24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Two women are shattering a figure skating taboo by dancing, together
One night in late February, Madison Hubbell and Gabriella Papadakis, two Olympic gold medal ice dancers, glided into a skating exhibition in Zurich's 85-year-old Hallenstadion to shatter one of figure skating's great taboos by performing not with their longtime male partners but each other.
They held hands, locked eyes and twirled under a spotlight at the Swiss show Art on Ice. Their program, skated to Marius Bear's 'Not Loud Enough,' was short and simple, filled with parallel spins, gentle hugs and linked fingers. At one point, Papadakis leaped into Hubbell's arms, flinging her hand dramatically behind her head for several moments before dropping back to the ice.
