#jennifer janse van rensburg

[allekha]

Jennifer Janse van Rensburg and Benjamin Steffan rocking out at Worlds 2024 practice

[vesperatio]

The hobbies skaters put in their ISU bios sound amazing read out by in-stadium announcers. "Carolane enjoys spending time with her dog, and Shane enjoys taking pictures of his dog" is just the latest of the greatest hits.

Also: "Jennifer enjoys jumping out of planes [...]. Benjamin enjoys backflipping and cherry pit spitting with his teammate." Comedy gold from some of the skaters.

The cherry on top back in the day would have been "Yuzuru Hanyu has no hobbies." (He really did put "nothing" in the form.)

[sunskate]

Ice Dance 2022-23 season

Molly Lanaghan/ Dmitre Razgulajevs (CAN): RD: FD: Micmacs à Tire-Larigot soundtrack by Raphaël Beau- Droit De Cité; Micmacs a la Gare, Saint Eustache, Larrons en Foire

Carolane Soucisse/Shane Firus (CAN): RD: FD: Nahko and Medicine For The People- Aloha Ke Akua

Natalie Taschlerova/Filip Taschler (CZE): RD: Shakira- Hips Don't Lie; Enrique Iglesius- Hero FD: Max Richter- On the Nature of Daylight; Ludovico Einaudi- Run; Jacob Shea, Jasha Klebe- Early Morning Fog (coaches: Matteo Zanni, Barbora Reznickova; choreo: Matteo Zanni)

Yuka Orihara/Juho Pirinen (FIN): RD: Cardi B.- I Like it Like That; Klaus Hallen Tanzorchester- Dancing with a Stranger; Instruction

Eleanor Hirst/Anthony Currie (GBR): RD: Gypsy Kings- Hotel California FD: Evita (coaches: ?)

Jennifer Janse van Rensburg/Benjamin Steffan (GER): RD: J Balvin, Pharrell Williams- Safari; Pentatonix- Havana; Reel 2 Real- Move It FD: Balazs Havasi- Prelude Age of Heroes (coaches: Rostislav Sinicyn, Natalia Karamyseva; choreo: Mariia Tumanovska-Chaiika)

Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri (ITA): RD: Grace Jones- This Is, I'm Crying; Monica Naranjo- Pantera en Libertad

Kana Muramoto/Daisuke Takahashi (JPN): RD: Conga, Rhythm is Gonna Get You, Ahora, Move FD: (choreo: Marina Zoueva, Ilia Tkachenko, Maxim Kozhevnikov, Sarry, 矢内康洋 Randi Strong)

Paulina Ramanauskaite/Deividas Kizala (LTU): RD: Celia Cruz- La Vida Es Un Carnaval; Perez Prado and Rosemary Clooney- Sway; Sergio Mendes- Magalenha FD: AC/DC- Highway to Hell; Gary Moore- Still Got the Blues; AC/DC- Demon Fire (coaches: Maurizio Margaglio, Neil Brown)

Oona Brown/Gage Brown (USA): RD: Imagine Dragons, Tony Evans and his Orchestra, Gnarls Barkley- Bones FD: Annie Lennox- Big Sky; Joe Bonamassa- No Good Place for the Lonely (coaches and choreo: Inese Bucevica, Joel Dear)

Lorraine McNamara/Anton Spirodinov (USA): RD: George Michael- Careless Whisper, arr. Hugo Chouinard FD: Ezio Bosso- Rain in Your Black Eyes (coaches: Alexei Kiliakov, Elena Novak, Jimmie Manners; choreo: Novak, Manners)

Eva Pate/Logan Bye (USA): RD: Rio- Barbatuques- Beautiful Creatures; Jamie Foxx- Fly Love; Rio singers- Real in Rio FD: Riverdance- Bill Whelan- Reel Around the Sun (coaches: Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Natalia Deller, Adrienne Lenda; choreo: Igor Shpilband, Pasquale Camerlengo, Renee Petkovski, Oksana Zolotarevskaya, Zachary Donohue)

