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Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat skating their Beethoven's Last Night free dance at the 2001 European Championships.

(Photos by Barry Mittan)

[dozydawn]

Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat Exhibition, 2002.

Susanna by The Art Company.

[kaleidodreams]

Updated 100 Memorable Skating Programs

Back in 2018, I created the original version of this list. (You can find the master post here.) Since 2024 marks my 30th year as an official fan of figure skating and there have been some more great programs created since the last time, I thought it was about time to update the list in honor of World Ice Skating Day. Same rules apply as last time:

Only senior competitive programs starting from the 1993-1994 season are eligible, since that's the first season I really started watching figure skating.

Each skater may only be listed once, unless a partner/discipline switch is involved.

Choice of music may also not be repeated. (Yes, there are two James Bond programs on the list, but Yuna and Wakaba use different music for the most part, so I'm letting it slide.)

I debated long and hard about whether or not I should still include programs from skaters who have proven themselves to be not so great people. I'm someone who has little difficulty separating the art from the artist, so in the end, I decided to keep them listed (although most of them got knocked down a few pegs). This list is more about the choreography than the skater anyway, although there are certainly some problematic choreographers out there, too. (Looking at you especially, Morozov!) So, just because a skater is listed doesn't mean that I'm a fan of them or that I condone their actions! I just think certain programs are still great regardless of the skaters' terrible behavior off the ice.

Choreographers are noted if known. If you know who choreographed the programs without a choreographer named, please let me know!

I've also created a handy playlist on YouTube if you don't want to click on all these links.

Ashley Wagner - Moulin Rouge (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2016 Worlds

Jason Brown - Melancholy (Rohene Ward) 2023 Nationals

Patrick Chan - Phantom of the Opera (Lori Nichol) 2011 Canadian Nationals

Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje -Je suis malade (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2012 Worlds

Meryl Davis/Charlie White - Kajra Re/Silsila Ye Chahat Ka/Dola Re Dola (Marina Zueva, Igor Shpilband, and Anuja Rajendra) 2010 Olympics

Mao Asada - Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tatiana Tarasova) 2014 Olympics

Sui/Han - Rain, In Your Black Eyes (Lori Nichol) 2019 Worlds

Marina Anissina/Gwendal Peizerat - Romeo & Juliet 1998 Olympics

Cain/LeDuc - W.E. (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2022 US Nationals

Daisuke Takahashi - Blues for Klook (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2012 Worlds

Kurt Browning - Casablanca (Sandra Bezic) 1994 Olympics

Michelle Kwan - Salome (Lori Nichol) 1996 Worlds

Alexei Yagudin - Winter (Tatiana Tarasova and Nikolai Morosov) 2002 Olympics

Jamie Sale/David Pelletier - Love Story (Lori Nichol) 2002 Olympics

Jeremy Abbott - Exogenesis (Jeremy Abbott and Yuka Sato) Nationals 2012

Oksana Grishuk/Evgeni Platov - The Feeling Begins 1997 Worlds

Yuzuru Hanyu - Seimei (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2015 Grand Prix Final

Chock/Bates - Egyptian Snake Dance (Marie-France Dubreuil, Ginette Cournoyer, and Sam Chouinard) 2019 Grand Prix Final

Javier Fernandez - Guys and Dolls (David Wilson) 2016 Worlds

Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres - Sound of Silence (John Kerr and Silvia Fontana) 2017 Euros

Evgenia Medvedeva - Anna Karenina (Daniil Gleichengauz) 2018 Olympics

Nathan Chen - Philip Glass medley (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2021 Worlds

Gabriella Papadakis/Guilliame Cizeron - Elegie (Saxon Fraser and Marie-France Dubreuil) 2022 Olympics

Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot - La terre vue du ciel (Christopher Dean) 2018 Olympics

Kevin Aymoz - Bolero (Brice Mousset and Kevin Aymoz) 2023 Skate America

Julia Lipnitskaya - Schindler’s List (Ilia Averbukh) 2014 Olympics

Elena Berezhnaya/Anton Sikharulidze - Lady Caliph 2002 Olympics

Yu-na Kim - James Bond medley (David Wilson) 2010 Olympics

Shoma Uno - Buenos Aires Hora Cero (Mihoko Higuchi) 2016 Grand Prix Final

Michal Brezina - The Way You Look Tonight (Jeffrey Buttle) 2016 Skate Canada

Shae-Lynn Bourne/Victor Kraatz - Riverdance 1998 Olympics

Adam Rippon - O/Fly On (Benji Schwimmer) 2016 Trophee de France

Jeffrey Buttle - Bells of Moscow (David Wilson) 2005 Worlds

Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier - Vincent (Carol Lane and Juris Razgulajevs) 2019 Canadian Nationals

