Recap: 2020 NHK Trophy
by Anne Calder Osaka, Japan hosted the final competition in the shortened 2020 ISU Grand Prix Series November 27-29. It had the smallest number of participants (28), but the largest…
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Event Recaps
Recap: 2020 Rostelecom Cup
by Anne Calder The Rostelecom Cup held in Moscow, Russia from November 20-22 was the third event in the 2020 Grand Prix Series. Six of the ten competing couples represented…
Recap: 2020 Cup of China
by Anne Calder The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating’s Cup of China returned to Chongqing for the second straight year on November 6-8. Unfortunately due to Covid-19, many format…
Recap: 2020 Skate America
by Anne Calder | Photo by Robin Ritoss Skate America officially kicked off the 2020 Grand Prix Series of Figure Skating October 22-24 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas,…
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…
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…