Event Recaps

  Siobhan Karam & Kevin O’Keefe – “Notre Dame de Paris”In a dramatic program to music from the French musical, “Notre Dame de Paris,” Siobhan and Kevin showcased their capacity…

  Siobhan Karam & Kevin O’Keefe – “Lord of the Dance”This program made my week! It wasn’t perfectly executed and they made a few mistakes – for example, she came…

  Natalie Feigin & Jason Cusmariu – something FrenchNatalie & Jason’s free dance is highlighted by a very nice serpentine lift that features her in a tall Bielmann position, standing…

  Madison Chock & Greg Zuerlein – “Dark Eyes”I really enjoyed this team in Lake Placid, so I was thrilled to see them again. In just two weeks, I could…

  Reports by Karen Frank Intermediate Free Dance The team of Chelsey Jernberg and Michael Lueck opened the Freedance portion of the event with a modern Flamenco (Willie and Lobo…

Reports by Karen Frank Juvenile Free Dance The audience packed nearly every section of the bleachers on Friday morning for the Juvenile Freedance, proving that even though ice dance is…

  Reports by Karen Frank Juvenile Compulsory Dance All the teams entered in the Juvenile and Intermediate Dance in the Upper Great Lakes Region will advance to Junior Nationals (5…

  By Daphne Backman While I’m loving the live online coverage of Skate America by icenetwork, a high-speed internet connection is essential and today I found myself without one up…

  By Daphne Backman I attended the 2006 Skate America in Hartford and heading to Reading in 2007 was an original plan, but plans change. Instead, I chose to attend…

  by IDC rookie blogger D. Szabo Ok, my sister is the ice skating fanatic. I am not.  Don’t get me wrong. I really like skating. It’s just that I’m…

  by Michelle Wojdyla Fun With Math for the junior free dance. By the numbers (for the five teams who completed the event): Number of Grades of Execution awarded for…

  by Michelle Wojdyla Welcome to “new school” original dances. Hope you are good at math. For the top five teams after the compulsory dance, not one of them ranked…

  by Michelle Wojdyla It was a foregone conclusion that a hometown skater would capture gold in the intermediate dance competition. Both teams, Jennifer Stuart & David Lenz and Rose…

  by Michelle Wojdyla It is hard to know what to write for an intermediate compulsory dance competition that only had two teams, both of whom will be moving on…

  by Michelle Wojdyla Three juvenile dance teams. Three medals. Two gold. Huh? When Zoe Sakas & Christopher Larosa finished their free dance and saw their overall score (48.50) posted,…