Tag: ballet figure skating

The 2022 Beijing Olympic Games may have closed last week, but we’ve still got Olympic fever over here at Dance Spirit. That just makes sense, considering the many parallels that exist between dance and figure skating. After all, dancers’ jumps—like triple tours or straddle jumps—don’t look so different from skaters’ triple axels and split jumps. […]

Oh, hey, nothing to see here, just a dancer casually executing complicated figure skating moves in pointe shoes attached to skating blades. POINTE SHOES. ATTACHED TO SKATING BLADES. SHE IS SKATING ON POINTE. Is this real life? It is. Or it was, rather, a few decades ago, as evidenced by the jaw-dropping vintage footage of […]