Tag: Veronique Breen

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,…

Dancing Between Worlds: From Pointe to Blade

by Jacquelyn Thayer Elegant and agile, few images in skating are more celebrated than that of the ballerina on ice, the dancer on blades. It’s away from the spotlight that the magic is born — through nine hour training days,…