Robin Cousins' Choreography and Music for Himself

Amateur competitive programs are dated by the year of the World Championships in which they were skated, and would have debuted the previous autumn.

Abbreviations: SP=Short Program; LP=Long Program; TP=Technical Program; AP=Artistic Program; CP= Competitive Program (for one-routine pro competitions); World Pros or Landover=World Professional Championships in Landover, Maryland in December; Star Spangled Ice=annual July benefit show in Blue Jay, California started by Robin in 1987; BBC=British TV; CBC and CTV=Canadian TV; NHK=Japanese TV; NBC, CBS, ABC, HBO, TBS, and ESPN=US TV

Robin Cousins' Choreography For Himself

My Way photos

• Date: January 30, 2000
• Composer: Claude Francois
• Performer: Frank Sinatra
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice in England
• Notes: Robin's farewell performance on the ice, skated one time only, at the end of his final show, and dedicated to his father, Fred.

Yesterday photos

• Date: January 6, 2000
• Composer: Lennon/McCartney
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice in England
• Notes: Part of a Beatles production number, which also included Robin in the finale to Get Back.

Cantaloupe Island photos

• Date: January 6, 2000
• Composer: Herbie Hancock
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice in England
• Notes: Funky version, performed with microphones on Robin's skates, so that skate noises accompanied the music.

Lord of the Dance finale photos

• Date: January 6, 2000
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice in England
• Notes: Finale to the show.

I Cried photos

• Date: December 2, 1999
• Composer: Joey McIntyre
• Performer: Joey McIntyre
• Skated in: Improv-Ice
• TV: USA December 2 and 4, 1999
• Notes: Skated to a live performance by Joey McIntyre

Mr. Bojangles

• Date: November 20, 1999
• Composer: Jerry Jeff Walker
• Performer: Ben Vereen
• Skated in: Starskates on Broadway
• TV: NBC November 28, 1999
• Notes: Skated to a live performance by Ben Vereen

Whenever Wherever Whatever photos

• Date: January 31, 1999
• Composer: Maxwell
• Performer: Maxwell
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice UK tour 1999, Cleveland Skating Club May 1999 annual show
• Notes: Live recording of the song

Reflection from Mulan (violin instrumental) photos

• Date: January 31, 1999
• Composer: Matthew Wilder arr. Vanessa-Mae
• Performer: Vanessa-Mae
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice UK tour 1999

Born to Hand Jive from Grease photos

• Date: January 31, 1999
• Composer: Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice UK tour 1999
• Notes: Performed with the Holiday on Ice company as part of a Grease production number

Dancin' Fool photos

• Date: January 31, 1999
• Composer: Barry Manilow
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice UK tour 1999
• Notes: Performed with the Holiday on Ice company as part of the show's finale

I'll Cover You (Act 2 version) from Rent photos

• Date: October 6, 1998
• Composer: Jonathan Larson
• Performer: Jesse L. Martin
• Skated in: A Skaters' Tribute to Broadway
• TV: ESPN

All I Care About from Chicago photos

• Date: October 6, 1998
• Composer: John Kander
• Performer: Alan Thicke
• Skated in: A Skaters' Tribute to Broadway
• TV: ESPN
• Notes: Performed with Alan Thicke singing live on hockey skates

Theme from Il Postino photos

• Date: January 29, 1998
• Composer: Luis Bacalov
• Performer: Itzhak Perlman with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
• Skated in: Skaters' Tribute to Hollywood, One Last Time (Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini's farewell show, 1998), and Holiday on Ice, England, January 2000
• TV: ESPN (Skaters' Tribute to Hollywood)

Chariots of Fire photos

• Date: January 29, 1998
• Composer: Vangelis
• Skated in: Skaters' Tribute to Hollywood
• TV: ESPN
• Notes: Skated with Peggy Fleming

