Lubov Iliushechkina & Dylan Moscovitch - ret. in Jan. 2018

[Totentanz]

Pair skaters Lubov (Their ISU biography lists her first name as Lubov ) Iliushechkina (Russian: Любовь Ивановна Илюшечкина) & Dylan Moscovitch represent Canada. Iliushechkina was born 5 November 1991 in Moscow, Russia, while Moscovitch was born on September 23, 1984, in Toronto, Ontario.

Dylan Moscovitch pronounces his name (video by sabinfire):
https://youtu.be/lzyXvg556ig

Biographical Info​

ISU Bio
http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00015085.htm

Icenetwork bio
http://web.icenetwork.com/skaters/team/iliushechkina_moscovitch

Wikipedia
Lubov: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubov_Iliushechkina
Dylan: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Moscovitch

Social Media​

Lubov:
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ilyushechkinal
Vk: http://vk.com/ilyushechkinalubov
Instagram: https://instagram.com/lubov_ilyushechkina

Dylan:
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/DylanMoscovitch
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DylanMoscovitch
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/dylan.d.moscovitch?refsrc=https://www.facebook.com/dylan.d.moscovitch

Lubov & Dylan:
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/DylanLubov
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DylanLubov
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IlyushechkinaMoscovitch

May 2016 Update​

Personal Best Total Score	180.63		ISU GP NHK Trophy 2015
Personal Best Score Short Program	63.80		ISU GP NHK Trophy 2015
Personal Best Score Free Skating	117.70		ISU Four Continents Championships 2016

Programs​

2015-16
SP Since I've Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin
FS Adagio from Symphony No. 2 in E minor by Sergei Rachmaninov

2016 Worlds SP - video by Brau Avitia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5UOlYashg
2016 Worlds FS - video by 0316seisato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFOqA_lw1k

2016 Four Continents SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLFsqAXsA7c
2016 Four Continents FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbO4T1vvwGY

2016 Canadian Nationals SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMsJns7NC8k
2016 Canadian Nationals FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imx4e8Czxec

2015 NHK Trophy SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WXF9z7xPZE
2015 NHK Trophy FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzU1XsNXGng

2015 Cup of China SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D__5Cjh20E
2015 Cup of China FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84vCvAI_VPc

2015 Nepela Trophy SP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ_40BcGmsk
2015 Nepela Trophy FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pW8HNyO6I

2015 Skate Detroit FS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ttL8jQJNY

2014-15
SP Feeling Good performed by Michael Buble
FS From Russia with Love (soundtrack)

2015 Worlds SP Personal best SP 60.32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CC0mF7NpfU
2015 Worlds FS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shQHm2Iyc6M
Post SP Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzc2kMAd1F0

2015 Four Continents SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pnmrtd8y4
2015 Four Continents FS by sabinfire. Personal best FS 113.37 and total score 173.50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNj7RStO1dk

2015 Canadian Nationals SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DP2464EMF4
2015 Canadian Nationals FS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFvzS5aHQyY
Post FS Kiss and Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsZ3QVp7aJM

2014 Canadian Challenge Pierrefonds, Quebec SP
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2...vitch-senior-pairs-short-program-replay_sport
2014 Canadian Challenge Pierrefonds, Quebec FS
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2...covitch-senior-pair-free-program-replay_sport
Interview: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c0uri_luba-illyusheshkina-dylan-moscovitch-interview-replay_sport

2014 Warsaw Cup SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-J0yVn59c
2014 Warsaw Cup FS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAflLKTazmk

Competitive History

2016 World Championships - 8. 6. 7 (199.52)
2016 Four Continents Championships - 5. 5. 5 (179.67)
2016 Canadian Championships 3. 3. 3 (204.22)
2015 NHK Trophy 5. 6. 5 (180.63)
2015 Cup of China 7. 6. 7 (166.80)
2015 Ondrej Nepela Trophy 4. 4. 4 (169.04)
2015 World Championships 11 13. 13. (169.91)
2015 Four Continents Championships 6. 6 6. (173.50)
2015 Canadian Championships 2 2. 2 (187.85)
2014 Challenge Pierrefonds, Quebec 1. 1. 1. (187.74)
2014 Warsaw Cup 1 1 1 (163.02)


Previous Partners

Dylan and Kirsten Moore-Towers
2013 Skate America SP (Personal Best Score Short Program 71.51)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDUUCB4ZNU

Dylan and Kirsten Moore-Towers
2013 Skate America FS (Personal Best Total Score 208.45 and best FS 136.94)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psKJLdrJZlc

Dylan and Kyra Moscovitch
2008 Canadian Championships SP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6shLWlMuj6A

Dylan and Kyra Moscovitch
2008 Quebec Summer.Championships FS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgPCXOizPAg

Lubov and Nodari Maisuradze
2009 Cup of China SP Personal Best Score S P 62.54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpAflC-DWlI

Lubov and Nodari Maisuradze
2010 GPF Personal Best Score Free Skating 117.38 and Best Total Score 177.44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gDoekgNuTE

Lubov and Nodari Maisuradze
2008 JGPF SP (Nodari and Lubov won)
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZagHo8Rwwk
2008 JGPF FS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Ka_3KmY1A

Baby Pictures!!

