The earliest ice dance events of summer — Lake Placid and its championship and international competitions, Minto Summer Skate and the Championnats québécois d’été, or Quebec Summer Championships — are, by near definition, starting points for the long September-March international stretch to come. And by this nature, scores are traditionally mixed at best: star competitors…
Tag: Quebec Summer Championships
Analysis, Competition, Feature, Ice Dance, On-Site Coverage
2015 Quebec Summer Championships: The Dancers
by Jacquelyn Thayer Though also well-represented in junior dance (discussed later), the senior dance event at the 2015 Quebec Summer Championships (Championnats québécois d’été 2015) in Pierrefonds was overwhelmed with entries from the Gadbois Centre — five of seven couples in each segment hailed from the school led by Dubreuil, Lauzon and Romain Haguenauer, and…
Analysis, Competition, Pairs
2015 Quebec Summer Championships: The Pairs
by Jacquelyn Thayer Though almost wholly comprising duos from the popular camp at CPA St. Leonard, led by coaches Bruno Marcotte and Richard Gauthier, the senior pairs event at the 2015 Quebec Summer Championships (Championnats québécois d’été) was particularly highlighted by a very strong season’s debut for Canadian bronze medalists — and World Junior silver…
Feature, Ice Dance, Interview
Poulin and Servant Embrace the Bright Side
by Jacquelyn Thayer In the first four years together, ice dancers Andréanne Poulin and Marc-André Servant took a sober-minded view towards their work–an “intense, super-serious” mentality, in their words, that accompanied a 2012 Canadian junior national title and two Junior Grand Prix medals. But after those initial successes, which also included a decent sixth-place showing…