Recap: 2020 World Junior Championships
by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss Tallinn, Estonia hosted its second World Junior Championships March 2-8. Twenty-nine ice dance couples representing 22 ISU nations competed; 20 couples from…
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2019-2020 Event Recaps
A look back at Bavarian Open & Egna Dance Trophy
by Anne Calder The Bavarian Open (Oberstdorf, GER) and Egna Dance Trophy (Egna/Neumarkt, ITA) were competed the first week of February approximately 400 miles apart in Western Europe. THE BAVARIAN…
Recap: 2020 Four Continents Championships
by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss In 1999 the ISU established the Four Continents Championships(4CC) to allow figure skaters from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceana to compete…
Recap: 2020 U.S. Nationals Senior Dance
by Anne Calder Senior ice dancers took center stage for the Rhythm Dance at the 2020 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Greensboro, NC. Nine teams executed the five required elements…
Recap: 2020 U.S. Nationals Junior Dance
by Anne Calder | Photo by Daphne Backman The 2020 US National Figure Skating Championships are being competed this week in Greensboro, NC. The city previously hosted the event in…
Recap: 2019 Grand Prix Final
by Francesca Torino, Italy is famous among skating fans for being the set of the original dance Olympic event. The 2019-2020 GPF was far from dramatic but nonetheless saw some…
A look back at the first U.S. Dance Final
by Anne Calder “In the summer of 2017, [USFSA] President Sam Auxier established a Competitions Task Force with the goal of addressing a number of issues facing the current qualifying…
Recap: 2019 NHK Trophy
by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss The sixth 2019 Grand Prix Series event, the NHK Trophy, was held in Sapporo, Japan November 22-24. Nine ice dance teams from…
Recap: 2019 Rostelecom Cup
by Anne Calder | Photo by Julia Komarova The fifth event in the Grand Prix Series was held in Moscow, Russia from November 15-17, at the Megasport Sport Palace. Ten…
Recap: 2019 Cup of China
by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss Cup of China was held November 8-10 in Chongqing – a Yangtze River port city in southwest China. Ten couples representing five…
Recap: 2019 Internationaux de France
by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss The third Grand Prix Series event was held in Grenoble, France, from November 1-3. Eight countries were represented. Advertised as the “Capital…
Recap: 2019 Skate Canada
by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss The 2019 Skate Canada International was held in Kelowna, British Columbia October 25-27. The city also hosted the event in 2014. Ten…
Recap: 2019 Skate America
by Anne Calder | Photos by Daphne Backman Skate America – the first of six 2019 Grand Prix Series events – was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 18-20. The…
Recap: 2019 U.S. International Classic
by Anne Calder The third event in the ISU Challenger Series was held in Salt Lake City, UT USA. Nine teams from seven countries competed in the ice dance discipline.…