[erinaonice]

jennifer janse van rensburg/benjamin steffan and milania väänänen/filippo clerici comedy royalty

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tanjaflade:

They've got rhythm! Rhythm Dance at Finlandia Trophy 2021. #eiskunstlauf #figureskate #figureskating #фигурноекатание

(10.10.2021)

[bex-pendragon]

Costume Trends of the 2021-22 Figure Skating Season

Green Dresses

As seen on:

Madison Chock USA

Olivia Smart ESP

Jennifer Janse Van Rensburg GER

Allison Reed LTU

Haley Sales CAN

Regina Schermann HUN

Karolina Bialas POL

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva RUS

Audreanne Foster CAN

Minerva Fabienne Hase GER

[figure-skating-watch-party]

Santa Claus Cup, Budapest

“Small” comps are pretty amazing. It feels kind of more familiar, there are usually more local skaters or skaters from the neighbouring countries (which is even more true now) and you can get surprised by many skaters you’ve maybe never seen before. 

And I was totally surprised by Julia Lang. Have never seen her before but I’ll certainly rewatch her SP to André Rieu’s And the waltz goes on many times. The timing of the jumps to the music, the original step sequence 😍

I’m also happy that I saw Nikola Rychtaříková’s Yo soy Maria FP again, I love it. There are so many Spanish/Latin/flamenco/tango programs but I think she does a good job at the interpretation. 

Then I watched Eliška Březinová and just realized how goood she looks on the ice. She’s dramatic in her Never tear us apart SP and then calmer, excluding positive energy in her La la land FP. (it’s just so ironic, imagine finishing third in the short, third in the free and ending up fourth overall...)

The most important message from men singles. Iker Oyarzábal. Spain. I repeat: Iker Oyarzábal from Spain made his senior debut! And he got the TES minimum for Europeans in his FP (exceeding it by more than 9 points) and almost almost got it in the short. Let’s hope there will be some other comps where he could try it again. He skated to trusted figure skating classics: You raise me up and Moonlinght sonata. And he’s so elegant. His spins are awesome. He was not that expressive but he’ll learn that (and he did a hydroblade ;) )

And another note. Czech skating is not only Michal Březina and the Bělohradský siblings but also Georgi Reshtenko (well he’s Russian but whatever ;) ) He looks like he’s skating with abandon and feels so free on the ice.

Ice dance

A thing happened... The competition took four days with ice dance on day 3 and 4. There were four very looooong videos on YT, one for every day. I watched day 3 with rhythm dances... and then when I wanted to watch free dance, the videos for day 3 and day 4 were gone. So I haven’t seen a single free dance... T_T But I’ve seen rhythm dance at least!

Rhythm dance! Only two senior teams but another Cabaret! I love, I collect them ;) Jennifer Janse van Rensburg / Benjamin Steffan. It was a really entertaining performance comparable with Popova/Mozgov’s interpretation. And then Lara Luft / Maxmilian Pfinsterer skating, very energetically, to Anything goes. 

Junior ice dance looked like France decided to hold French open national championships and managed to occuppy the first four spots - even without their two best junior teams. As usual, I liked all the dances. 

Perhaps I liked Eva Bernard/Tom Jochum and their RD to Michael Buble the most. They are doing a pretty crazy lift and ending with the twizzles. That seems to me like an act of courage. 

Louise Bordet/Thomas Gipoulou’s City of stars is just so nice. Nice to watch from the beginning to the end. And I also liked the tap dance sequences in the music incorporated into the program. 

I was a bit confused about Celina Fradji/Jean-Hans Forneaux, I thought they skated their last year’s RD (Singing in the rain) at test skates and now, suddenly, Blue Brothers. But not bad at all. They didn’t look particularly thrilled in the k&c though, so I’m a bit nervous about them. 

And I still got to see my beloved Singing in the rain! Because it’s Marie Dupayage/Thomas Nabais’ RD! And they showed quite a lot of personality in the dance, especially towards the end. 