This Is The Moment from Jekyll & Hyde

• Date: October 14, 1997
• Composer: Frank Wildhorn
• Performer: Robert Cuccioli and Robert Evans (alternate performances)
• Skated in: Rockefeller Center rink opening show (two performances)
• Notes: Skated to live performances by the Broadway star and alternate of Jekyll & Hyde

Ain't That A Kick in the Head photos

• Date: September 20, 1997
• Composer: James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn
• Performer: Dean Martin
• Skated in: 1997 Legends Pro Competition, Little Rock, AR, and the British Children in Need telethon, November 20, 1998
• TV: ESPN Legends, BBC TV during the Children in Need telethon, November 20, 1998

The Way We Were photos

• Date: September 20, 1997
• Composer: Marvin Hamlisch
• Skated in: 1997 Legends Pro Competition, Little Rock, AR
• TV: ESPN
• Notes: Instrumental version

They Can't Take That Away From Me photos

• Date: August 16, 1997
• Composer: George Gershwin
• Performer: Robin Cousins
• Skated in: A Skater's Tribute to Carlo Fassi
• TV: ESPN
• Notes: With apologies to Ira Gershwin, Robin wrote new lyrics to tailor this song as a tribute to his late coach. The Associated Press review of the show includes some of the new lyrics.

Dancing in the Dark from The Band Wagon photos

• Date: July 5, 1997
• Composer: Arthur Schwartz
• Performer: soundtrack (instrumental version)
• Skated in: '97 Star Spangled Ice

Seven Little Foys photos

• Date: July 1996
• Skated in: '96 Star Spangled Ice
• Notes: Collaboration with Phillip Mills, who did the choreography for the seven children in the number.

Let Me Be Your Wings

• Date: December 1995
• Composer: Barry Manilow
• Skated in: Cinderella (British pantomime) Dec.-Feb.1995-6 and 1996-7
• Notes: Skated on plastic ice as part of the storyline in this uniquely British type of show.

Pourquoi Me Reveiller? from Werther photo

• Date: December 1995
• Composer: Jules Massenet
• Performer: Roberto Alagna
• Skated in: 1995 Challenge of Champions EX, London
• TV: ABC Challenge of Champions EX

Falling In Love With You Again photos

• Date: November 1995
• Composer: Cullen & Baker
• Performer: Gerard Casey
• Skated in: Skates of Gold III, '95 Challenge of Champions, '96 Star Spangled Ice
• TV: ABC Skates of Gold III and Challenge of Champions
• Notes: Also available on video from the Blue Jay Ice Castle from Star Spangled Ice

The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha

• Date: December 1994
• Composer: Mitch Leigh
• Performer: Luther Vandross
• Skated in: 1994 World Team Championship AP
• TV: CBS, Sky Sports (UK)

Satan's Li'l Lamb photos

• Date: September 1994
• Composer: Harold Arlen
• Performer: Sam Harris
• Skated in: 1994 Elvis Tour, '94 North American Open AP, '94 Canadian Pros AP
• TV: CBS NA Open and Canadian Pros, CTV Canadian Pros and Elvis Tour

Alone photos

• Date: September 1994
• Composer: Kenny G
• Performer: Kenny G
• Skated in: 1994 Elvis Tour, '94 North American Open TP, '94 Canadian Pros TP, '94 World Team Championship TP
• TV: CBS '94 World Team, TBS Elvis Tour

On The Frozen Pond (Poem) photos

• Date: May 15, 1993
• Composer: Incidental music by Judd Miller
• Performer: Robin Cousins
• Skated in: Skate for Life '93, Skates of Gold I, '93 Landover AP, '93 Challenge of Champions EX
• TV: BBC Skate for Life, ABC Skates of Gold I, NBC '93 Landover
• Notes: Wordsworth poem (a section of The Prelude) spoken by Robin, with incidental music

The Lord's Prayer

• Date: December 1992
• Skated in: '92 Santa Rosa show
• Notes: Special request of show producer Charles M. Schulz

Come Rain or Come Shine

• Date: August 1992
• Composer: Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer
• Performer: Della Reese
• Skated in: The Best of Torvill & Dean tour (UK '92)
• Notes: Not included in BBC broadcast of tour

