Chock and Bates are my favorite ice dance team, and I'm super happy that they won the silver medal at the GPF and they beat H/D without any flukey errors. I think with the way things are going, they are going to win US Nationals over Hubbell and Donohue this year. The programs just aren't clicking for H/D and their scores are suffering as a result. I feel guilty every time I watch C/B free dance and enjoy it, because it is a mess of cultural appropriation, but it's so enjoyable??!! They go all-out when performing it, and the music is super captivating. Of course, Madison Chock gives all the face, and just draws you into the performance. I hate that I love it so much since it's so culturally insensitive and entertaining at the same time.
I'm curious as to what other changes H/D might make to their programs, or if they even have time to make significant changes before US Nationals.
Look, don't "woke" yourself into a life of banality. Dance and the arts should be about celebrating our differences, while appreciating the things that unite us.
On the track you're on, you'll soon be questioning non-Austrians waltzing, non-Argentinians doing a tango... and so on and so on.
I certainly don't think anyone should be dancing in blackface to Mammy, but give performers a little bit of benefit of the doubt.