Rudy Galindo - Swan Lake (Sharlene Franke) 1996 US Nationals

Sasha Cohen - Malaguena (Tatiana Tarasova) 2004 Worlds

Aljona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy - Pina (Ingo Steur) 2011 Grand Prix Final

Samantha Cesario - Carmen (Inese Budevica) 2013 Trophee Eric Bompard

Tatsuki Machida - East of Eden (Phillip Mills) 2014 Worlds

Xue Shen/Hongbo Zhao - Turandot (Lea Ann Miller, Renee Roca, and Gorsha Sur) 2003 Worlds

Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker - Liebestraume (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2018 Nationals

Olga Mikutina - My Nocturnal Serenade (Rostislav Sinicyn) 2023 Europeans

Lu Chen - The Last Emperor (Toller Cranston) 1995 Worlds

Giada Russo - Red Violin (Edoardo de Bernardis) 2016 Europeans

Junhwan Cha - Fate of the Clockmaker/Cloak and Dagger (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2022 Olympics

Han Yan - La La Land (Yuka Sato and Kurt Browning) 2019 Chinese Interclub League

Wakaba Higuchi - Skyfall (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2018 Worlds

Kazuki Tomono - Die Fledermaus (Misha Ge) 2022 Japanese Nationals

Yuma Kagiyama - Believer (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2024 Worlds

Karen Chen - On Golden Pond (Karen Chen) 2017 Nationals

Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani - Coppelia (Marina Zueva and Cheryl Yeager) 2016 Nationals

Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirov - Manfred Symphony (Peter Tchernyshev) 2014 Skate America

Philippe Candeloro - The Three Musketeers (Natacha Dabadie) 1998 Olympics

Alexander Abt - Songs from the Victorious City 1998 Nations Cup

Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir - Prince medley 2017 Worlds

Ekaterina Gordeeva/Sergei Grinkov - Moonlight Sonata (Marina Zueva) 1994 Olympics

Satoko Miyahara - Madama Butterfly (Tom Dickson) 2017 Japanese Nationals

Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha - The White Crow (Romain Haguenauer and Ginette Cournoyer) 2023 Four Continents

Anjelika Krylova/Oleg Ovsiannikov - Masquerade Waltz 1997 Worlds

Alena Kostornaia - The Departure, November (Daniil Gleikhengauz) 2019 Grand Prix Final

Nelli Zhiganshina/Alexander Gazsi - Two from the Grave (Ilia Averbukh) 2013 Worlds

Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov - The Man and The Shadow (Nikolai Morozov) 2015 Grand Prix Final

Stephanie Rosenthal - Rockit (Stewart and Christi Sturgeon) 2006 Nationals

Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue - Across the Sky, Caught Out In The Rain (Marie-France Dubreuil) 2018 Nationals

Mikhail Kolyada - The Nutcracker (Ilia Averbukh) 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia

Sinead Kerr/John Kerr - The Landing/Turn Around/Gravity of Love (Evgeni Platov) 2008 Worlds

Kaetlyn Osmond - Sous le ciel de Paris, Milord (Lance Vipond) 2016 Grand Prix Final

Carolina Kostner - Ave Maria (Lori Nichol) 2014 Olympics

Karina Manta/Joe Johnson - Sweet Dreams (Christopher Dean) 2019 Nationals

Gracie Gold - Firebird (Lori Nichol) 2016 Nationals

Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri - Atonement/Song For A Little Sparrow (Barbara Fusar-Poli and Corrado Giordani) 2022 Europeans

Keegan Messing - Singing in the Rain (Lance Vipond) 2018 Worlds

Elizabeth Punsalan/Jerod Swallow - Astor Piazolla medley (Igor Shpilband) 1998 Olympics

Rika Kihira - A Beautiful Storm (Tom Dickson) 2018 NHK Trophy

Mariah Bell - Chicago (Rohene Ward) 2016 Skate America

Brian Joubert - Rise (Evgeni Platov) 2009 Europeans

Stephane Lambiel - Poeta (Antonio Najarro) 2007 Worlds

Kaori Sakamoto - The Matrix (Benoit Richaud) 2020 NHK Trophy

Akiko Suzuki - O (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2012 NHK Trophy

Qing Pang/Jian Tong - The Impossible Dream (Shae-Lynn Bourne and David Wilson) 2010 Olympics

Takahito Kozuka - Io ci saro (Lori Nichol) 2014 Japanese National

Smart/Diaz - Mask of Zorro 2022 Europeans

Matt Savoie - Ennio Morricone medley (Tom Dickson) 2006 Nationals

Deniss Vasiljevs - Puttin’ On The Ritz (Benoit Richaud) 2016 Worlds

Caroline Green/Michael Parsons - Violin Concerto No.1 Eso Concerto, Clouds, The Mind on the Wind (Elena Novak and Alexei Kiliakov) 2022 Four Continents

