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Team Igor Shpilband & Pasquale Camerlengo

tulosai

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 21, 2011
I have toyed around with the idea of creating threads for certain ice dance coaches/groups in the past, but with the news that Ilinykh/Zhiganshin plan to go to Igor Shpilband I decided the time had finally come for me to give him and his group a thread of their own. Fabian Bourzat currently also works with Igor and with his group. Please feel free to share any news about him, his students, or his group here :cheer:

Igor's had a somewhat interesting life and career. He is the 1983 World Junior champion in ice dancing with former partner Tatiana Gladkova. In 1990 while on a skating tour in the USA he decided to defect from the Soviet Union and became a USA citizen 10 years later in 2000. His coaching history with (and ultimate split from) Marina Zoueva in Canton is well known, and he currently coaches several top teams of his own in Novi.

Biographical Information

Igor Shpilband Wikipedia

Articles and Interviews

Shpilband's influence felt across skating world (April 2014)

Current Students (all links to fan fests)

Madison Chock & Evan Bates
Penny Coomes & Nicholas Buckland
Elena Ilinykh & Ruslan Zhiganshin
Kavita Lorenz & Panagiotis Polizoakis
Isabella Tobias & Ilya Tkachenko
Pogrebinsky & Benoit
Lewis & Bye
Grosul & Colucci
Carreira & Ponomarenko
Abachkina & Thauron
Yura Min & Alex Gamelin
Payten Howland & Simon-Pierre Malette-Paquette

Former Students (all links to fan fests)

Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte
Meryl Davis & Charlie White
Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani
Nathalie Péchalat & Fabian Bourzat
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir
Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto
Lynn Kriengkrairut & Logan Giulietti-Schmitt
 
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katha

On the Ice
Joined
Jan 7, 2007
I'll always have some fondness for him for choreographing one of my fave FDs ever, Punsalan/Swallow's Oblivion. Of course, he only did it after what felt like thousands of years of dreary Latin FDs for them that probably ultimately contributed to souring judges on them :disapp:, and he kinda winged it as an emergency after their previous FD that season was a flop, far as I understand it. But nevertheless, IMO it's a masterpiece. It's a beautiful, poetic program with a clear vision, fitting the couple like a glove, not trying too hard at anything at all. Like breathing. :)

Punsalan/Swallow at the Olympics 1998:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPx7gs0_o4U
 

dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Country
United-States
He also did Davis and White's Samson and Delilah. (2009 FD) AFAIR
http://web.archive.org/web/20090616120018/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00006260.htm

And is 2010 co-choreographer for them.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100405093157/http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00006260.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68OsUDopjyQ

Igor's Wikipedia, which has a list of present and past students, with links to their Wikipedias and ISU bios.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Shpilband

I did not know that Igor's parents were Jewish.
 
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alithia

Final Flight
Joined
Jan 29, 2005
I'll always have some fondness for him for choreographing one of my fave FDs ever, Punsalan/Swallow's Oblivion. Of course, he only did it after what felt like thousands of years of dreary Latin FDs for them that probably ultimately contributed to souring judges on them :disapp:, and he kinda winged it as an emergency after their previous FD that season was a flop, far as I understand it. But nevertheless, IMO it's a masterpiece. It's a beautiful, poetic program with a clear vision, fitting the couple like a glove, not trying too hard at anything at all. Like breathing. :)

Punsalan/Swallow at the Olympics 1998:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPx7gs0_o4U

I love Oblivion...Do you remember the Elvis FD they had just right before..And then this gem!
 

humbaba

Final Flight
Joined
Jan 12, 2004
Team Shpilband also coaches a number of promising junior and novice teams, including Pogrebinsky/Benoit, Lewis/Bye and the baby team of Grosul/Colucci.
 

tulosai

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 21, 2011
Team Shpilband also coaches a number of promising junior and novice teams, including Pogrebinsky/Benoit, Lewis/Bye and the baby team of Grosul/Colucci.

Thank you I will add them! I actually did know about Lewis/Bye but I forgot :)
 

mom2cavs

Rinkside
Joined
Aug 9, 2014
He also has Mansour/Ceska and Guignard/Fabbri . Howland/MalettePaquette have ended their partnership and he is no longer at Novi.
 

uhh

Medalist
Joined
Nov 19, 2013
He also has Mansour/Ceska and Guignard/Fabbri . Howland/MalettePaquette have ended their partnership and he is no longer at Novi.

Isn't Fusar-Poli G/F primary coach? & Igor just acts as a consultant in the off season.
 

dorispulaski

Wicked Yankee Girl
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Country
United-States
Team Igor has more Olympians than any country :cheer:

so, of course will Team Marie-France, but it is still quite an achievement.
 

Sophie-Anna

Medalist
Joined
May 24, 2013
I didn't know where to put this exactly but I hope someone will know the answer here:
What was the illegal movement in Mansourova/Češka SD at the Europeans? I didn't have time to watch live and I only watched it now. And I am wondering what was the problem. Was it the lift? He wasn't holding her and she had her leg around his neck. But I don't know if that is illegal. Or was it an extended lift? (Is it even -2 deduction for extended lift?). Anything else?
 

chameleon

On the Ice
Joined
May 29, 2014
I didn't know where to put this exactly but I hope someone will know the answer here:
What was the illegal movement in Mansourova/Češka SD at the Europeans? I didn't have time to watch live and I only watched it now. And I am wondering what was the problem. Was it the lift? He wasn't holding her and she had her leg around his neck. But I don't know if that is illegal. Or was it an extended lift? (Is it even -2 deduction for extended lift?). Anything else?

I believe the way they messed up the twizzles was counted as an invalid element.
 

mom2cavs

Rinkside
Joined
Aug 9, 2014
Of the teams mentioned in the first post only 3 teams remain. Mansour/Ceska have broken up.
 
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