Gracie Gold: East of Eden
These photos are all about encapsulating moments. Feelings. A particular state of mind. A meaningful gesture. A glance. An inside look.
Again: a moment.
We got inspired by so many of the photos taken by our photographer at 2022 Skate America, hence we decided to share some of them with you. Those particular photos that make you see (more), hear, feel – those photos telling us, and maybe telling you, a certain something.
What follows is a journey through emotions, through disciplines, through programs, through choreographies and music cuts. Some might see it as a puzzle, some as a maze – as if you were wandering through the alleys of a city.
It is all of the above – and, overall, a different kind of journey through 2022 Skate America.
We hope you enjoy it – for official placements and results, do check this link.
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: Intensity / Phantom of the Opera
Kaori Sakamoto: ritual pat on the back
Junhwan Cha: Smooth Criminal
Ekaterina Kurakova: Dreams and Balloons / Up
Haein Lee: (end of a beautiful) Storm
Liam Kapeikis: In love / Moulin Rouge
Madison Chock and Evan Bates: Let’s Dance
Kao Miura: A dance / Beauty and the Beast
Ahsun Yun: Rondo Capriccioso
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier: from Separate Ways to finding each other
Mihhail Selevko: Focus / Break My Baby
Rino Matsuike: Delicacy / Papa, Can You Hear Me?
Mariia Holubtsova and Kyryl Bielobrov: I’ll Keep Coming by Low Roar
Roman Sadovsky: Angels
Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps: Eyes that talk / Oblivion
Kaori Sakamoto: Heart on skates / Elastic Heart
Ilia Malinin: Euphoria of a free skate with a quad Axel
Isabeau Levito: Inviting / Una noche más
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: Intoxicating / Wanna Move?
Gracie Gold: Blue Rachmaninoff
Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker: Cuban Pete
Kaori Sakamoto: A breath / Rock With U
Koshiro Shimada: embodying Chaplin / City Memories
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier: Sign of Times
Carolane Soucisse and Shane Firus: Aloha Ke Akua
Wesley Chiu: Nella Fantasia
Valentina Plazas and Maximiliano Fernandez: Maria / West Side Story
Marilena Kitromilis: Mamma la rondinella
Sena Miyake: (the story of) Titanic
Nicole Schott: Iconic / Bohemian Rhapsody
Mihhail Selevko: What Could Have Been
Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac: Mambo
Ahsun Yun: (tree of) Experience
Greta Crafoord and John Crafoord: We’re in this together / In the end
Amber Glenn: Freedom / Hit the Road Jack
Junhwan Cha: No Time to Die
Letizia Roscher and Luis Schuster: Experience
Madison Chock and Evan Bates: (accompanied by the voice of) Jorane
Kaori Sakamoto: Empowering / Elastic Heart
Koshiro Shimada: Sing, Sing, Sing – and then be relieved, happy
Isabeau Levito: Dulcea şi tandra mea fiară / My Sweet and Tender Beast
Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps: the very definition of joy
Haein Lee: joyful, grateful fist in the air
Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker: Flying / Requiem & Sofia
Sena Miyake: Giving / Unchained Melody
Kaori Sakamoto: when she realizes she’s loved and admired by fellow skaters
Lorraine McNamara and Anton Spiridonov: Careless Whisper
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: Rhythm is Gonna Get You
Gracie Gold: the emotions of a much desired comeback
Holly Harris and Jason Chan: The Beat
Eliska Brezinova: Impeccable look while skating to The Mask of Zorro
Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier: Carried by the wind / Sign of Times
Kaori Sakamoto: Energy / Janet Jackson
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: These two / Christine and the Phantom
Ilia Malinin: I Put a Spell on You
Madison Chock and Evan Bates: Let’s Dance
Junhwan Cha: happy medalist
Wesley Chiu: (skating the life of) Vincent
Carolane Soucisse and Shane Firus: Perdiendo El Control
Deanna Stellato-Dudek: fierce Cleopatra
Donovan Carrillo: Georgia on My Mind
Madison Chock and Evan Bates: Lines and sparkles / Let’s Dance
Marie-Jade Lauriault and Romain Le Gac: Pink Panther and Inspector Clouseau
Ekaterina Kurakova: Can’t Help Falling in Love & A Little Less Conversation / Elvis Presley
Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker: Quizás, Quizás, Quizás
Isabeau Levito: Una noche más
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: Wanna Move? Then Move
Amber Glenn: Gratitude / Without You
Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps: (all about) Cleopatra
Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker: genuineness / a photo to frame
Women’s podium at Skate America: true selves
Madison Chock and Evan Bates: as if she were the ring
Isabeau Levito and Kaori Sakamoto: the much wanted selfie
Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi: Phantom of the Opera. A beauty of a photo, to fly into the world…
[photos by C. Nguyen at 2022 Skate America in Norwood
selection by Inside Skating]
STAY TUNED for (equally) gorgeous photos from 2022 Skate Canada