Tara Lipinski - The Rainbow (Sandra Bezic) 1998 Olympics

Denis Ten - SOS d'un terrien en détresse (David Wilson) 2017 Shanghai Trophy

Valentina Marchei/Ondrej Hotarek - Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano (Massimo Scali) 2018 Europeans

Krisztina Czako - The Addams Family (Igor Bobrin) 1997 Europeans

Cheng Peng/Yang Jin - My Drag (Lori Nichol) 2016 GPF

Bradie Tennell - Mechanisms, Chronos (Benoit Richaud) 2020 4CC

Evgeny Plushenko - Tribute to Nijinsky 2004 Russian Nationals

Vanessa Gusmeroli - Rats D'Hotel 1999 Worlds

Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau - Monde Inverse (Shae-Lynn Bourne and Shae Zukiwsky) 2015 Skate America

Isabeau Levito - Dulcea Și Tandra Mea Fiară (Yulia Kuznetsova) 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva - Batwannis Beek/Sandstorm (Tatiana Prokofieva) 2015 Europeans

Kana Muramoto/Daisuke Takahashi - Soran Bushi (Marina Zoueva, Ilia Tkachenko, and Koyo Yanai) 2021 NHK Trophy

Amber Glenn - This Time (Kaitlyn Weaver and Randi Strong) 2024 Lombardia Trophy

Ivan Righini - You Raise Me Up (Ivan Righini) 2016 Europeans

Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte - Life is Beautiful (Liudmila Vlasova) 2017 NHK Trophy

[allekha]

Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat, 1998 Olympics Golden Waltz CD

[frogfelonies]

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[things-stankyle-probably-said]

are you a hockey stan or a football stan truther.

also consider: figure skating kyle

neither :P

I don't like football stan I think it's overdone at this point like yes he likes the broncos but I don't see him caring seriously about it as a hobby or extracurricular or future career like I'm just personally not into quarterback football player stan marsh it's not interesting to me

as for hockey I'm sorry but I watched stanley's cup and I don't know what conclusion y'all came away with but to me I don't think stan would want to play hockey or have anything close to it after all the trauma he went through and witnessed in that episode like seeing nhl players brutalize kindergartners like that would not be inspiring to him it would not

I know fandom likes jock stan I however do not, to me if stan were to play any sport he would never see it as anything important, just something casual to do to pass the time

I think I tried reading a fic with figure skating kyle in it once but I couldn't get into it, soz

my headcanon for kyle is that he's tall and skinny so that would work for that headcanon, I think he'd be good as either a solo or partner skater but idk how he'd get into it

here's what I think a figure skating kyle would look like with a partner

[linnetagain]

List of random Season/skating/Bloodweave thoughts that I don’t know justify their own asks but that I thought you might like to hear anyway:

Chapter 1, Karlach asking Astarion about pay: “Vroomvroom: so you’ll suddenly do a really shit job in week 5 then? :P” YOU CHEEKY LITTLE BUGGER, YOU (I love it, A+ foreshadowing)

I stumbled across Ryan Dunk’s “Freddy Mercury on Ice” skate, and his butt was weirdly distracting. I’m very aspec, is this what the allosexuals mean when they say a pair of jeans makes their butt look good? Why do I keep looking at his butt, shut up and let me watch the skate

The “middle finger” skate Astarion did while Gale was in the hospital was to Looking at Me by Sabrina Carpenter, right? I’m basing this on its order in my mega playlist, I can never remember what chapter things happen in and I do not have TIME to reread the whole thing again, no matter how enjoyable it would be. Anyway. I finally listened to Looking at Me yesterday, and then listened to it another 37 times. Holy cha-cha music, I was not expecting the mariachi trumpet sound. So sassy, I love it. (I did ballroom for about a year and half in high school, back in yonder years of 2011-2012. I was on the standard team, but sometimes I still get beat over the head with the urge to Do Something Latin by certain pop songs). But, more to the point, I LOVE the lyrics for this story moment. For all Amy’s strategizing about song choice and how they need to handle the narrative with Gale’s hospitalization, I think Astarion freaking nailed it—you think they’re looking at (Gale)? They’re looking at me. Media tries to make a big deal about Gale’s collapse, or Astarion’s response, or the fact that he’s showing up to Hessie’s school, or any potential leaked footage of the Mystra Kerfuffle backstage, or anything Cazador tries, or ANYTHING—Astarion draws their gaze instead, whether they want it or not (just look for the broken necks). I can’t remember the exact names of the maneuvers you can pick when you level up a fighter in-game, but there’s one that will force nearby enemies to attack you instead of your allies. That’s what this reminds me of.