Walking Funny from City Slickers photo

• Date: August 1992
• Composer: Marc Shaiman
• Skated in: The Best of Torvill & Dean tour (UK '92)
• Notes: Not included in BBC broadcast of tour

Stepping Out

• Date: July 1992
• Composer: John Kander
• Skated in: '92 Star Spangled Ice, The Best of Torvill & Dean tour (UK '92)
• Notes: Not included in BBC broadcast of tour

Story of the Blues

• Date: 1992 (planned)
• Composer: Gary Moore
• Performer: Gary Moore
• Notes: Intended for The Best of Torvill & Dean tour (UK '92). Probably never performed.

Pure Imagination

• Date: July 1992
• Composer: Anthony Newley
• Performer: Michael Feinstein
• Skated in: '92 Star Spangled Ice
• Notes: Part of a Pure Imagination production, included jumping while blindfolded.

Angels on Your Pillow

• Date: July 1992
• Composer: Peggy Lee, Paul Horner
• Performer: Michael Feinstein
• Skated in: '92 Star Spangled Ice
• Notes: Part of a Pure Imagination production.

12th Street Rag

• Date: December 1991
• Composer: E. Bowman
• Performer: The Colorado Springs Symphony
• Skated in: 1991 Broadmoor Christmas Pops
• Notes: Live symphony performance

Blue Serenade photos

• Date: December 1991
• Composer: Tim Hauser & Van Dyke Parks
• Performer: Manhattan Transfer
• Skated in: '91 Landover AP, '91 Santa Rosa Christmas show, '92 World Cup Champions on Ice tour, '92 Skater's Championship in Cincinnati EX
• TV: NBC '91 Landover
• Notes: Scored a perfect 50.0 for Artistic at Landover

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18, Adagio sostenuto photos

• Date: December 1991
• Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov
• Performer: San Francisco Symphony
• Skated in: '91 Landover TP, '91 Santa Rosa Christmas show, '92 World Cup Champions on Ice tour, '92 Skater's Championship in Cincinnati TP, '93 Challenge of Champions competition
• TV: NBC '91 Landover, CBS '92 Skater's Championship, ABC '93 Challenge of Champions

Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra photo

• Date: October 1991
• Composer: Michael Kamen
• Performer: David Sanborn and the National Philharmonic Orchestra
• Skated in: Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular
• Notes: An unusual number performed with Kitty and Peter Carruthers and the gymnasts in the show. Not shown by NBC. Gymnastics choreography by Paul Ziert.

Strike It Up photos

• Date: October 1991
• Skated in: Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular
• TV: NBC
• Notes: Skated with gymnasts Dianne Durham and Wendy Hilliard on floor

Race to the Finish

• Date: October 1991
• Composer: Vangelis
• Performer: Vangelis
• Skated in: Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular
• TV: NBC
• Notes: Performed by the skating and gymnastics Olympians in the show. Gymnastics choreography by Paul Ziert.

Busy Being Blue photos, another photo

• Date: July 1991
• Composer: k.d. lang
• Performer: k.d. lang
• Skated in: '91 Star Spangled Ice, '91 Skating and Gymnastics Spectacular, '91 Challenge of Champions, '92 Skater's Championship in Cincinnati AP, Best of Torvill & Dean Tour 1992, Skate The Dream 1992, '93 Landover TP, '97 Legends Pro Competition, One Last Time (Barbara Underhill & Paul Martini's farewell show) 1998
• TV: '92 Skater's Championship CBS, Skate The Dream CTV, '93 Landover NBC , '97 Legends Pro Competition, CTV Sportsnet One Last Time 1998

Recipe For Love

• Date: July 1991
• Composer: Harry Connick Jr.
• Performer: Harry Connick Jr.
• Skated in: '91 Star Spangled Ice

You Really Got Me photos

• Date: December 1990
• Composer: R. Davies
• Performer: London Symphony Orchestra
• Skated in: '90 Landover TP, '91 Challenge of Champions CP
• TV: '91 Challenge of Champions ABC
• Notes: The original choreography of this number included six consecutive spins--camel, sit, and crossfoot--each done in both directions. NBC did not show the '90 Landover version, and other countries apparently did not air it either. The choreography changed significantly for the 1991 version.

