The Dance Hall 5: Ice Dance Fans 2017-2018

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Miloune said:
For those who haven't seen it yet : Cappellini / Lanotte in Minsk:
SD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AvCcN9fOIA
FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuHLTyo2yLs

The SD didn't convince me much...
The FD is typically them, even if less bubbly than the last 2 years. Is it me or Anna spends a lot of time being rotated around Luca?? The music is beautiful however. I think it could be a lovely moment with more mileage.
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The FD is beautiful and I love this lift https://youtu.be/UuHLTyo2yLs?t=57
 
Debbie S said:
I thought the top 10 ranked teams in the world draw the last 10 spots (i.e. last 2 groups) in the SD. So P/C and V/M could be in either the last or next to last group, as could B/S (currently #1), C/B, Shibs, etc.
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The draw rules for the SD have changed since Sochi so that unranked teams (if there are any) draw for the first slots among themselves; then the remainder of the bottom half in rankings draw randomly for the remaining top half of start orders; then the top half of ranked skaters draw seeded in groups - the top five ranked draw for the last group, 6-10 for the second to last group, etc. The number of seeds depends on the number of teams.
 
Dancers saved the entire Skate Canada, so many great performances yesterday :respec:
Top-3 were sublime, V/M's FD is growing on me, Tessa looks absolutely stunning :swoon:
Enjoyed WeaPo yesterday but the inflation is insane:
2012 Worlds - 100.18
2017 SKI - 112.54
Madie and Zack are just :smokin:

Speaking of others:
- Jean-Luk is an amazing dancer, latin is absolutely his dance, who would have thought? :)
- Kavita and Joti have very lovely programs this year (thanks, Marina), what a step up after Igor's choreography. Kavita's dress in the short is to die for :swoon:
- I don't get Smart/Diaz's high scores.. I think they are in the same league with the poles and the germans :rolleyes:
- Loboda/Drozd had a nice debut on GP series, but I don't think they have any future together, especially if she won't get in shape :shuffle:
 
Coquelicot14 said:
The Fed tried to have them stay together, you can thank Katsalapov and Sinitsina for the two trainwrecks those teams became...
They are the ones initiated the break. Sucks.
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Thanks for the information! Now I can only say that love does make you blind...

Ka3sha said:
Dancers saved the entire Skate Canada, so many great performances yesterday :respec:
Top-3 were sublime, V/M's FD is growing on me, Tessa looks absolutely stunning :swoon:
Enjoyed WeaPo yesterday but the inflation in score is insane:
2012 Worlds - 100.18
2017 SKI - 112.54
Madie and Zack are just :smokin:

Speaking of others:
- Jean-Luk is an amazing dancer, latin is absolutely his dance, who would have thought? :)
- Kavita and Joti have very lovely programs this year (thanks, Marina), what a step up after Igor's choreography. Kavita's dress in the short is to die for :swoon:
- I don't get Smart/Diaz's high scores.. I think they are in the same league with the poles and the germans :rolleyes:
- Loboda/Drozd had a nice debut on GP series, but I don't think they have any future together, especially if she won't get in shape :shuffle:
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Agreed with almost everything, except that I would have added the overscoring of the Canadian in the SD, and I don't like the German's SD at all. Also I think H/D should've been second at the end of this.
Haven't seen V/M's FD yet, can't find a proper link :(
 
In 2014, my favorite programs were:

Cappellini & Lanotte's SD and FD
Pechelat & Bourzat's original SD and FD
Davis & White's SD
Ilinykh & Katsalapov's FD
 
barbarafan said:
The lifts have been a sore spot since D/W. Yes Tessa always throws herself into position in lifts and Scott catches her and steadies her as opposed to D/W ..Charlie lifted her and threw her around like a rag doll..This never showed in their marks.
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Didn't want to derail the Virtue and Moir fan thread--they were fantastic at Skate Canada, I love their short dance in particular.

The quoted is a slam on Meryl and Charlie I have read before, but not something I have observed. Would you please cite a specific lift or lifts (video links would be great) in which Meryl is a rag doll?
 
Marta24 said:
I/K`s Swan Lake and P/B`s Little Prince were great, though
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And so was W/P's Maria Buenosaires tango FD. I actually did not mind D/W's Scheherezade either. V/M's FD was a bit disappointing for me as a fan, even though I really liked their performance of it at the Olympics individual event. C/L had a nice FD in their style that was not bad, but certainly was not one of their best. B/S's FD was good and stylistically fresh for them the season before, but didn't look that good at the Olympics among other teams FDs almost all of which had that festive Olympic mood each in their own way. Shibutanis FD looked promising and different for them at the beginning of the season (at least to me, as, unlike some other figure skating fans, I don't hate Michael Jackson programs), but, instead of improving in terms of choreo and expression, went very much downhill from there.
 
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I said it already in the Shibs thread, but we might get to see the best Ice Dance programs ever in Korea, because there is so much variety, and it's very accurate to the era we live in. It feels like everyone will display its own style. It didn't feel like that in 2014. Maybe related to a Russia being a big skating country (you may want to adapt musically speaking) ?
Now it's neutral ground.
 
Anyasnake said:
I said it already in the Shibs thread, but we might get to see the best Ice Dance programs ever in Korea, because there is so much variety, and it's very accurate to the era we live in. It feels like everyone will display its own style. It didn't feel like that in 2014. Maybe related to a Russia being a big skating country (you may want to adapt musically speaking) ?
Now it's neutral ground.
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If SCI was any indication, I completely agree with you.
 
Lol it has almost been four years since Meryl and Charlie competed. Let's move on.
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Why? it's such a shame that people forget so quickly about the past champions.
 
I just saw the French fd moonlight sonata on youtube , aside from this style is there anything else they know how to do, V&M should win Olympic gold in a walk.
 
What's up with Agafonova/Ucar? They were clearly progressing through the last few seasons and had one of my favorite performances from last season. The last half of their FD at European Championships was effervescent and the audience responded to their joy and passion with a loud ovation (they finished 9th in the FD, which was a great result). This season, they look like they've regressed. Injuries?
 
ISU always has to create a fake rival for V&M, I guess this was part of the deal skate Canada gets its international dance school in Canada have a team that finished 13th in the world move in , and V&M are allowed to win.
 
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