Cool factoid about me: I got to go on a field trip in 1st grade to a nearby ice rink during the lead up to the 2002 Olympics, and we got to watch a skating pair rehearse their routines. After some research, I THINK it was the French ice dancing team, Gwendol Peizerat and Marina Anissina, who won gold in one of their events. The routine I got to watch was probably one of these! Honestly, the thing I remember most is the dude’s luxurious hair XD

Heads up: I am going to attempt to draw Gale & Astarion in contrasting skating costumes, drawing from male/female costumes, but making both of them gender non-conforming/androgynous. Gonna try and give Gale his long skirt. I’ll report back.

Imagine, if you will, all of Gale’s official music videos going forward incorporating dance/skating choreography from Astarion. I remember a gazillion years ago, when Lindsey Stirling was on a “dancing with the stars” type webshow where all the stars were YouTubers, her music videos going forward all credited her pro dance partner as the paid choreographer. Ice skate music videos. Piano on the ice rink. Gale singing (lip-syncing?) while skating. Outdoor skating on location. Maybe Gale skates with him, maybe it’s just Astarion, maybe it’s just Gale! Who knows. Ice skate music videos.

I have had this vivid image for… weeks, honestly, I can’t remember which chapter of my first read-through triggered this, of their final skate being some kind of dope mashup of Golden and Always You, with Astarion’s back and arms and Gale’s chest exposed, with gold body paint highlighting each of their scars. Because kintsugi. I figure Astarion would be the one to design and make/customize the costumes, cuz I do not trust Volo even in the slightest with something like that. Maybe it would pair with Cazador being publicly denounced and/or arrested, like a “do these look like they came from a fall to you??” I don’t know. Maybe there’d be a secret third song that Gale has yet to write that the other two would morph into, something triumphant to resolve the story of the skate/the songs, where Golden is kind of hindsight bittersweet and Always You is a pining song.

Ugh. I wish I had filk powers and could make Gale’s songs real. YO, FAN COMPOSERS/FILK MUSICIANS, I HAVE A PROJECT FOR YOU GIFT-WRAPPED AND READY TO GO—

By any chance, do you have video examples of the particular moves that the boys use in their skates? Both Astarion’s TikToks and their competition pieces. For reasons. No, shush, no guessing.

I found some really cool skating vids to share, but my YouTube is being a BUTT so perhaps that shall be a separate ask. Welp.

HEHEHEHE

Ice skater's glutes are INSANE. I know in canon Astarion has a itty bitty tush, but in season that man is CAKED.

Yes it was Looking at Me!! I have so much fun choosing the songs

Gale is absolutely still working on that song he's been writing about Astarion and it's about to get a whole new angle (so, less sad and pine-y) and I love to imagine Astarion in the music video or choreographing it, haha!

I do have examples of specific moves but depressingly few of them have names - would you be interested in me linking the YouTube videos with the timestamps? Would that be useful?

I'm sorry I haven't responded to the rest of your points but it was either YES, GOOD, YES or I CAN'T ANSWER THAT WITHOUT SPOILERS so I hope you'll forgive me. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm it's so appreciated ily 💕💕

[sunskate]

"The fan in me is a little sad," three-time Olympic champion Scott Moir told Olympics.com on Tuesday (3 December).

Moir was reflecting the mood of many inside the figure skating world as the news of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron's decision to retire spread.

"La note finale" was the simple headline from French sports publication L'Equipe, blaring what had long been whispered but not confirmed until a press release Tuesday: That Papadakis/Cizeron would not, indeed, try and defend their gold medal from the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 at Milano Cortina 2026.

"It makes me emotional, even if I was not surprised," Papadakis and Cizeron's longtime coach, Romain Haguenauer said from Grenoble, France, where the Grand Prix Final is set to take place later this week (5-7 December).

"I'm not someone who looks backwards a lot because I don't like being too nostalgic, but I was thinking about the past 15 years," Haguenauer shared. "And especially the past ten years that we've been together in Montreal. It's a lot of very good memories."

Papadakis/Cizeron have the numbers of greatness: Olympic gold, Olympic silver, five world titles, five European titles, two Grand Prix Final wins and seven French championships.

But what made them so great? Ice dance had really never seen another duo like them.

"As soon as they touched hands, it was just magic," continued Moir, having trained alongside the French in Montreal with his partner, Tessa Virtue, from 2016-18. "They just knew how to be there for each other. What they were able to create was just so elegant and beautiful."

"What they brought the sport was this extremely athletic version of artistry," Moir added. "They were the strongest and fastest, and because of that they were able to push themselves to be these artists who could really... rise to the occasion."

When Papadakis and Cizeron claimed gold at Beijing 2022, it marked the first time France had won a figure skating gold at the Olympics since another ice dance team, Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, captured gold at Salt Lake City 2002.

