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 […]
Have you ever desperately wanted to do your competition solo to that music? You know, the song that gives you goosebumps in the best way possible, sends your dancer’s heart soaring—and for those same reasons is pretty much guaranteed to be used by a million other comp kids? 3-time US national champion figure skater Ashley […]
Kilian Martin (Photo © Eric Hendrikx) The parallels between dance and ice skating are pretty undisputed. There’s a whole category in the Olympics devoted to ice dancing, after all—with choreographers from the dance world (*cough cough* Derek Hough *cough cough*) getting in on the action. Comparisons drawn between skateboarding and dance, on the other hand, […]