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. […]
There are plenty of current Olympic figure skaters who’d make beautiful dancers (first among them Adam Rippon, whose gorgeously choreographed long program won the internet, if not the gold). But today, as we wait for the women’s figure skating competition to crown its new champions, we wanted to throw it back to one of the […]
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 […]