#stepanova / bukin

[wanderlustinwonderland18]

Two years and counting ✌🏻 So happy to share this wonderful sport with people around the world ❤️

[theicedancekingdom]

[aleksandra-ivan]

2023/2024 • Don't Worry, Be Happy | Can't Touch This.

[figurelifeflirt]

Grand Prix France entry #7

Short Dance

Lopareva/Brissaud(FRA)

Thoughts: I wasn’t a fan of the outfits but this choreography was fast paced and so fun to watch.

Carreira/Ponomarenko(USA)

Thoughts: I love what Christina did with her hair. The exit on the rotational lift could’ve gone a little smoother.

Reed/Ambrulevicius(LTU)

Thoughts: Saulius has pretty eyes. Unfortunately, they did have that fall. Hopefully they can turn things around in the free dance.

Papadakis/Cizeron(FRA)

Thoughts: I liked Gabriella’s nails. And the curve lift was pretty.

Stepanova/Bukin(RUS)

Thoughts: Alexandra looked hot during the ending pose. Ivan’s facial hair prevents me from finding him attractive.

Gilles/Poirier(CAN)

Thoughts: this is utter orange nonsense but at least the rotational lift is fun.

[misslacklamb]

An Italian cheese company was a sponsor of a figure skating competition. The medalists all got cheese as gifts. The photos are delightful!

[sunskate]

Kaitlin & Jean-Luc as juniors - they were SO good! this is their 2nd event together, JGP Chemnitz in Germany, when they'd been together for all of 4 months - the glide, the edges, the dance ability, the cheekiness and flair are all there, especially in the short - she was 15, he had just turned 19 a few days before - they won silver, behind Stepanova/Bukin

[lunalilith19]

I know you've spoken about how interesting Scott and Tessa's charts are when you read them together and see how they balance and their strengths make sense etc. Are there any current or recent ice dance teams charts you also find interesting or really well matched?

Chock and Bates and Lolo and Nik have a lot of supportive connection and seem really good together in their charts.

interesting teams -Stepanova and Bukin have a yod together which is really similar to VM in some ways- there's that sense of him being the key to her lock, and it's a connection that's hard for them and anyone else to understand, too - only it's pretty clear in Stepbuk's composite chart why they are more like family and not romantic.

there have been a couple of teams who had charts that look like they might not last, and they did split. so when some of those same aspects show up in another team, i'm always curious if they'll last, and if they do, what factors they have that keep them together.

hard Uranus aspects in the composite to personal planets, especially Venus, can make things unstable. but it's more common to see in junior teams - teams who stay together long enough to establish themselves as seniors usually have more stability than that.

Olivia Smart and Tim Dieck have Venus square Uranus in their composite and the Sun isn't aspected, so there are some signs that this might not be a long haul connection. they do have some more positive aspects, so we'll see. i hope the best for her sake

[little-lynx]

even though I knew you are from russia- i had no idea you were following figure skating too!! but it totally make sense and if you ever do a painting on that please share it on tumblr too :D

also your paintings are amazing, basically the only reason I check tumblr some days!

Heeeey! ❤️ this post was in my drafts for foreeeeever 🙈

Well, yeah, THG and figure skating (ice dance in particular) are my main fandoms ;) actually my tumblr looked like ruslena’s fan page back in 2014 😅 (ruslena = elena ilinykh/ruslan zhiganshin, my forever favourite ice dance team, unfortunately not existing anymore). I was a little obsessed with them, haha. Ok, not “a little”. Ohhh…. My heart is forever broken because of them.

I try not to become very attached to any ice dance team anymore after ruslena’s split (that still hurts) but I do really like two teams right now.  Russian Aleksandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin (Sasha is extremely beautiful 😍)

And US team Madison Chock/Evan Bates (they are so sweet! And give me everlark feels all the time)

Gifs by @findthatsynchronicity​ , illustrations by me ;))

It’s Olympics now so if you have time please watch Stepanova/Bukin and Chock/Bates programs, especially free dances, both are amazing! 

[dozydawn]

on that subject, alexandra stepanova’s sculpted ballroom style hairdo coming undone during her moulin rouge program in 2019 was so lovely & added something passionate & real to the performance i thought...

my love hate relationship with figure skaters of the 60s having outrageously glam hairdos

[samstree]

Alexandra Stepanova & Ivan Bukin ☆ Internationaux de France 2021

[beautifulstorms]

Best programs of 2018-2022, #19 (tie)

Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin, Primavera / Cry Me A River

[wanderlustinwonderland18]

Alexandra Stepanova & Ivan Bukin

2022 European Championships - Free Dance

[figureskatingbirds]

[aleksandra-ivan]

They're baaaaaaaack on ice. First show ✅

[figurelifeflirt]

2022 Euros entry #32

Free dance

Guignard/Fabbri(ITA)

Thoughts: I don’t know if this counts as a crescendo ending but I think that’s my main issue with this program.

Stepanova/Bukin

Thoughts: I think this is the first outfit from Alexandra in a while that I’m just not a fan of

Sinistina/Katsalapov(RUS)

Thoughts: well done. I also love what Victoria did with her hair.

2022 Ice Lab International entry #1

Junior women short program

Nikola Fomchenkova(LAT)

Thoughts: she took a minute to get used to her music. But to be fair, this is a difficult song.

[singharit]

favourite figure skating costumes └ alexandra stepanova / ivan bukin, moulin rouge ☆