Sixteen Tons

• Date: December 1990
• Composer: Travis
• Skated in: HBO special
• TV: HBO
• Notes: Taped in Lake Placid, NY

First Approach

• Date: December 1990
• Composer: Vangelis
• Performer: Vangelis
• Skated in: '90 Challenge of Champions EX
• TV: ABC

Barcelona

• Date: December 1990
• Composer: Freddy Mercury and Mike Moran
• Performer: Freddy Mercury and Montserrat Caballe
• Skated in: '90 Challenge of Champions CP
• TV: ABC

Joy To The World

• Date: December 1990
• Composer: Handel/Watts
• Skated in: Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting
• TV: New York City NBC affiliate

March of the Wooden Soldiers

• Date: 1990
• Composer: Victor Herbert
• Skated in: Disney's Christmas on Ice special
• TV: CBS
• Notes: Performed with TV cast

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah/Give A Little Whistle/When You Wish Upon A Star

• Date: 1990
• Composer: Gilbert, Wrubel/Washington, Harline/Washington, Harline
• Skated in: Disney's Christmas on Ice special
• TV: CBS
• Notes: Skated on outdoor rink at Squaw Valley, California

Rawhide/Western number photos

• Date: September 1990
• Skated in: '90 Symphony of Sports (Skating and Gymnastics)
• TV: NBC
• Notes: Performed by Robin on the ice (mainly) and Bart Conner and gymnasts off-ice, including synchronized back flips by Robin and Bart. Gymnastics choreography by Paul Ziert.

When Something Is Wrong With My Baby photos

• Date: September 1990
• Composer: Issac Hayes and David Porter
• Performer: Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville
• Skated in: '90 Symphony of Sports (skating and gymnastics)
• TV: NBC
• Notes: Performed with gymnast Dianne Durham on ice and floor. Gymnastics choreography by Paul Ziert.

1000 Airplanes On The Roof photos

• Skater: Robin, Terry Pagano & Tony Paul on ice, gymnasts on floor
• Date: 1990
• Composer: Philip Glass
• Performer: Philip Glass
• Skated in: 1990 Symphony of Sports (skating and gymnastics)
• TV: ABC
• Notes: Robin invented a "human rotisserie" to allow Terry to do midair gymastics on a sort of portable bar apparatus while he and Tony carried her. Paul Ziert did the gymnastics choreography.

Cinderella On (with) Ice

• Date: July 1990
• Composer: Richard Rodgers
• Performer: Robin Cousins and cast
• Skated in: A production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical Cinderella at the Muny Theater in St. Louis, Missouri
• Notes: Choreographed all the skating in this show, which was done mostly on stage but worked a small rink at the front of the stage into some of the scenes. Robin played the Prince and Cinderella was played by singer/actress/former skater Rachelle Ottley, with a mix of skaters and non-skating actors such as Nancy Dussault, Adolph Green, and Phyllis Newman in the cast .

Serenade In Blue

• Date: July 1990
• Composer: George Gershwin
• Performer: Robin Cousins
• Skated in: '90 Star Spangled Ice, '90 HBO special
• TV: HBO

My One and Only (overture?) photo

• Date: December 1989
• Composer: George Gershwin
• Skated in: 1989 World Cup Figure Skating Championship in Ottawa, Ontario TP

Adagio For Strings photos

• Date: November 1989
• Composer: Samuel Barber
• Performer: The Colorado Symphony Orchestra
• Skated in: Elegance On Ice benefit show in Denver
• Notes: Skated with Blumberg & Seibert, this was an expansion of Blumberg & Seibert's version of Adagio for Strings.

