#bronsard/bouaraguia

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Emmy Bronsard and Aissa Bouaraguia competing in the 2020 Junior Canadian Championships.

(Sources: Danielle Earl Photography and Skate Canada)

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Who in the current junior teams worldwide do you see as a serious contender for the 2026 Olympics? Or will the next Olympics be dominated by senior teams that are already established this quad?

ooh it's interesting to think about which juniors have the potential to medal at the Olympics, but unless they rise really fast after they senior up, it probably will take til 2030. Usually the top Olympic teams have been seniors for more than a full quad - like in Beijing, you'd have to reach to #13 (Lajoie/Lagha) to find a team who were still juniors in 2018. PYC and Sochi were the same- all teams in the top 10 were seniors for a quad+. P/C were young in 2018, but they had been seniors since 2013-14. Ice dancers can compete longer than singles skaters, so you see a lot of experienced teams in the final flights at the Olympics.

So much can happen with juniors before they even go senior - there are a lot of splits, like Avonley Nguyen/Vadym Kolesnik winning Jr Worlds and being done. Emmy Bronsard/Aissa Bouaraguia 😢 Natalie D'Alessandro/Bruce Waddell, Utana Yoshida/Shingo Nishiyama. And we're not seeing the Russian juniors this year. So it feels too soon to guess who might have the combination of drive, resources, ability and luck to make the podium in 2030. But it's fun to wonder how far the Mrazeks or Bashynska/Beaumont can go.

With the minimum ages for jr/sr being raised, more teams will stay junior longer, so maybe the path from juniors to Olympics will get shorter?

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Bronsard/Bouaraguia + Kiss & Cry at Junior Worlds 2020

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My Top 10 Ice Dance Programs 2019-20 (Part I)

I posted this on Twitter yesterday, but I’m putting it here too because why not? 

Now that I no longer have outside commitments (read: am no longer a student and am unemployed), I finally put together my season’s best list for ice dance. I followed Flutzes & Waxels podcast’s system: combined junior and senior, one program per team, and based more on entertainment value than execution. And because I apparently don’t have enough creative outlets, I, uh, wrote it in emojis.

2019-2020 ⛸💃🔝🔟

10. 🇨🇦👩🏻‍🎤🧑🏽‍🎤

9. 🇬🇧📸✨

8. 🇨🇦🔫🤠💰❤️

7. 🇨🇦👑🎸⚡️

6. 🇨🇦🎊🚫🛑🎶

5. 🇨🇳🎩 🎩

4. 🇪🇸✋🕺⚡️

3. 🇺🇸🩸🌬

2. 🇬🇪🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏻‍♂️

1. 🇨🇦⬅️➡️🕑

10. Emmy Bronsard/Aissa Bouaraguia “David Bowie” FD

That moment when the music transitions to “Fame” and they have a little dance break just because? *chef’s kiss* This program is creative and fresh and has such a fun energy that feels perfect for these two. 

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9. Lilah Fear/Lewis Gibson “Vogue” FD

I mean, everything I have to say about this program has already been said. I didn’t think they could ever top Disco Brits and then they did. And those LIFTS?!

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8. Laurence Fournier Beaudry/Nikolaj Sorensen “Bonnie & Clyde” RD

My first response upon hearing that the Broadway theme is sticking around was sheer joy at another year of this program, because it deserves a full season! I still can’t believe the Canadian ice dance galaxy brain that happened with B&C twizzles this year. Great minds and all that.

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7. Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha “Bohemian Rhapsody” FD

These. Two. This is how you make the jump to senior. They *lived* every second of this program. I had such a hard time picking between their FD and RD, but I love how many different moods they put into this single program — it’s not just intense, it’s funny and soft and vulnerable. And I’m not over the fact that Marjo just slides across the entire rink on one knee at the end? Iconic. 

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6. Miku Makita/Tyler Gunara “Hairspray” RD

So begins the trio of “Rhythm Dances I can’t watch without grinning from ear to ear.” This is the best junior RD of the season. It’s youthful, fun, high-energy, and these two sell it to the rafters every. single. time. 

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Part II Here.

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Emmy Bronsard and Aissa Bouaraguia at JGP Zagreb 2019 || RD | FD

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Nadiia Bashynska & Peter Beaumont break the fourth-place curse that afflicted Canada’s junior dance teams in the first three Junior Grand Prix events of the season, winning the bronze medal at 2019 JGP Chelyabinsk.

Now that that’s done with, here’s to everybody else doing better in their second events.

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Canadian babies ranking after rd

1. Emmy & Aissa

2. Natalia & Bruce

3. Miku & Tyler

4. Nadiia & Peter

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Vote in my twitter poll??

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Canadian Junior Ice Dance

Last updated: 14/10/18 (14 Oct.)

