by Jacquelyn Thayer Figure skating is a distinctive breed of Olympic sport, where subjective preference is in regular conflict with objective measurement. This shapes its perception among viewers — read any fan discussion to see how even a skater’s technical scores can easily become a topic of heated debate — but just as much its…
Category: Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes, Dance, Feature, Ice Dance, Profile
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…
Behind the Scenes, Dance, Feature, Ice Dance, Profile
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…
Behind the Scenes, Feature, Ice Dance, Profile
Breens Draw from Experience in Guiding Performers
by Jacquelyn Thayer Interview originally conducted in January 2015. Since opening their Motion Arts physical therapy and conditioning office in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Veronique and Peter Breen have seen the typical woes faced by any facility working closely with high-level athletes—like the greater Detroit area’s bumper crop of elite figure skaters. “There’s always the last…
Behind the Scenes, Feature, Ice Dance
Swan Brings Dance Vision to Work with Virtue and Moir
by Jacquelyn Thayer For London, Ontario dance instructor and choreographer Jennifer Swan, the experience of watching two-time World and Olympic champion ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir compete the work she’s created with them can sometimes be as nerve-wracking as it is for any devoted skating fan. “It’s fun watching it,” she says. “I…