The Nutcracker photos Katherine Healy, Underhill & Martini
(photos of Underhill & Martini from other programs)

• Date: November 1989
• Composer: Tchaikovsky
• Performer: The Colorado Symphony Orchestra
• Skated in: Elegance On Ice benefit show in Denver
• Notes: A production with Katherine Healy, Barbara Underhill, and Paul Martini.

Phantom of the Opera photos

• Date: November 1989
• Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Performer: The Colorado Symphony Orchestra
• Skated in: Elegance On Ice benefit show in Denver
• Notes: A production with Rosalynn Sumners (photos of Rosalynn Sumners from other programs), Judy Blumberg, and Michael Seibert.

Ave Maria photo

• Date: November 1989
• Composer: Bach-Gounod
• Performer: The Colorado Symphony Orchestra
• Skated in: Elegance On Ice benefit show in Denver
• Notes: Duet with Robin on the ice and ballerina Katherine Healy on the floor.

Cocoon: The Return

• Date: 1989
• Composer: James Horner
• Skated in: Ice Stars' Hollywood Review
• TV: CBS
• Notes: Robin's second tribute to his idol, Gene Kelly.

Mr. Monotony dance from Jerome Robbins' Broadway photos, another photo with Cindy Stuart

• Date: July 1989
• Composer: Irving Berlin
• Skated in: '89 Star Spangled Ice and '90 Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) New Year's Gala with Garnet Ostermeier Fiordalisi, '92 Santa Rosa Christmas show, Skate For Life (Birmingham, England 1993), StarSkates on Broadway '99 and Improv-Ice '99 with Cindy Stuart
• TV: German TV ('90 G-P), BBC (Skate for Life), NBC (StarSkates on Broadway)
• Notes: Duet

Heat Wave

• Date: 1989
• Skated in: '89 Symphony of Sports (skating and gymnastics)
• TV: ABC
• Notes: Duet, skated with gymnast Marcia Frederick on the floor. Gymnastics choreography by Paul Ziert.

Lean On Me

• Date: 1989
• Composer: B. Withers
• Performer: Thelma Houston and the Winans
• Skated in: '89 Symphony of Sports (skating and gymnastics), '89 Star Spangled Ice
• TV: ABC
• Notes: Duet, skated with ballerina Katherine Healy performing on the floor.

Unchain My Heart

• Date: 1989
• Composer: Joe Cocker
• Performer: Joe Cocker
• Skated in: '89 Symphony of Sports (skating and gymnastics), '89 Star Spangled Ice
• TV: ABC '89 Symphony of Sports

Spellbound Concerto photo

• Date: March 1989
• Composer: Miklos Rozsa
• Skated in: '89 Symphony on Ice shows produced by IMG
• Notes: Performed with various symphony orchestras.

Candide Overture

• Date: March 1989
• Composer: Leonard Bernstein
• Skated in: '89 Symphony on Ice shows produced by IMG
• Notes: Performed with various symphony orchestras.

Where Do You Start? photo

• Date: 1988
• Composer: Johnny Mandel, Alan & Marilyn Bergman
• Performer: Michael Feinstein
• Skated in: '88 Landover AP, Santa Rosa 1989
• TV: NBC and CTV '88 Landover

Warsaw Concerto photo

• Date: 1988
• Composer: R. Addinsell
• Skated in: '88 Landover TP
• TV: CTV complete, NBC showed only the end.

Swedish Rhapsody

• Date: 1988
• Performer: David Schut
• Skated in: Command performance for the King and Queen of Sweden in Bloomington, Minnesota.
• Notes: Skated to live piano accompaniment.

The Way You Make Me Feel photo

• Date: 1988
• Composer: Michael Jackson
• Performer: Michael Jackson
• Skated in: Festival on Ice tour, '88 Star Spangled Ice

1988 Olympic closing ceremony number

• Date: 1988
• Skated in: Calgary Olympic closing ceremonies
• TV: Global
• Notes: Part of the closing ceremony skating production . Included two consecutive layout back flips.

