Tag: Behind the Program

Behind the Program, Ep. 7: Hawayek and Baker, 2016-17 and 2017-18 Free Dance

by Jacquelyn Thayer 24 hours. That’s approximately how much time passed, after a troubled free dance performance at the 2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, before Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker seriously mulled the possibility of bringing back — or, rather,…

Behind the Program, Ep. 6: Manta and Johnson, 2016-17 Free Dance

by Jacquelyn Thayer In ice dance’s current sea of soft lyricals, a free dance with some grit is bound to stand out. And from a team whose last free showed a buoyant, vintage bent, the contrast is even more striking.…