The Dance Hall 13: When You Dance on the Ice and Your Feet Twizzle Twice, That's Amore

dancefan17 said:
Largely a very highly respected and experienced panel for dance. Only 1 judge from the Philadelphia area who is a far less experienced national judge and, to the best of my knowledge, does not have a lot of experience at the senior level. Was formerly a coach of lower level students. Hopefully overall results will be in alignment. Honestly, overall a group with impressive credentials for US Nationals.
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Michelle Marvin?
 
dancefan17 said:
Largely a very highly respected and experienced panel for dance. Only 1 judge from the Philadelphia area who is a far less experienced national judge and, to the best of my knowledge, does not have a lot of experience at the senior level. Was formerly a coach of lower level students. Hopefully overall results will be in alignment. Honestly, overall a group with impressive credentials for US Nationals.
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That's hater energy. She has a ton of knowledge and deserves to be on that panel!
 
jackson said:
That's hater energy. She has a ton of knowledge and deserves to be on that panel!
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The fact is she is far less experienced than the large majority of the panel. She has been on one Nationals judging panel at the Championship level in 2024. I am sure she has worked hard and it takes a lot of time to work your way up to judging at the national level. No hate; just facts.
 
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dancefan17 said:
The fact is she is far less experienced than the large majority of the panel. She has been on one Nationals judging panel at the Championship level in 2024. I am sure she has worked hard and it takes a lot of time to work your way up to judging at the national level. No hate; just facts.
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Sounds personal! Also, please share how you are qualified to assess how she is not qualified to be among her peers on a panel.
 
jackson said:
Sounds personal! Also, please share how you are qualified to assess how she is not qualified to be among her peers on a panel.
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This is my last response on this topic. I did not and am not assessing her qualifications, other than she has significantly less experience than the rest of the panel and does not have a lot of experience judging at the championship and national level. There is nothing personal about this statement. I have said this three times now.
 
dancefan17 said:
This is my last response on this topic. I did not and am not assessing her qualifications, other than she has significantly less experience than the rest of the panel and does not have a lot of experience judging at the championship and national level. There is nothing personal about this statement. I have said this three times now.
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She has been around the sport her whole life. Nothing is going to give her experience, but time. To move up to the level she has in a relatively short period of time means her tenured peers feel she has the expertise to sit on a panel with them!
 
Andrea82 said:
Ritter/Brykalov (Azerbaijan) achieved the minimums for Worlds thanks to Sofia Trophy panel.

Val/Kazimov win with a score higher than what they scored at Spanish Nationals.
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I guess Bulgaria is the new Turkiye when it comes to ice dance scoring. (Though I don't think there was a stream, so V/K could surprise us by pushing for the final group at Euros...maybe...I guess...)

New Bulgarian team of Silvia Lutay (aka Albena Denkova's niece) & Konstantin Tkachenko also got their minimums in Sofia, so that's another country for Junior Worlds - by my count we're up to 31 teams.
 
Impromptu said:
It's on Piper's instastory, but I don't know how to do a direct link to stories. I hope that's going to be what they use in competition, it's really cute, and still has the G/P quirkiness to it.
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www.instagram.com

Tina Weltz on Instagram: "Practice doesn’t always get the spotlight, but it’s where confidence is built. Our ice dance and pair teams putting in the final work before senior competition begins today. #skatecanada #roadtomilan #teamcanada #figureskat

31 likes, 1 comments - tinaweltz_media on January 9, 2026: "Practice doesn’t always get the spotlight, but it’s where confidence is built. Our ice dance and pair teams putting in the final work before senior competition begins today. #skatecanada #roadtomilan #teamcanada #figureskatingchampion...
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They are in the first post on that instagram account.
 
Sorry if this is off topic, but is there a thread discussing Papadakis and Cizeron's latest comments on the news? I tried looking in Trash Can and Great Skate Debate.. "News and updates à la Française, part quatre" last post is on Thursday.
 
My thoughts on this seasons' selections of The White Crow:

I really loved this music when Kolyada skated to it. It is probably my favorite program by him. I understand why other athletes would select it; but tonight we had two versions of it live, which makes at least three in dance this season that I know of, and none of those three leave a similar impression. I've decided that's because none of them use the balletic movement that his did, and I just wanted to finally type this thought out here because I'd really like to see choreographers/athletes/coaching teams consider the magic they could create by bringing that aspect of the original source to the ice. (The less generic, the more impactful to yours truly).
 
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