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 2nd version photo

• Date: 1987
• Composer: Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
• Skated in: Festival on Ice tour
• Notes: Different from 1981 number to this song.

I Heard It Through The Grapevine

• Date: 1987
• Composer: Whitfield & Strong
• Skated in: Festival on Ice tour

Aurora (Suicide Number)

• Date: December 1987
• Composer: William Lloyd Webber
• Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Skated in: '87 Paris exhibition (would normally have been the Challenge of Champions, but no competition that year)
• TV: German TV
• Notes: One of the very few times Robin has used props in a number.

Street Music photos

• Date: 1987
• Composer: William Russo
• Skated in: '87 World Pros TP
• TV: NBC
• Notes: Later modified into a long program for Doug Mattis.

Sleeping Beauty

• Date: 1987
• Composer: Tchaikovsky
• Performer:
• TV: PBS/BBC co-production
• Notes: Starred Robin as Prince Florimund and Rosalynn Sumners as Princess Aurora, with Shaun McGill, Miller & Fauver, and many others. Video is commercially available. The BBC version left out the last 5 minutes or so at the end of the special.

The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera photos

• Date: 1986?
• Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Performer: Michael Crawford
• Skated in: '89 Star Spangled Ice, '89 World Cup Championship AP in Ottawa, '89 Santa Rosa Christmas show, '90 World Pros AP, '92 Skaters' Championship EX Cincinnati, Ohio
• TV: ESPN '89 World Cup Championship, NBC '90 World Pros
• Notes: Originally choreographed to the single version of the song, which was released in England before the show opened, Robin revived the number on request for the '89 Star Spangled Ice show, then rechoreographed and recut the music to combine the single and original cast recordings of the song for the shorter version that was later televised.

Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight photos

• Date: 1986
• Composer: The Models
• Performer: The Models
• Skated in: '86 Stars on Ice tour, '86 World Pros AP, '86 Challenge of Champions EX, '89 Santa Rosa Christmas show
• TV: NBC World Pros, ABC Challenge of Champions
• Notes: Included two consecutive layout back flips. Scored a perfect 50.0 at the World Pros.

Country photos

• Date: 1986
• Composer: Charles Gross
• Performer: Soundtrack
• Skated in: '86 Stars On Ice tour , '86 Landover TP, '86 Challenge of Champions CP
• TV: NBC Landover, ABC Challenge of Champions

Machinery photos

• Date: 1986
• Composer: Mertens, Dorper, Brucken, & Freytag
• Performer: Propaganda
• Skated in: '86 Blue Jay August show, '87 Ice Capades guest appearances, '87 World Pros AP, etc.
• TV: NBC '87 World Pros
• Notes: Scored a perfect 50.0 at the World Pros, video of which is available commercially on the Ice Skating Showcase: Great Performances of the 80's tape. Included two consecutive layout back flips in the '86 Blue Jay performance.

Fanfare for the Common Man

• Date: 1986
• Composer: Aaron Copland
• Skated in: Knotts Berry Farm Superstar Ice Spectacular 1986

East Wind photo

• Date: 1986
• Skated in: '86 Ice Capades guest appearances, '86 Blue Jay August show
• Notes: Skated with a Samurai theme, later given to Japanese skater Atushi Oshima in 1987, when he turned pro.

Good As Gold photo

• Date: May 1986
• Composer: R. Currier & J. Piazza
• Performer: Judy Quay
• Skated in: 1986 Sport Aid benefit show in Birmingham, England, '86 Blue Jay July 4 show, '86 Sun Valley shows, '87 Star Spangled Ice,
• TV: BBC Sport Aid. ABC showed only the very end.
• Notes: Music specially composed for Robin for the Sport Aid fundraising gala to benefit Ethiopian famine relief, based on the short story The Happy Prince.

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

• Date: December 1985
• Composer: J.F. Coots and H. Gillespie
• Performer: Bruce Springsteen
• Skated in: '85 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting
• TV: Local NBC affiliate

Scherzo

• Date: 1985
• Composer: Henry Litolff
• Skated in: Ice Majesty
• Notes: Performed with four other skaters.

