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                                     Folk dance watchpost

Yes, the folk rhythm dance next season is not happening, we’ll see (fingers crossed) the repeat of this year’s theme (and probably all already existing programs). But let’s take a look at the folk dances anyway - in my opinion, it was one of the most interesting ideas for ice dance as it provided some great entertainment and, when done right, led to very memorable programs. (Although when done wrong it also led to some incredibly cringey moments.)

Folk happened first in 2008 and, after its big success, was brought back for the Olympic season in 2010.

2008

Delobel & Schoenfelder - Breton Gavotte

Virtue & Moir - Dark Eyes

Khokhlova & Novitski - Two Guitars

Belbin & Agosto - Cotton Eyed Joe

Faiella & Scali - Pizzica

Davis & White - Kalinka

Pechalat & Bourzat - Flamenco

Kerr & Kerr - Auld Lang Syne (one of my all time favorite ice dance programs)

Alexandra Zaretski & Roman Zaretski - Shich, Shack, Shock

Cappellini & Lanotte - Bubamara

Bobrova & Soloviev - Kalinka

Weaver & Poje - Road to Vladivostok 

Some programs from then-juniors:

Samuelson & Bates - Kalinka

Crone & Poirier - Blue Kerchief

Hubbell & Hubbell - Schuhplattler

Shibutani & Shibutani - Kobo music

2010

Virtue & Moir - Farrucas

Davis & White - Indian Folk Dance

Faiella & Scali - Tammurriata Nera

Domnina & Shabalin - Aboriginal Dance (I mean, let’s not forget this infamous program; today it woud probably get so much backlash they would’ve had to change it)

Delobel & Schoenfelder - Can Can

Pechalat & Bourzat - Thank God, I'm a country boy 

Kerr & Kerr - I've been everywhere

Zaretsky & Zaretsky - Hava Nagila

Crone & Poirier - Flamenco

Khokhlova & Novitski - Vdol po Piterskoi

Bobrova & Soloviev - Yablochko

Samuelson & Bates - Dixie Chicks Medley (pretty sure (actually not, I’m just joking:)) there was a competition for the shortest shorts in a country dance that year)

Hoffmann & Zavozin - Hungarian Folk Dance

Belbin & Agosto - Moldovanesca

Cappellini & Lanotte - Torna a Surriento

Reed & Reed - Japanese Folk Dance

Katelyn Goode & Nikolaj Sorenen - Danish Folk Dance

Weaver & Poje - Flamenco

Chock & Zuerlein - Afro-Cubal Dance (another dance that wouldn’t fly today - he’s a colonizer in it?)

Hubbell & Hubbell - Ukrainian Folk Dance

Coomes & Buckland - Irish Folk Dance

Juniors

Ilihykh & Katsalapov - Sikuriadas

Gilles & Donohue - Flamenco

Paul & Islam - Flamenco

Monko & Khaliavin - Ukrainian Folk Dance

So the thing about the ISU's vigorous recycling schedule is that most of the top teams have actually already competed the Finnstep. Everyone was younger and less experienced then of course, but it's still cool to look back and see a preview of next season. It's also fun to see how many of them were skating to musicals even when that wasn't required at all, because life is a cabaret I guess. Check out some sparkling Finnsteps and the just as sparkling hairpieces below!

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A look back at Kaetlyn’s career so far from 3rd at senior nationals at 15, her first senior grand prix win at 16 and national title at 17, to an individual Olympic medalist and world champion at 22!

2011-12 (Skate Canada Challenge win, 3rd at senior nationals)

Your Good Name/Ganesh SP

Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso FS

Interview after Skate Canada Challenge win

2012-13 (Nebelhorn win, Skate Canada win, first national title win, first worlds)

Latin SP

Carmen FS

Reach EX

Candyman EX

Interview after Nebelhorn win

Interview after Skate Canada win

Interview after nationals win

Meet Kaetlyn Osmond: 2013 World Figure Skating Championships spot

2013-14 (Second Skate Canada Challenge win, second national title win, first Olympics and Olympic team silver, second worlds)

Big Spender/Sweet Charity SP

Cleopatra FS

Somewhere Over The Rainbow EX

Mamma Knows Best EX

Interview after Skate Canada Challenge win

Interview after nationals win

Meet Kaetlyn Osmond 2013-14

Interview with team after team Olympic silver

2015-16 (Comeback season, Second Nebelhorn win, 3rd at nationals, didn’t make the worlds team)

La Vie En Rose SP

Astor Piazzolla Tango Medley FS

Human EX

Lovefool EX

Interview after Nebelhorn win

Interview after nationals bronze

2016-17 (Finlandia win, 2nd at both GP events, first GPF, third national title win, 2nd at worlds)

