“ facial expressions are real, raw and authentic and it comes from her gut.
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“I would love to work with that couple,” Cheryl Burke, professional dancer and choreographer on Dancing With the Stars tells TIME after watching the event. They definitely made an impression, however, even among non-skaters. But it wasn’t enough to keep them on the podium, and they finished fourth overall.
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They couple set a personal best score in the free dance of 130.63, besting their previous personal best set days earlier in the team event in Beijing. While the concept was a risk in an Olympic year, it proved to be worth it. “I feel like we have a strong identity in the sport as a team who will push the boundaries creatively, and who are not afraid to take chances,” said Bates. So we thought we need to keep being different.”Ĭhock and Bates are establishing themselves as the team at the artistic edge of ice dancing. “We knew the Russians probably would do something classical, and Gabby and Guillaume already had music with piano. “After doing the snake program, we couldn’t go back to something very classical,” she said. “ has the power to transform and really play a role, and make you forget who you are watching.”ĭubreuil especially liked the idea of having a program that would distinguish Chock and Bates from the rest of the teams in the last group of top finishers. “With them, I’m not afraid to go deep imagining and creating stuff that I wouldn’t create for anyone else,” she said. “It’s important for us to have that message behind our program every season, and especially in the Olympic season when we feel we have the opportunity to share our creating and inspire others around the world.”ĭubreuil said that Chock and Bates allow her imagination run wild when it comes to choreographing their programs. “Our program is deeply rooted in the message of accepting and finding love with someone who is different than you,” Chock told TIME. Only an intergalactic love story could follow the team’s memorable program last year, when Chock played a snake. Chock played the role of an alien, in a tale of universal love to Bates’ astronaut, and their lifts and synchrony on the all-important twizzle turns were truly out of this world. With newly crowned Olympic men’s champion Nathan Chen cheering them on, Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates were the first of the top four ice dance teams to skate. By doing this, I feel like I am developing everybody at their best level, and then it’s the judges who have to decide which style or flavor they prefer. When you have a sport that has a certain art form, it’s important to develop individuality. “So something that I work with for the French team might not be possible for when I work with Maddie and Zach, who have a completely different style. “We do our best to develop each team individually with their own personality,” Dubreuil told TIME prior to the Games. READ MORE: Inside the School Where the Best Olympic Ice Dance Teams Train But Dubreuil and Lauzon stress the benefits of friendly rivalry-rather than the jealousy and selfishness that can turn the competitive spirit toxic. It’s unusual in figure skating for so many teams who compete against each other throughout the season to train together-and share coaches, choreographers and trade secrets. teams also train at the Academy, a testament to the inclusive and motivating atmosphere created by co-founders and husband-wife team of Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon and Romain Haguenauer. “That was a pretty important shift.”Īll three of the top U.S. “This year we gathered the courage to want to win,” Cizeron said.
The French firmly established themselves as the best in their sport on Saturday, their rhythm dance established a world record.
The Russian team of Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won silver. The French team of Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, who train at I.AM, decisively won gold, improving on their silver medal finish four years ago in Pyeongchang, while the American team of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, who also train at I.AM, won bronze.
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