Street Heat

• Date: 1985
• Composer: Michel Columbier
• Skated in: Ice Majesty
• Notes: A story ballet involving the entire company.

Fire

• Date: 1985
• Composer: Dan Hartman
• Skated in: Ice Majesty

Rockit

• Date: 1985
• Composer: Herbie Hancock
• Skated in: Ice Majesty
• Notes: Skated with the entire company.

Body Moves

• Date: 1985
• Composer: Kitaro
• Skated in: Ice Majesty with entire cast except Robin, 1990 Star Spangled Ice with Robin performing Allen Schramm's part
• Notes: A 20 minute piece. Robin's personal favorite of all his choreographic works (as originally performed, without him) .

Spañoletta photos

• Date: 1985
• Composer: James L. Mack
• Performer: Ramsey Lewis
• Skated in: Ice Majesty, Sun Valley show July 6, 1985
• Notes: A seven minute number filled with with new and innovative spins and jumps not used in any other routine.

Satan Takes A Holiday photos

• Date: 1985
• Composer: Larry Clinton
• Performer: Hotel Orchestra
• Skated in: Ice Majesty, '85 Landover AP, '85 Challenge of Champions EX, '85 Sun Valley July 4 show, '86 Blue Jay show, '87 Star Spangled Ice, etc.
• TV: NBC '85 Landover, ABC '85 Challenge of Champions
• Notes: This tribute to his idol, Gene Kelly, scored straight 10's for a win at the '85 World Pros. Commercially available on two videotapes: Ice Skating Showcase: Great Performances of the 80's from the '85 World Pros and Magic Memories on Ice II from the '85 Challenge of Champions. A 1989 Ice Capades special dubbed in a very different rendition of the music, not what was used for the live performance.

Pie Jesu from Requiem photo

• Date: July 4, 1985
• Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Performer: Sarah Brightman and Miles Kingston
• Skated in: Sun Valley July 4, 1985, '86 Bursary Show (Toronto), '87 Star Spangled Ice, etc.

Swan Lake photos

• Date: 1984
• Composer: Tchaikovsky
• Performer: The Colorado Springs Symphony
• Skated in: '84 Broadmoor Christmas Pops, Colorado Springs
• Notes: Included appearances both as a single skater and in a pair sequence with Tami Pennington as part of a Swan Lake production number by the Broadmoor Skating Club.

Crunchy Granola Suite photos

• Date: 1984
• Composer: Neil Diamond
• Performer: The Colorado Springs Symphony
• Skated in: '84 Broadmoor Christmas Pops, Colorado Springs, '87 Paris exhibition (would normally have been the Challenge of Champions, but no competition that year)
• TV: German TV '87 Paris
• Notes: Instrumental

Hallelujah

• Date: 1984
• Skated in: 1984 Pro Skate EX
• TV: ABC Pro Skate EX

Jailhouse Rock/Blue Skies/Sing Sing Sing

• Date: December 1984
• Composer: Leiber & Stoller/Irving Berlin/Louis Prima
• Skated in: '84 New York Pro Skate CP, '84 HBO Champions on Ice special, '85 Japanese Pro Skate CP (short version)
• TV: German TV NY Pro Skate, HBO special, Japanese TV '85 Japan Pro Skate
• Notes: Originally a six minute number, the Japanese version dropped Jailhouse Rock.

Over The Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz

• Date: 1984
• Composer: Harold Arlen
• Performer: Sam Harris
• Skated in: '84 Pro Skate Team number, '84 HBO Champions on Ice special, '84 Superskates, '86 Stars on Ice, '87 Ice Capades guest appearances, etc.
• TV: ABC Pro Skate

One Rock & Roll Too Many from Starlight Express

• Date: 1984
• Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Performer: Original London cast recording
• Skated in: '84 St. Ivel (Competition) gala, England
• TV: BBC

Les Patineurs photo

• Date: 1983
• Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
• Performer: The Colorado Springs Symphony
• Skated in: '83 Broadmoor Christmas Pops, Colorado Springs
• Notes: A Broadmoor Skating Club production with solos by Robin and other skaters.

