Camerlengo and Krylova’s first senior team was U.S. national competitors Jennifer West- er and Daniil Barantsev. Ten, six-time Italian champions Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali began training at DSC. Singles skaters, including Japan’s Daisuke Takahashi, came to Camerlengo for choreography. In 2009, Canadian silver med- alists Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje moved to DSC.
After that, the school grew exponentially.
Skaters, including two-time U.S. champion Alis- sa Czisny, three-time U.S. champion Jeremy Ab- bott and countless others, flocked to Camerlengo for choreography. In 2011, French ice dancers Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat, who had worked with Camerlengo in Lyon, moved to Bloomfield Hills. Last season, the DSC team trained them to the World bronze medal. Te stable includes two reigning U.S. tit-
lists: novice champions Holly Moore and Dan- iel Klaber, and junior champions Alexandra Al- dridge and Daniel Eaton. In 2011, Camerlengo and Krylova teamed Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue, who won the 2012 U.S. bronze med- al and placed 10th at the 2012 World Figure Skating Championships. During the summer of 2012, some 18 ice dance teams trained at DSC. In addition to Camerlengo and Krylova,
students work with Scali, who retired from com- petition in 2011; five-time U.S. ice dance cham- pion Elizabeth (Liz) Punsalan, whose husband and partner Jerod Swallow is managing director at DSC; and Natalia Annenko-Deller, a winner of four European Championship medals compet- ing for the Soviet Union. “We really work, I would say, as a football
team,” Camerlengo said. “Everyone has his or her own role, and everyone has the goal to bring good results. Every coach works with every team. “I am not the only choreographer; Anjelika
works as a choreographer with our skaters, and so does Massimo. Natalia really focuses on the technique. She is very good for [teaching] the compulsories, the step sequences, the twizzles, and she gives our stroking and edge classes. Liz, she is so good at cleaning up the elements. She takes care of a lot of the details.” So, who is the boss? “I would say Anjelika,” Camerlengo said.
“She is very straightforward. She knows what she is looking for; she knows what she wants. Some-
times she says no; sometimes she says OK. “She is the one in the end, we all need to
get approval from. I don’t want to argue with her decisions. It is like, ‘the woman is always right.’ Sometimes I am really convinced about some- thing, and even if she disagrees, I go with my idea. Of course, I need to really be sure, because I don’t like to hear ‘I told you so.’”
Kieffer Hubbell, who trains at DSC with
partner Anastasia Olson, agreed. “Anjelika is the harshest critic of everything
you do,” he said. “She can say, ‘Tat works, that doesn’t.’ And I think that’s productive.” “She is very tough on us,” Eaton said. “She
can drill you in the technical aspect in every- thing, and then say, ‘You need to express more, you need to make your movements bigger.’” Krylova laughed at the descriptions, but ac-
knowledged they were accurate. “Maybe it is the Russian way,” Krylova said.
“I don’t want to hurt people, or add more pres- sure, but I really want to see the quality. I can say I am a perfectionist. “Sometimes skaters get tired, and they lose concentration. Our job is to keep them motivat- ed. It takes a lot of energy, but we all love the job. Not every good skater can be a good coach; it is
Some 18 ice dance teams trained at the Detroit Skating Club in the summer of 2012, from Canada, Australia, Italy, China and, of course, the U.S. The draw? Camerlengo’s group of five. “Working with a team of coaches is a huge plus,” said U.S. novice champion Holly Moore, 16. “Having a variety of ideas helps your programs’ choreography come together in ways that look so original.”
SKATING 19
Pasquale Camerlengo and wife Anjelika Krylova cherish their coaching careers together as well as being the parents of Stella and Tony.
PHOTOS BY JACQUE TIEGS
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