Articles & Interviews

Meet Juliana Sweeney-Baird

by Anne Calder IDC recently posted a guest article by American retired ice dance competitor Christopher Martin Davis:, titled Ice Dancing for Everyone: How Inclusive Skating is Expanding our Sport…

Dispatches from Beijing: Gilles & Poirier

By Lynn Rutherford | Photo by Melanie Heaney Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier compete in Beijing not only as reigning World ice dance medalists, but as Canada’s only legitimate medal…

Smart & Diaz: the Evolution of Zorro

by Anne Calder | Photos by Robin Ritoss What happens in an Olympic Season when your country has two elite ice dance teams, but only one spot for the Games?…

Min, Eaton pin Olympic hopes on Macklemore

by Lynn Rutherford | Photos by Daphne Backman When Daniel Eaton hit town for the Lake Placid Ice Dance International in Norwood, Massachusetts in August, he was ready to rock.…

Choreographer Spotlight: Jimmie Manners

Article & photos by Anne Calder Pictured: Manners with Lorraine McNamara & Anton Spiridonov Elena Novak and Alexei Kiliakov opened the Wheaton Ice Skating Academy in 2003. Seventeen years later,…

Neset & Markelov aim for the JGP

by Anne Calder Leah Neset and Artem Markelov began their separate figure skating journeys over 6,000 miles apart, she in Minot, North Dakota and he in Volgograd, Russia. After partnering…

Flores & Tsarevski shine in Nationals debut

by Anne Calder | Photo by Melanie Heaney Isabella Flores and Dimitry Tsarevski were six and five when they began their skating journeys in different Colorado cities. As  14 year-old…