Edith Piaf SP

La Bohème FS

Wild Horses EX

Hallelujah EX

Interview after SCI silver

CBC “Roller coaster of a year” spot

Interview after nationals win

TSN “Sisters” spot

Feature after world silver

My Canada Skate Canada spot

2017-18 (ACI win, second Skate Canada win, 3rd at IDF, 3rd at GPF, 2nd at nationals, second Olympics, Olympic team gold, Olympic individual bronze, worlds win)

Edith Piaf SP

Black Swan FS

I Love It EX

Lost EX

Too Darn Hot EX

If It Makes You Happy EX

Interview after ACI win

Interview after Skate Canada win

Whisper Challenge

Interview after GPF bronze

CBC Fight to Heal and Skate Again mini doco

Interview with team after team Olympic gold, X

Interview after individual Olympic bronze

Interview after worlds win

Junior Programs

2009-10: SP Hey Pachuco, FS Pas de Deux

2010-11: SP Baliwood, FS Nessun dorma (the music for this is rly loud, be careful!)

2011-12: SP Grand Guignol, FS Flow like Water

2012-13: SP The Question of U, FS Liebestraume

Senior Programs

2013-14: SP The Question of U, FS Riverdance

2014-15: SP Juke, FS Tristan & Iseult

2015-16: SP Love is Blindness, FS The Piano

2016-17: SP Appassionata, SP Writing’s on the Wall, FS The Piano

2017-18: SP The Room Where It Happens, FS Inner Love, FS The Piano

2018-19: SP Love is a Bitch, FS Simon & Garfunkel Medley

Exhibitions

The Time of my Life (2010-2011)

A Drop in the Ocean (2011-2013)

U Can’t Touch This (2013-2014)

Cotton-Eyed Joe (2014-2015)

Hip Hop mix (2014-2016)

Canned Heat (2015-2017)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours (2016-2017)

Waving Through a Window (2017-2018)

Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte Watchpost

Competitive Programs

2006/2007: CD “Golden Waltz” || OD “Oblivion/Violentango” || FD “I’ve Got Rhythm”

2007/2008: CD “Yankee Polka”; CD “Argentine Tango” || OD “Bubamara” || FD “La Traviata”

2008/2009: CD “Viennese Waltz”; CD “Finnstep”; CD “Paso Doble” || OD “Bei Mir Bistu Shein” || FD “Love Story”

2009/2010: CD “Tango Romantica”; CD “Golden Waltz” || OD “Torna a Surriento/Tarantella” || FD “Requiem for a Dream”

2010/2011: SD “Que Sera Sera/Girls Girls Girls” || FD1 “Our Love is Easy/Goodnite”; FD2 “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”

2011/2012: SD “Volveras/El Chupacapra” || FD “La Strada”

2012/2013: SD “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” || FD “Carmen Suite”

2013/2014: SD “42nd Street” || FD “The Barber of Seville”

2014/2015: SD “Capriccio Espagnol” || FD “Danse Macabre”

2015/2016: SD “The Merry Widow” || FD “Fellini medley”

2016/2017: SD “Cry for Me/Choo Choo Boogie” || FD “Chaplin”

2017/2018: SD “Cha Cha Cha Kaboom/Skip to the Bip/1008 Samba” || FD “La Vita è Bella”

Exhibitions

2009/2010: Eres Todo En Mi

2011/2012: That’s Amore/Tu vuo’ fa’ l’Americano

2012/2013: Oblivion || I Was Here

2013: Resistance (with 2Cellos)

2013/2014: A Thousand Years || Pata Pata/Chupacapra

2014/2015: Fireflies

2015/2016: Dance of Hours

2016/2017: La Cumparsita

2017/2018: Chaplin

2018: Spiderman & Wonder Woman

Satoko Miyahara Watchpost

Short programs

11-12: Por Una Cabeza

12-13: The Swan

13-14: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

14-15: The Magic Flute

15-16: Firedance

16-17: Musetta’s Waltz

17-18: Memoirs Of A Geisha

Long programs

11-12: Mother Goose Suite

12-13: Romeo & Juliet / Adagio

13-14: Poeta

14-15: Miss Saigon

15-16: Un Sospiro

16-17: The Planets / Star Wars

17-18: Madama Butterfly

Exhibition programs

10-11: On The Town

11-12: Sympathique

12-13: Mambo

13-14: Solace

14-15: Let Her Go

14-15: Sing Sing Sing

15-16: Pennies From Heaven

15-16: Wings To Fly

16-17: Hernando’s Hideaway 

16-17: One More Try