The Ice-Dance Version of a Ballroom
Beautiful ladies in elegant dresses dancing with gentlemen wearing military uniforms and dinner jackets...well, not quite. Waltz and Polka might be the compulsory rhythms of the season, but originality is the middle name of ice dance. So take everything you know about ballrooms and throw it out the ice rink, for the dancers' short program is about to start. Impressive costumes, but not much more for Federica Testa/Lukas Csolley from Slovakia. They get 44.73 points. As expressive as always, Charlene Guinard/Marco Fabbri deliver an enjoyable program. When it comes to costumes, the Italian couple pays attention to the smallest of details. Their score: 57.89 . S iobhan Heekin-Canedy/Dmitri Dun 's program is a bit dull, but not bad technically. They get 59.20 points. The first original approach of the day is Isabella Tobias/Deividas Stagniunas ' Oklahoma program. The twizzles were messy and they were too far away from each other in the polka sequence. As...