Already superstars within the sport, the duo shot to further fame in their home nation, and were feted at what would turn out to be their final official competition, winning the 2022 World Championships in front of a boisterous crowd in Montpellier weeks after the Beijing Games.

"Gabby and Guillaume are very, very well known in France, and are particularly appreciated by the general public," explained Haguenauer, who coached the duo since they were juniors.

"The culture of dance and contemporary dance is huge in France and I think people recognised that [about them]. Yes, they were Olympic champions and world champions, but more than that, they touched people who are not particularly following sports."

Their retirement will loom large over this week's Final in France, which Moir said now represents a pivot point for the ice dance discipline in particular as teams skate closer to the coming Winter Olympics, in February of 2026.

"The world starts to rotate now around Milano and how you set up Milano," Moir said of the competitive figure skating realm.

He harkened back to the 2017 Grand Prix Final, when Papadakis/Cizeron beat Virtue/Moir just two months prior to the coming Olympic Games.

"I don't think we would have won the Olympics in 2018 if we hadn't lost to Gabby and Guillaume in 2017 at the Final," he said.

"I look back and reflect on our career," said Moir, "And I think we are so grateful for the rivals that we had. We able to measure ourselves against two of the best teams in the history of the sport" in Meryl Davis and Charlie White and Gabby and Guillaume.

For Haguenauer, Papadakis/Cizeron represent a team who trusted the process - and the people around them. He convinced the team to move from France to Montreal in 2014 as the coach was setting up a new academy with the Canadian duo Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon.

Now, the Ice Academy of Montreal is one of the premier skating schools in the world.

"Everything started at I AM with them," Haguenauer said. "They were the first stone" we built with.

At this week's Final, four of the six ice dance teams train in Montreal at the Academy, including two-time and reigning world champions, Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the U.S.

"They brought ice dance to excellence, to the excellence of what ice dance should be," Haguenauer said. "They were at the top of their game for eight years - that's a long time.

He continued: "They have brought a style, a unique elegance and a unique sense of artistry in ice dance... no, in all of figure skating."

"I just dont think we can ever have the conversation about the best ice dancers of all time and not have their names included," Moir concluded. "I just don't think that's possible."

[tutuandscoot]

Allow me to geek out on some maths for a moment..

Ages of the winners of the Olympics Ice Dance event from the past 2 decades:

2002: Anissina/Peizerat (FRA) 27/30

2006: Navka/Kostomarov (RUS) 31/29

2010: Virtue/Moir (CAN) 20/22

2014: Davis/White (USA) 27/26

2018: Virtue/Moir (CAN) 28/30

2022: Papadakis/Cizeron (FRA) 26/27

The ages of the top 6 (as of GPF 2023) + P/C as of Milano/Cortina 2026:

Papadakis/Cizeron (FRA): 30/31 (3rd olys)

Chock/Bates (USA): 33/37 (5th olys *E)

Guignard/Fabbri (ITA): 37/39 (4th olys)

Gilles/Poirier (CAN): 34/34 (4th olys *Paul)

Fear/Gibson (GBR): 27/32 (2nd olys)

Fournier Beaudry/Sorensen (CAN): 33/37 (2nd olys)

Lajoie/Lagha (CAN): 26/27 (2nd olys)

Of the above 7 teams, only one will be younger than VM were in 2018.

AND PEOPLE THOUGHT VM WERE “ANCIENT” when they won in 2018…

In a world where VM return for the 2026 Olympics.. they would not be the oldest team competing..

Pre-VM, Ice Dance was an ‘older skaters’ sport.

VM made ice dance a ‘young sport’- they pushed the athleticism, skating skill, difficulty, artistry, versatility. Everyone was forced to skate to their standard. They retired at, what is now proven to be, a relatively young age. The ages of the *top* teams looking to the 2026 Olympics, the above teams are made up of holdovers from the VM era, and teams that have not and will never have the opportunity to achieve what VM did at- clearly now an anomaly of a young age, because of the holdover teams- If they do, it will be at the rate of the age cycle that has reappeared starting precisely at the retirement of Virtue/Moir.

VM was the outlier.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

Hi!!! Just finished reading In Loco Parentis (loved it very much) and I wanted to ask if it's okay if I did fanart!

Also I don't know shit about ballet but I really like figure skating (and I guess there's some overlap) and a lot of it reminded me of Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, who did very innovative stuff in Ice Dance doing lifts in which it was Marina who was lifting Gwendal and I thought it might interest you! (I leave some photos for reference)

Hope you have a great day and thanks for sharing your writing <3

it is EXTREMELY okay for you to do fan art, in fact I would find this entirely delightful. i am so glad you enjoyed it! i know very little about skating other than following a couple of ice skating pages on Instagram bc pretty videos go brrr, but this is cool to see!

