RS·Aug 22What I Noticed About Figure Skating When I Stopped Being the One TrainingI’ve been figure skating for years, so being at a rink is normal to me. I know what it feels like when your boots are too tight, when the…
Ayla Kerguiduff·Aug 14“Same gender, queer, ice skating made its debut in a crappy old rink in Coney Island in June of…Figure skating took the world by storm at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics earlier this year. Still, it was more recently on display at a…
Carina Moses·Aug 29, 2024Sasha Cohen’s Icy PatriotismSadly in our time, all too often diverse minorities, and women generally, are encouraged, rewarded, and incentivized both…
Carina Moses·Mar 9, 2024Spooky ice queenOne of the best programs in Yuna Kim’s notable career was her Danse Macabre solo. Other skaters, such as Oksana Baiul and Ashley Wagner…A response icon1A response icon1
Carina Moses·Mar 7, 2024Kwan’s Desdemona — Olympic Art at itThere’s something about the political correctness, depth of human and psychological insight, and literary richness of Shakespeare’s…
Carina Moses·Mar 7, 2024Carmen Amaya, on IceSasha Cohen’s Olympic homage to Romani culture is one of the greatest figure skating programs of her generation. Possibly in all of the…
Carina Moses·Mar 7, 2024Japanese Ballerina of IceThough figure skating started out as an intensely Western, largely ballet-inspired art form/sport, nowadays this beautiful sport has become…
Carina Moses·Mar 6, 2024Natalie Wood, of the IceIt’s a cliche by now, but “ West Side Story,” as with classic ballet (“ West Side Story Suite,” a ballet by Jerome Robbins, the original…
Carina Moses·Mar 4, 2024Juliet on FireSasha Cohen’s skating was always weirdly original; weird, because such a classical skater one would expect to be more stylistically…