And I enjoyed Corina and Patrick Huber’s New York, New York, too. When compared to the French teams, their level was noticeably lower, but if you are not a levels counting and scoring overanalyzing analyst you can enjoy the pretty costumes, enjoy how cute the dance is and just be happy. 

And the last one was another siblings team - Petra and Patrick Csikós and their A nice walk in the park with a pretty acrobatic straight line lift. 

The only thing I can say about free dance is: there were quite some changes. 

[figureskatingfanblog]

German National Championships

The German Nationals concluded today.

In the Men’s event, Paul Fentz came from behind to dominate the free skate and win his third National title. Jonathan Hess was third in both segments, but still won his first National medal, a silver. Thomas Stoll, the Overnight leader, was fifth in the free skate and fell to third, winning the bronze and his second National medal.

In the Ladies event, Nicole Schott dominated to win her fifty National by about forty points. Aya Hatakawa won her first National medal, the silver, and Kristina Isaev came up from fifth with the second-best free skate to win the bronze, also her first National medal.

In the Pairs event, there were only two teams. Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nolan Seegert won the event, while Annika Hocke and Robert Kunkel won the silver.

In the Ice Dance event, Katharina Mueller and Tim Dieck won their first National medal. Jennifer Janse van Rensburg and Benjamin Stefan won the silver, and Shari Noch and Christian Nuchtern won the bronze, their fourth National medal.

[sunskate]

Ice Dance Programs 2023-24

Misato Komatsubara/Tim Koleto 🇯🇵JPN RD: Ghostbusters FD: Loving You (from Passion) Barbara Streisand & Patrick Wilson; Love Grows (from Final Fantasy VIII) Nobuo Uematsu (choreo: Romain Haguenauer)

Azusa Tanaka/Shingo Nishiyama 🇯🇵JPN FD: choreo Romain Haguenauer

Nadiia Bashynska/Peter Beaumont 🇨🇦CAN RD: INXS, Never Tear Us Apart; Duran Duran, Wild Boys

Miku Makita/Tyler Gunara 🇨🇦CAN FD: choreo by Matthew Gates

Alicia Fabbri/Paul Ayer 🇨🇦CAN RD: AC/DC, choreo Zach Donohue FD: Lewis Capaldi, Someone You Loved

Sandrine Gauthier/Quentin Thieren 🇨🇦CAN RD: Joan Jett, I Love Rock n Roll

Emma Goodstadt/Christian Bennett 🇨🇦CAN (Jrs) RD: B-52’s, Love Shack

Hannah Lim/Ye Quan 🇰🇷KOR RD: Prince, When Doves Cry, Let's Go Crazy FD: Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik 🇺🇸USA RD and FD choreo: Benoit Richaud

Emily Bratti/Ian Somerville 🇺🇸USA RD: Prince, When Doves Cry, Let’s Go Crazy FD: Celine Dion, Ne Me Quitte Pas choreo by Greg Zuerlein, Charlie White, Tanith White

Eva Pate/Logan Bye 🇺🇸USA RD: Bobby Brown, My Prerogative; Run-DMC (feat. Aerosmith) Walk This Way

Katarina Wolfkostin/Dimitry Tsarevski 🇺🇸USA RD: When in Rome, The Promise; Blondie, Call Me

Isabella Flores/Ivan Desyatov 🇺🇸USA RD: Prince, When Doves Cry; Def Leppard, Pour Some Sugar on Me, choreo Massimo Scali FD: West Side Story, choreo Kaitlyn Weaver

Angela Ling/Caleb Wein 🇺🇸USA RD: Aretha Franklin, Hold on I'm Coming

Raffaella Koncius/Alexey Shchepetov 🇺🇸USA RD: Stray Cats, Rock this Town, Stray Cat Strut

Klara Kowar/Thomas Schwappach 🇺🇸USA RD: INXS, Never Tear Us Apart, What You Need FD: James Bond

Leah Neset/Artem Markelov 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Scorpions, Still Loving You; Joan Jett, Hate Myself for Loving You. choreo Kaitlyn Weaver FD: choreo Nikolai Morozov

Eliana Peal/Ethan Peal 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Janet Jackson, What Have You Done For Me Lately, Rhythm Nation FD: Lord of the Rings

Jenna Hauer/Benjaming Starr 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Tina Turner, Simply the Best (?)

