Tag: ice dancing

We Love the Olympics, But It's Missing One Sport

To say we’re pumped for the Winter Olympics is a definite understatement. We love watching cold-weather sports like bobsledding (Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme!), the terrifying-but-exhilarating art of ski jumping, figure skating (perhaps the most dance-centric event) and even more obscure options like curling. But that’s not the say the Olympics aren’t lacking in […]

This Former Ballet Kid Is Heading To The Olympics—And Is Expected To Win

One of the United States’ top hopes for medaling at the Olympics this month has a secret weapon: a serious ballet background. Figure skating champion Nathan Chen spent six years training at Ballet West as a kid. “The technique there was impeccable,” the 18-year-old said in a media teleconference last week. “To have had that […]

Please Enjoy This Beautiful Ice Dancing Video

Hi guys. Do you need a good reason to revisit a magical ice dancing video when it’s a gloomy January day, the holidays are over and you have to go back to school soon? If you do, then let’s just say this post about the January, 2016, free dance performance by European ice dancing champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron is […]

It's Time for a Face Off

You’ve just finished a performance that you’re extremely proud of—a Nationals-winning solo, your senior recital, your first time dancing Sugar Plum Fairy, etc. You can’t wait to get your hands on the performance photos, to see just how stellar you looked. But then, when you finally get them, they end up looking something like this: […]

Derek Hough, Ice-Dancing Choreographer

We are obviously partial to any Olympic sport with “dance” in its name—which means we’re always eager to watch ice dancing. First of all, ice dancers are beautiful movers and performers, which, yay. And despite the extreme difficulty of what they do, the fact that they don’t have to include any oh-my-god-please-don’t-die throws and jumps […]