[plaidetchocolatchaud]

@plaidetchocolatchaud raspberry flip, merci pour ce nom. Je suis encore ému de la performance de ce patineur, ça m'arrive pour la première fois. C'est très fort ce qu'il a fait, ce qu'il a donné...

(Je n'ai pas vu ta réponse hier, il y a beaucoup de commentaires sur la vidéo, je préfère te répondre directement, j'espère que c'est OK)

Désolée je viens de voir que je me suis trompée en commentaire, c'est un raspberry twist ! Je suis désolée. Et je t'avoue que même en slow motion c'est compliqué de comprendre précisément le saut, perso je vois un saut papillon, avec une vrille, mais je peux me tromper (edit : je viens de regarder sur internet et ça m'a bel et bien l'air d'un saut papillon vrillé et des tutos sur internet existent) !

Le saut papillon est l'un de mes sauts préférés en gr d'ailleurs, et j'apprenais à le faire, et c'est hyper dur de lui donner de l'amplitude, mais visuellement c'est un saut incroyable (en gif, Margarita Kolosov)

Et oui, je suis fan aussi d'Ilia, c'est pas le patineur le plus artistique (mais ça va venir, par rapport à la saison dernière, il a fait d'énormes progrès sur ce niveau-là). Même si tu ne connais pas tous les détails, regarde le détail sur le plan technique et tous les record qu'il a battu sur cette performance, c'est complètement dingue. J'espère juste qu'il fait attention niveau blessures et qu'il va avoir une carrière longue ( en tant qu'ancienne fan de sasha, ma plus grande crainte est qu'il connaisse la même trajectoire, même si il est dans un milieu beaucoup (mais alors beaucoup) moins abusif).

Si tu en veux d'autres, je te fais une liste (un peu random, il se fait tard désolée, petit guide pour débutant.e fait vraiment à l'arrache) :

Yuzuru Hanyu (jpn) : considéré comme le meilleur patineur de l'histoire, ses sauts sont juste parfait, et sur le plan artistique il a dépassé de très loin tous les autres. C'est, entre autres, le premier patineur à avoir essayé le quadruple axel, qu'Ilia a été le premier à réussir en compétition. Regardes son programme libre des JO de 2018, c'est une dinguerie (il l'a fait en étant blessé)

Nathan Chen (usa) : Malgré ses costumes horribles, si tu aimes les sauts, il fera ton bonheur

Adam Siao Him Fa (fra): La nouvelle star du patinage français, qui a partagé la vedette avec Ilia pour les mondiaux avec l'incroyable remontée qu'il a faite. Si tu as aimé le raspberry twist d'Ilia, tu pourrais aimer son arabian et son salto arrière. Et il paraît qu'il veut essayer le quadruple axel lui aussi.

Le trio Yuna Kim/Mao Asada/ Carolina Kostner : l'âge d'or du patinage artistique féminin sans aucun doutes. Chacune était différente. Tu pourrais adorer Mao et son programme libre à Sotchi

Kaori Sakamoto (jpn) : La reine du patinage actuelle

Surya Bonaly (fra) : la légende française. Elle a honteusement été volée pendant toute sa carrière

Katarina Witt (ex-rda) : ça remonte à loin, mais son charisme n'a pas vieilli, et ses outfits sont toujours aussi iconiques

Sui/Han (Chine) : je regarde pas trop les couples (pourtant c'est une discipline avec des éléments hyper variés, j'aime bien), mais celui là était vraiment mon préféré

Anissina/Peizerat (fra) : le meilleur couple de danse sur glace français imo. Tous leurs programme ou presque sont des masterclass, ça n'a pas vieilli. Et Marina est la seule femme dans le patinage à avoir porté un homme, ça ne s'est pas refait.

Virtue/Moir (can) : Jettes un œil à leur Tango de Roxanne et à leur gala sur Stay de Rihanna

Papadakis/Cizeron (fra) : Je ne dois pas avoir besoin de les présenter. Leurs meilleurs programmes sont ceux qui sont le moins classique je pense (Fame, leur danse rythmique de 2022). Big up à Gabriella pour avoir le courage de dénoncer les violences dans le patinage chez les femmes.

