Tag: ice dance

19. Tango, Pt. 2: Freestyle

For this second entry in our tango series, we’ll move away from the structure of the compulsory — Argentine and Romantica — tango and move ahead into its looser, choreographed free dance interpretations, along with a quick nod or two to the now-departed original dance. And as the dance proper goes, perhaps the most useful…

From the Archives: Pasquale Camerlengo

Pasquale Camerlengo with Angelika Krylova and long-time students Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje at the 2014 World Figure Skating Championships. (Photo by Chris McGrath for Getty Images AsiaPac) by Jacquelyn Thayer Continuing our cutting room floor series, these insights from Pasquale Camerlengo were captured during a June 2015 interview. As a competitive ice dancer in…

18. Tango, Pt. 1: The Compulsories

It’s lent its stylings to two senior compulsory patterns, arisen in five seasons for original dance usage — and once as a secondary short dance rhythm, one of those topics we’ll discuss at another time — and otherwise functioned as the focus of countless more free dances. Of all specific partner dances, none can be…

Wednesday Watch: Four Quicksteps

In the spirit of dance as a bit of joy in the midst of darkness, one traditional mood-lifting quickstep — and three in variation. 1. 2010 Blackpool British Professional Final, Quickstep Your standard-bearer. 2. “Ballroom Blitz,” Iveta Lukosiute and Nick Young (So You Think You Can Dance) In its later original-recipe seasons, So You Think…

17. Samba

Between next month’s Rio Olympics and the recent announcement of the 2016-17 season’s revisitation of the Latin short dance, it may finally be time to turn our eyes to that most complex of Latin dances: the samba. A quick look at its overall history is useful and highlights certain of its historical complexities. Note that…

From the Archives: Mark Pillay

by Jacquelyn Thayer Author’s Note: In summer 2015, I interviewed several top choreographers from the figure skating world for a feature in Dance International magazine’s Winter 2015 issue. Due to space limitations, some great insight was left on the cutting room floor — until now. In a new series, Moving in Measure delivers a closer…