Season 2013/2014: New Programmes, Part 1
It's that time of the year again when after months of hibernation, the figure skating world is slowly waking up and giving us a preview of the next season. In less words, it's time for the skaters to announce their new programs. Let's start with the dancers, as they're the ones that must comply to the International Skating Union's rules when it comes to choosing their programs. This year the mandatory pattern for the short program is the Finnstep dance, which was first performed at the 1995 European Championships. As for the long, let's see what the skaters have come up with: Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir - the Canadians have chosen two famous names and three equally famous songs for their Finnstep Short Program: Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's Dream a Little Dream of Me, Muskrat Ramble, Cheek to Cheek . For the long, they seem to be following the same pattern as four years ago and gambling everything on classic music. This time, they'll ska...