Gilles/Poirier (can): j'adore leur originalité ( leur programme de cette année sur Les Hauts de Hurlevent est une merveille)

Guignard/Fabri (ita) : (va regarder leur programme sur les flamands roses)

Si tu as envie de regarder de la gymnastique rhythmique (sport beaucoup trop sous-côté, parce qu'en plus des éléments gymniques et de la danse tu as des ENGINS D'ADRESSE)

Anna Bessonova (ukr) : sa routine la plus iconique est Hopak mais toutes, je dis, absolument TOUTES ses routines sont des chef d'œuvre. Elle s'est pris de plein fouet la concurrence russe et ses injustices, mais c'est la meilleure gymnaste

Elena Vitrichenko (ukr) : une icône, malheureusement les juges en avait décidé autrement

Almudena Cid (esp): la reine d'Espagne qui a disputé quatre finales olympiques

Les russes ont dominé la gr pendant deux décennies, mais seulement trois ont vraiment apporté quelque chose à ce sport : Evgenia Kanavea, Margarita Mamun (il y a eu un documentaire terrible sur sa préparation aux JO tu comprendras mieux pourquoi on ne peux plus défendre les russes tant que le système ne change pas) et Yana Kudryavtseva

Melitina Staniouta (blr) : je la mets juste pour son sublime pivot signature

Sofia Raffaeli (ita) : une des principales prétendantes à l'or olympique. Elle a besoin de force, elle s'est fait lâcher à la fin de la saison dernière par sa coach qui l'entraînait depuis toute petite

Polina Berezina et Alba Bautista (esp) : je les aime d'amour. Poli a mon âge et les rubans d'Alba sont des merveilles.

Eva Serrano (fra): Si les russes n'avaient pas falsifié les scores, elle serait la seule gymnaste française à avoir gagné une médaille olympique. Tkt, elle a pris sa revanche en étant juge 20 ans plus tard à Tokyo (quelle reine) où la Russie a été battue après 20 ans de domination sans partage.

Darja Varfolomeev (ger): n'écoute pas ce que ces haters disent sur Internet. si tu as aimé Ilia (et que tu es toujours là !) tu vas l'adorer. Ses difficultés sont folles, et elle est d'une consistance dingue et fait ses meilleurs performances sous pression. Pendant les mondiaux elle dansait sur les musiques des autres en attendant son score, et elle a un sourire plus gros que son visage. C'est la favorite pour les JO.

Takhmina Ikromova (uzb): la révélation des derniers mondiaux, et la gymnaste la plus complète. elle vient de gagner le concours général du grand prix de Thiais ce weekend

Barbara Domingos : première gymnaste brésilienne qui a du succès, tu devrais aimer son ruban et son cerceau sur le roi Lion

Stiliana Nikolova (bul) : La plus expressive de la bande et celle qui a le plus de responsabilité, le jour où elle arrivera à vaincre son stress pour les finales elle sera imbattable

Boryana Kaleyn (bul) : la GOAT. elle s'est essayé et a réussi à TOUS les styles musicaux, du classique au metal, à la K-pop, au folklore sibérien à des morceaux de musiques composés exprès pour elle. Le cycle précédant un nombre incalculable de médailles lui sont passées sous le nez à cause de l'inflation des scores russes.

Ensemble France : voir mon précédant post

Ensemble Bulgare "Les Golden Girls) : le groupe de 2018-2021 (surnommé Les Diamants) est le meilleur de l'histoire, et les petites nouvelles font de très belles routines. Leurs performances dans les années 80, qui leur ont valu leur surnom valent le coup d'œil

Ensemble d'Espagne : leur performance en 2016 sur Vida Carnaval est de l'or

Ensemble d'Ukraine : quand elles sont stables, elles sont merveilleuses. Jettes un œil sur leurs galas : Archangel et Angels and Demons

Ensemble de Chine : des reines

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Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat skating their Beethoven's Last Night free dance at the 2001 World Championships.

(Photos by Barry Mittan)

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Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat Original Dance “Jive” 1998

Snatch and Grab It by Dana Gillespie.

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Dramatic ice dance used to have Anissina/Peizerat programs 😔😔

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what do you think of the 2003 controversy about the Israeli team of Galit Chait and her partner winning bronze at Worlds and 20 of the 24 dance teams signing a petition saying judging was unfairly biased by politicking from her father Boris, the head of the Israeli fed? And that the Lithuanian team should have been on the podium instead? Galit is a tech specialist now, and her father still runs the Israeli skating fed, so nearly the entire field of a competition could speak up and call foul and be dismissed anyway, no repercussions

Q #211:

Hi anon,

I think you mean 2002 Worlds but yes another strike against the 6.0 system after a very contentious Olympics. I do think it’s a very unique circumstance because there are very few times in ice dance (or skating as a whole) where a weak, non-traditional skating federation controls the narrative and is influencing the formation of judging blocks. Normally in ice dance it’s highly influenced by coach even more so than fed. The whole incident was emblematic of all of the issues with 6.0 (blind block judging and alliances, politics entirely dictating scores in face of errors, a complete and utter lack of movement in standings except in block realignment, smaller federation teams like Drobiazko/Vanagas repetitively getting screwed and being unable to build momentum) but it was only because of a few reasons that it actually resulted in change:

D/V were VERY well-liked in ice dance

Chait/Sakhnovski were not and her father was essentially widely despised

Americans Lang/Tchernyshev took point on organizing the petition

all of the traditional powers in ice dance (Linichuk, Zhulin, Tchaikovskaia, Dubova, Zazoui, Gorshkov, etc.) had teams who were being slowed down by the Israelis

Anissina/Peizerat & Fusar-Poli/Margaglio didn’t compete at Worlds and would’ve been on the podium otherwise, it wouldn’t have generated nearly as much controversy if D/V and C/S were fighting over 5th

North American media were able to leverage the fact that D/V were getting f*cked over by the Eastern Block to apply that logic to Bourne/Kraatz

C/S only won ONE segment: FD

So yes, I do believe that D/V were deserving of bronze at that worlds but I don’t think it was a highway robbery, more of just a boiling over point.

My hot 6.0 ice dance take is that there was so little actual criteria when it comes to the free dances that it is hard to actively differentiate teams beyond a certain point. And a lot of the “well X was clearly better than Y” is truly just preference unlike the CD and OD where there was a clear emphasis on footwork, linking movements, edge quality, crispness, etc. That’s why it’s a little frustrating when commentary under IJS is like “well these teams are evenly matched in everything so its really just down to PCS” because while that was basically true for 6.0 it SHOULDN’T be true under IJS. Especially because all of the top teams since the inception have had very different strengths and weaknesses with their respective rivals. A lot of the things that we value in modern, IJS ice dance are completely different than under 6.0. For example, you’ll here commentators talking about the amazing quality and speed of a dance spin and in a 6.0 FD it will literally be 4 rotations max, where in modern programs they’re at minimum 9 and almost always closer to 20. Lifts are another animal as well beyond just “this is not aesthetically pleasing / this is aesthetically pleasing.”

I don’t think we will ever see something like this replicated because of (1) the Gadbois monopoly means that MF would largely have control over results and it’s more likely that Gadbois teams would be screwed over internally and you would lose all camp backing if you tried to petition, (2) there’s now a lot more money going into each result, and money trumps uniquely intimidating personalities, (3) it was riding the wave of the biggest scandal in skating history at the time and basically everyone in ice dance was sick of 6.0.

So yes it’s not the most ethical that Chait is so involved in sport but as Israel’s whole skater development program is C-list Jewish Canadians, Americans, and Russians, I highly doubt they’re going to be relevant in the next few decades that Chait will be involved. Hope this helps!

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Hmm

Majority of Yuzuru's programs, but, uh, picking one sp, one fs and one gala it would be: Ballade, Seimei, and Notte Stellata

Stephane's The Four Seasons, truly an experience. Feels like a program

Daisuke's POTO

Misha Kolyada's White Crow

Deniss Vasiljevs' Hallelujah this season

Tatsuki Machida's Firebird and East of Eden

Jun's Fate of the Clockmaker

Jason's Sinnerman

Kazuki's galas are always brain chemistry altering. What's my Name and Jazz Machine always slay

Caro's Ave Maria and Bolero

Most of Mao's programs, top 3 being Rach No.2 and Bells of Moscow and Scheherazade

Yuna's Danse Macabre and Kiss of a Vampire

Shizuka's Turandot!!!!

Satoko's Song for a Little Sparrow and Tosca and Gnossiene but gala version

Rika's Beautiful Storm and The Fire Within

Wakaba's Skyfall

Hana's Koo Koo Fun and Shakuhachi

Kaori's The Piano

Sui/Han's Rain in Your Black Eyes OBVIOUSLY. Also Blues for Klook and their gala Run

Volosozhar/Trankov's Jesus Christ Superstar

Shen/Zhao's Turandot, Adagio, and Thais Meditation

Pang/Tong's The Impossible Dream

Peng/Jin's Ophelia

Miura/Kihara's Woman

Papadakis/Cizeron's Fame and Sunday Afternoon

Virtue/Moir's Carmen and Mahler

Anissina/Peizerat's Romeo and Juliet

Krylova/Ovsyannikov's Carmen

Klimova/Ponomarenko's Bach's Air

Weaver/Poje's Je Suis Malade and SOS

Gilles/Poirier's Vincent and Wuthering Heights

I haven't been able to stop thinking of Lajoie/Lagha's Thriller lately

Orihara/Pirinen's My Jolly Sailor Bold

Muramoto/Takahashi's Soran Bushi!!!!!!

Ilnykh/Katsalapov's Swan Lake

Hubbell/Donohue's Janet Jackson Medley. No one's doing it like them!

Smart/Diaz with their The Mask of Zorro swordfight fd

which figure skating programme permanently altered your brain chemistry?

(any discipline!)

fs fans pls interact, trying to find some moots who are equally obsessed with this crazy sport :')