Lubov and Nodari Maisuradze
2008 Golden Lynx Gala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM27sZPo9uI

Dylan as a singles skater.
His 2007 FS, which he helped choreograph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K40HzP3glA





Exhibitions

2016 Canadian Nationals EX. Feeling Good, performed by Michael Bublé; choreo. by David Wilson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_nZ28U3udU

2015 Canadian Nationals EX I Put a Spell on You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP1nH54mdjc


Golden Skate Articles and Threads

Jan. 2016 -Duhamel ‘frustrated’ after Short Program
http://www.goldenskate.com/2016/01/duhamel-radford-2/

Jan. 2016 -Duhamel and Radford win fifth consecutive National title
http://www.goldenskate.com/2016/01/duhamel-radford-3/

Slater, Paula (28 September 2015). "Ilyushechkina and Moscovitch set ‘bigger’ goals". Golden Skate.

2014-15 Thread discussing how Dylan & Lubov would match up.against his former partner and her new partner
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...-Dylan-Moscovitch-2015-Skate-Canada-Challenge

Dec. 2010 Interview "Moore-Towers and Moscovitch jump into spotlight"
http://www.goldenskate.com/2010/12/moore-towers-and-moscovitch-jump-into-spotlight/

Sept. 2008 Interview "Iliushechkina and Maisuradze: From ‘Hopeless Case’ to Top Contenders"
http://www.goldenskate.com/2008/09/...suradze-from-hopeless-case-to-top-contenders/

Other Articles and media

PJ Kwong interviews the team Jan. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laNRxmDguvQ

Virtue & Moir interview the team Jan. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UahNKzQT34

PJ Kwong asks the team fan questions Jan. 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQx0eV4s84

Jan. 2016 -Duhamel, Radford win fourth straight Canadian title

2015 Skating Lesson Interview with Lubov and Dylan
http://www.theskatinglesson.com/tsls-interview-with-luba-iliushechkina-dylan-moscovitch/

PJKwong 2015 Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUEtHxxP_4A

2015 Pre Canadian Nationals Fluff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-equZp8vajk

2015 A Day in the Life (entire interview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtAYOjdG9MY

Early 2014-15 season interview
http://www.skedline.com/sports/new-canadian-pair-is-feeling-good-despite-rocky-start/

Jan 2015-Report on Canadian nationals
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2015...el-radford-win-fourth-straight-canadian-title

Nov. 2014 Interview "Iliushechkina & Moscovitch in it for the long haul"
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2014/11/24/102320364/iliushechkina-moscovitch-in-it-for-the-long-haul

June 2014 "Veteran Canadian Pairs Skaters Find New Partners"
http://web.icenetwork.com/news/2014/06/03/78009016/veteran-canadian-pairs-skaters-find-new-partners

May 2012- "Lubov Iliushechkina wants to skate for France" [with Yannick Kocon]
http://fs66.ru/news/2012-05-17/chem...-soboj-i-prosit-francuzskoe-grazhdanstvo.html
Translation by quiqie of FSU:
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/ind...ove-2012-off-season.83356/page-7#post-3573095

2015 interview with Lubov's former coach "Vaytsekhovskaya's interview with Pavlova `Pairs skating is all about enduring' for sport-express.ru"
translation by TAHbKA of FSU
http://www.sport-express.ru/velena/reviews/53805/
http://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/ind...va-pairs-skating-is-all-about-enduring.94985/

Feb 2014 "Moscovitch seeking Sochi Gold"
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/sports/2014/02/04/moscovitch-seeking-sochi-gold

December 2011-Interview with Dylan
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/uncategorized/2011/12/23/skater-is-an

Skate Canada bio of.Kyra and Dylan, back when they were a pair
http://www.cbc.ca/m/sports/figureskating/kyra-moscovitch-dylan-moscovitch-1.759855

Original Post by Totentanz, Aug. 2014​

Luba and Dylan won the competition named Challenge Pierrefonds 2015 ahead of many great couples. It looks like this competition was held for qualifying to Canadian Nationals 2015. I hope they will be at 4CC and Worlds.

Their FS includes some really nice moments. They look very passionate and technically strong. Good job

SP video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2...vitch-senior-pairs-short-program-replay_sport
FS video: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2...covitch-senior-pair-free-program-replay_sport
Interview: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c0uri_luba-illyusheshkina-dylan-moscovitch-interview-replay_sport

 

[dress]

I love them. They are well suited to each other, and they have very good chemistry.