This is how the whole field stacks up with their JGP bests at the end of the JGP events:

Ages as of update

Lajoie/Lagha (17/19) 166.52 (65.57, 100.95) ~

Fisher/Malette-Paquette (17/20) 152.46 (60.60, 92.12) ~

Bronsard/Bouaraguia (14/17) 140.67 (56.04, 85.01) ~

D’Alessandro/Waddell (14/16) 138.13 (52.94, 85.19) ~

Stairs/Graham (18/20) 136.75 (55,35, 81.40) ^ *

Fabbri/Ayer (15/20) 135.66 (58.53, 78.21) *

McIssac/Circelli (16/16) 134.19 (52.86, 81.33) ~ *

Galiyanova/Lochhead (16/17) 132.58 (52.94, 79.64) ^ *

Makita/Gunara (15/16) 127.80 (46.49, 81.31) ^

Bashynska/Beaumont (14/17) 124.57 (47.26, 77.31) ^

^ was only given one JGP assignment

~ choreographed by MF and/or Romain

* new partnership

Lajoie/Lagha are headed off to their second JGPF and looking to medal both there and at junior worlds.

At junior worlds, Canada only has 2 spots in ice dance and looking at how these teams have performed, it seems that Lajoie/Lagha and Fisher/Malette-Paquette are the top two teams and most likely headed there.

The battle at nationals will be for bronze as Bronsard/Bouaraguia and D’Alessandro/Waddell are the bright new stars, both young teams with a long way to go — and particularly with D’A/W, complex choreography that they haven’t quite mastered. We will most likely see them and many of the other teams again at the Skate Canada Challenge from 28 November - 2 December in Edmonton, AB (it will be live-streamed as usual and accessible from the Skate Canada website or daily motion account).

As for the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships, they’re on 14 - 20 January in Saint Johns, NB, and will hopefully also be live streamed.

What I’m looking for with Canadian ice dance at junior worlds is for Lajoie/Lagha to be on the podium (ideally in 1st), and for Canada to gain back 3 spots.

Looking past junior worlds and into the next season, Lajoie/Lagha, with probably by then 3 junior national titles under their belt, have confirmed that they will be moving up to seniors. Due to age restrictions, we will be seeing Stairs/Graham, Fisher/Malette-Paquette and Fabbri/Ayer do the same. Please note: a previous version of this post stated that the later two teams would remain junior eligible for 1 more season, this is incorrect.

Teams that can still compete in juniors next season are as follows with the number of seasons following the 2018-19 season that they remain junior eligible beside as well as the last season that they can compete as juniors

Bronsard/Bouaraguia (14/17) 4 (2022-23)

D’Alessandro/Waddell (14/16) 4 (2022-23)

Bashynska/Beaumont (14/17) 4 (2022-23)

McIssac/Circelli (16/16) 3 (2021-22)

Makita/Gunara (15/16) 3 (2021-22)

Galiyanova/Lochhead (16/17) 3 (2021-22)

In the next few seasons I wouldn’t be surprised to see many of these teams gaining traction (and as many settle into new partnerships, surprise us), but I’m particularly keeping my eye on Bronsard/Bouaraguia and D’Alessandro/Waddell; the later of whom are already national pre-novice and novice champions and will be looking to add a junior title to their resume.

B/B are known for their charismatic, vibrant and engaging performance quality and with training at Gadbois they are surrounded the champions — which is clearly paying off. As they don’t have much experience it will be interesting to see how they adapt to the pressures and ups and downs of competition in terms of consistency and mental preparation, as well as how their 4 year age gap and somewhat of a skill gap fares in maintaining a partnership to seniors and whether she grows etc.

D’A/W can be seen pushing the limits with complex choreography, particularly changes in and out of hold (similarly to a young V/M) and attacking every step with gusto and confidence. These two, however, when they would otherwise have an opportunity to pull ahead, tend to lose levels quite easily and sometimes struggle balancing that with the artistic side of the programs (have a great performance commitment and quality but lose the technical that we know they are capable of achieving). They are very well matched, have made massive strides since last season and seem to have a very positive trajectory looking forwards. Finally, both of these skaters do still compete as singles skaters, training out of TCC. Making the choice between singles and ice dance is something that they will eventually have to do. Seeing how Skate Canada is rewarding them as an ice dance duo and their potential I would be more inclined to want to see them stick to ice dance but understand if they decide that singles suits their aspirations better.

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Canadian Junior Ice Dance team Emmy Bronsard and Aissa Bouaraguia have split. Bronsard said in the announcement that they have taken different paths, and a decision had to be made.

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2020 Junior World debuts in ice dance

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Emmy Bronsard / Aissa Bouaraguia

ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships II Rhythm Dance

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Does every skater at IAM have a who I am video?

the who.i.am videos were a short series they did in summer 2021 to feature junior skaters, and they included 4 teams: Jordyn and Noah, Emmy Bronsard & Aissa Bouaraguia, Hannah Lim & Ye Quan, and Sandrine Gauthier & Quentin Thieren

They also featured Nathan Lickers in a separate post:

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Emmy Bronsard/Aissa Bouaraguia

➞ Choreographic Character Step Sequence | JGP Courchevel 2019

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Emmy and Aissa have my WHOLE HEART

that’s it that’s the post

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Emmy Bronsard and Aissa Bouaraguia at JGP Courchevel 2019 || RD | FD