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…
ByTeam IDCReports 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…
ByTeam IDCReports 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…
ByTeam IDCBy 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…
ByTeam IDCBy 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…
ByTeam IDCby 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…
ByTeam IDCby 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…
ByTeam IDCby 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…
ByTeam IDCby 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…
ByTeam IDCby 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…
ByTeam IDCby 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,…
ByTeam IDCby Michelle Wojdyla Lesson learned this morning: do not stop to chat on the way to juvenile compulsory dance competition, because with only three teams and a packed schedule…
ByTeam IDCby Melanie Hoyt With their program to “Singin’ in the Rain,” Jennifer Wester and Daniil Barantsev danced their way to the top of the free dance standings and the…
ByTeam IDCby Melanie Hoyt Jennifer Wester and Daniil Barantsev won the original dance, but not without some difficulties. Their program, a hoedown to “Cotton-Eyed Joe,” carried good energy throughout, but…
ByTeam IDCby Melanie Hoyt The compulsory chosen for seniors was the Austrian Waltz. I’ve never seen this one live before, and I’m more enthusiastic about compulsory dances than most people…
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