 

[dorispulaski]

From Dylan's twitter, the spelling is:
Lubov Iliushechkina and Dylan Moscovitch, so I am changing the title of the thread, guys, but they were just wonderful at Challenge!

 

[figuristka]

Love them too. Such good unison in such a short time and she has such a unique classical style which makes them interesting.

 

[lyndichee]

I hope that her triple jumps start becoming more consistent, I really want to see them succeed.

 

[Hyena]

Wow. I didn't know much about Lubov, but based on these videos she is something else.

 

[MIM]

I was not very interested in a pair skating, but curious about their new partnerships after MT/M's split.

I loved so much their both programs. Lubov is such a beautiful skater! Her graceful, classic moves, which affect Dylan's skating as well were just amazing. I never thought Dylan is a poised and classic skater before. He was a powerful and witty skater to me when he was with Kirsten. I see lots of promises from Dylan and Lubov. Looking forward to seeing them compete soon again!!

 

[anyanka]

Financially they've got some troubles, in that interview from a couple of months ago. Is there a way for us fans to help? How about a Kickstarter or other crowd-sourced funding program?

 

[nevergonnadance]

anyanka, Dylan lost most of his funding when his previous partnership ended and Lubov wasn't released by Russia to compete in Canada. Now that she has been, he is fully funded again at the senior international level - eighteen thousand dollars. She won't be funded until she has a different status, but I have not yet researched the details. Kirsten, for example, is also funded at eighteen thousand dollars, and Michael Marinaro has funding, but at a lesser amount, last I checked, based on his previous status.

Others know the particulars better, but at least Dylan himself is funded again. They also won approximately 6 thousand Canadian dollars for winning the Warsaw Cup. They're getting good publicity, so perhaps sooner rather than later they will get provincial funding as well, and sponsors too. Their previous struggles were because they were preparing to skate but were in limbo.

 

[anyanka]

anyanka, Dylan lost most of his funding when his previous partnership ended and Lubov wasn't released by Russia to compete in Canada. Now that she has been, he is fully funded again at the senior international level - eighteen thousand dollars. She won't be funded until she has a different status, but I have not yet researched the details. Kirsten, for example, is also funded at eighteen thousand dollars, and Michael Marinaro has funding, but at a lesser amount, last I checked, based on his previous status.

Others know the particulars better, but at least Dylan himself is funded again. They also won approximately 6 thousand Canadian dollars for winning the Warsaw Cup. They're getting good publicity, so perhaps sooner rather than later they will get provincial funding as well, and sponsors too. Their previous struggles were because they were preparing to skate but were in limbo.

Hi, I'm late in seeing this and replying. Thanks for posting this! Glad that they are getting some funding. I am hoping and expecting they will perform well at nationals, and attract new sponsors soon.

 

[anyanka]

Whoops, just posted the link to the TSL interview and it got moved here: http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...na-and-Dylan-Moscovitch&p=1050783#post1050783

Apologies folks, so many rules that are not top of mind for me and I put it in the wrong place!

 

[nevergonnadance]

I've spent time looking on youtube and it's not just Dylan Moscovitch's skating that has transformed; it's also Luba's. In her skating with Dylan she holds edges longer, extends positions to the music, has a much more natural rhythm and flow. Of course I hope they achieve everything they dream of achieving. It's so strange how it all came about, and how it seems to be evolving, and I'm very excited about Canadians.

 

[LisaM]

http://www.tsn.ca/video/a-new-challenge-for-moscovitch-and-iliushechkina-1.183579

A new video !

 

[CassAgain]

http://www.tsn.ca/video/a-new-challenge-for-moscovitch-and-iliushechkina-1.183579

A new video !

They are so appealing and have so much potential. I've never watched Canadian nationals, but I am going to be cheering hard for them next week.

 

[NanaPat]

Financially they've got some troubles, in that interview from a couple of months ago. Is there a way for us fans to help? How about a Kickstarter or other crowd-sourced funding program?

There is one now. I don't want to post a link, but if you google Mosovitch and CHCH, you'll find a CHCH News story about it with information.

 

[NanaPat]

There are a number of comments about this pair, and about Dylan and his other partnerships (including the first one, with his sister) on the Canadian Nationals pairs FS thread. Any of their fans who haven't yet read those should look there.

 

[Bumdid]

https://www.pursu.it/pursuit/campaign/102

Posting the link to their donation webpage. I'm not sure if someone has put this up yet.

 

[dress]

I like to see how strong Dylan is. His strenght impresses me every time, but what touches me even more is how soft and caring he seems with his partners.

 

[gabriele]

Wondering if someone has a link to their gala program at nationals or performed anywhere else for that matter. I've seen a still with Lubov in a steel blue leotard-type outfit (similar to Aliona's panther), but haven't found it yet.

 

[Totentanz]

I've just rewatched their skating from Canadian Nationals and fall in love with this team once again!! They have so much quality in their skating with really beautiful movements. Dylan can be the most successful male pairs skater when it comes to the lifts.