superseded by a JWC. I don’t see any rationale within the rules.

 

[Karen-W]

Which is why I wondered why you suggested there was any rationale within the rules for them to have been superseded by a JWC. I don’t see any rationale within the rules.

No, neither do I, but it clearly seems that is the rationale that seems to have been applied across all disciplines. Caldara/Maglio are WS 22 in Pairs with the season-end update and yet they also did not get a GP while Williams/Lewer as JWC bronze medalists DID get a GP.

 

[Karen-W]

nm

 

[Wyliefan]

Yep.

 

[Karen-W]

Did we know about this new team representing Taiwan? Tasha Lai & Mickey Becker-Pos competing at this weekend'sBS Super Series -

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[Karen-W]

Some small justice in the world...

If Harris/Chan are planning to compete at the Quebec Summer Champs it rules out most of the reasons why they might not have got the GP spot they should have (split, serious injury, one of them is the mysterious doping case in the ISU powerpoint). And they're listed as representing AUS, so presumably not a country switch either. Which leaves the remaining option: a cock-up. Hopefully they'll pick up the Skate Canada spot which Grimm/Savitskiy are planning to vacate.

And Grimm/Savitskiy are off the GP assignments list as expected. Harris/Chan replace them at SCI.

https://isu.org/docman-documents-links/isu-files/event-documents/figure-skating-4/2024-25/grand-prix-5/entries-9/33868-ice-dance-4/file

 

[Colonel Green]

IAM has formally announced Davis/Smolkin and Pham/Spiridonov joining the school.

 

[Marta24]

Mrazkova/Mrazek working on choreo:

GARRETT SMITH on Instagram: "Day 1 with these talented ice dancers @daniel.mrazek1 @kacenka.mrazkova @mrazkova_mrazek @matteo_zanni #figureskating #figureskater #icedance #skate #choreography #choreographer #create #talent #body #team #italy #cze

158 likes, 11 comments - garrettsmithchoreography on July 3, 2024: "Day 1 with these talented ice dancers @daniel.mrazek1 @kacenka.mrazkova @mrazkova_mrazek @matteo_zanni #figureskating #figureskater #icedance #skate #choreography #choreographer #create #talent #body #team #italy #czechia".

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[peibeck]

Grumpy Cat at the keys getting 3rd at the Burgos International Music Festival:

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[coralline]

According to recent show in Ceska Lipa, Maria Kazakova(GEO)’s new partner seems to be Vladislav Kasinskii, presenting BIH back in 2022 and was fourth at Italian Nationals with Lavinia Casteller last season.

 

[aml78]

Surprised to see Jean-Luc performing without Kaitlin at The Ice. I wonder if she’s just done entirely? I thought they would continue to perform together.

 

[Debbie S]

Surprised to see Jean-Luc performing without Kaitlin at The Ice. I wonder if she’s just done entirely? I thought they would continue to perform together.

Hopefully they will. In The Ice, Jean-Luc isn't performing solo, just in the group numbers, along with Satoko. I think he and Satoko were announced with the cast as "navigators" which I thought meant they'd be doing choreo, but it looks like it's a role that performs with the group but not individually (I think Yuka Sato is doing all the group number choreo).