Caroline Mullen/Brendan Mullen 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Wham!, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go; George Michael, Father Figure (?)

Yahli Pederson/Jeffrey Chen 🇺🇸USA (jrs) RD: Queen, Kind of Magic; Queen w David Bowie, Under Pressure (?)

Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud 🇫🇷FRA FD: choreo Guillaume Cizeron

Holly Harris/Jason Chan 🇦🇺AUS RD: Madonna (Material Girl, Express Yourself?), choreo: Marie-France Dubreuil FD: choreo Marie-France Dubreuil

Olivia Smart/Tim Dieck 🇪🇸ESP RD: Blondie, Call Me, Rapture

Sofia Val/Asaf Kazimov 🇪🇸ESP RD: Top Gun

Jennifer Janse van Rensburg/Benjamin Steffan 🇩🇪GER RD: Beds are Burning, Midnight Oil; Don't Leave Me Now, Supertramp; Runaway, Bon Jovi FD: wild west theme choreo: Pasquale Camerlengo for both

Phebe Bekker/James Hernandez 🇬🇧GBR RD: Prince FD: Muse

Layla Karnes/Liam Carr 🇬🇧GBR RD: Sweet Dreams, medley, Eurhythmics FD: Hit the Road Jack, 2WEI

Shira Ichilov/Dmitriy Kravchenko 🇮🇱ISR RD: Get Down on It, Yesterday, It's Raining Men FD: ("to a singer from Montreal") choreo: Pasquale Camerlengo, Igor Shpilband

Mariia Nosovitskaya/Misha Nosovytskyi 🇮🇱ISR RD: FD: Gladiator choreo: Pasquale Camerlengo, Igor Shpilband

Elizabeth Tkachenko/Alexei Kiliakov 🇮🇱ISR RD: Yello, Oh Yeah, Desire, The Race FD: Incantation, Ojo Azules; Inca the Peruvian Ensemble, Danzante Vasija del Barro; Inti-IllMani, Sikuriadas choreo: Elena Novak, Jimmie Manners

Yuka Orihara/Juho Pirinen 🇫🇮 FIN RD: choreo Luca Lanotte FD: music from Chicago choreo Massimo Scali

Carolane Soucisse/Shane Firus 🇮🇪IRL RD: Rick James, Super Freak, Give It To Me Baby, Mary Jane

Mariia Holubtsova/Kyryl Bielobrov 🇺🇦UKR RD: Bonnie Tyler, Holding Out For A Hero; Bonnie Tyler & Bryan Adams, Straight From the Heart; Bonnie Tyler & Desmond Child, If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) FD: Joe Hisaishi, Merry Go Round of Life, Fragile Dream, A Walk in the Skies choreo: Romain Haguenauer, Pascal Denis, Sam Chouinard

Zoe Larson/Andrii Kapran 🇺🇦UKR RD: Pointer Sisters, I'm So Excited; Grover Washington/Bill Withers, Just the Two of Us; The Weather Girls, It's Raining Men (?)

Adrienne Carhart/Oleksandr Kolosovskyi 🇦🇿AZE RD: Billy Ocean, Caribbean Queen

Maria Kazakova & Georgy Reviya 🇬🇪GEO RD: Queen, A Kind of Magic, Save Me, I Want To Break Free, Need Your Loving Tonight FD: Schindler's List choreo by Matteo Zanni

Natalie Taschlerova & Filip Taschler 🇨🇿CZE RD: Janet Jackson, The Knowledge; James Mtume, Juicy Fruit; The Pointer Sisters, Serious Slammin' FD: Negramaro, Bluecobalto; Havasi, Terra Rosa; Giuliano Sangiorgi, Son Felice choreo by Matteo Zanni