Eleanor Rigby (instrumental version)

• Date: 1983
• Composer: Lennon & McCartney
• Performer: The Colorado Springs Symphony
• Skated in: '83 Broadmoor Christmas Pops, Colorado Springs

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting number

• Date: December 1983
• Skated in: '83 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting
• TV: New York City NBC affiliate
• Notes: Instrumental

Horizon photo

• Date: 1983
• Composer: Vangelis
• Performer: Vangelis
• Skated in: '83 Pro Skate CP, '84 Japanese Pro Skate CP, '85 World Pros TP
• TV: ABC '83 Pro Skate, Japanese TV '84 Pro Skate, CBC (but not NBC) '85 World Pros

Chung Kue

• Date: 1983
• Composer: Vangelis
• Skated in: Electric Ice in England (London's West End and on tour) and Perth, Australia
• Notes: Part of Robin's first show.

Blues Ballet

• Date: June 1983
• Composer: George Gershwin
• Skated in: '83 Santa Rosa Perhaps Love show
• TV: Professionally videotaped, but never aired
• Notes: A long story ballet to Gershwin's Concerto in F with show choreographer Karen Kresge, Lisa Illsey Navarro, Dan Henry, and the cast. Robin had some input on this number.

Stray Cat Strut photo

• Date: June 1983
• Composer: Brian Setzer
• Performer: Stray Cats
• Skated in: '83 Santa Rosa Perhaps Love show, '83 Pro Skate Team
• TV: ABC '83 Pro Skate
• Notes: The original Santa Rosa version included an open axel jumped from a small elevated ice surface down to the rink, several steps below.

The Golden Apple/Theme from Bolero

• Date: February 1983
• Composer: Bob James & Michel LeGrand
• Skated in: Ice at Radio City Music Hall, New York, Blue Jay Ice Castle opening gala, 1983
• Notes: Skated to live symphony orchestras. Collaboration with show choreographer Sarah Kawahara.

Homage to the Athletes

• Date: February 1983
• Composer: Andre Mathieu & Victor Bogel
• Skated in: Ice at Radio City Music Hall, New York, Blue Jay Ice Castle opening gala, 1983
• Notes: Skated to live symphony orchestras. Collaboration with show choreographer Sarah Kawahara.

If We Were In Love from Yes, Giorgio (instrumental)

• Date: February 1983
• Composer: John Williams
• Skated in: Ice at Radio City Music Hall, a HBO Radio City Music Hall Christmas special
• TV: HBO
• Notes: Duet with Peggy Fleming. Collaboration with show choreographer Sarah Kawahara.

The Nutcracker: A Fantasy On Ice photos

• Date: 1982
• Composer: Tchaikovsky
• Skated in: Live on stage in San Francisco and Seattle December 1982, taped for HBO earlier that year in Toronto.
• TV: HBO
• Notes: Starred Robin as the Nutcracker Prince and Dorothy Hamill as Clara. Collaboration with show choreographer Karen Kresge. Video is commercially available.

The Swan (Variations)

• Date: 1982?
• Composer: David Cullen's variations on Saint-Saens
• Performer: Julian Lloyd Webber
• Skated in: A TV special for the BBC titled Behind The Scenes which documented the creation of this collaboration with dance choreographer Bill Drysdale from beginning to public performance.
• TV: BBC

Music (of the Spheres) photo

• Date: 1982
• Composer: John Miles
• Performer: John Miles
• Skated in: Holiday on Ice in Blackpool, England

How Ya Baby/Black and Blue

• Date: 1981?
• Composer: Waller & Johnson/Razaf, Waller, & Brooks
• Skated in: Holiday On Ice in Europe, '82 New York Pro Skate CP
• TV: ABC and BBC Pro Skate
• Notes: Also performed in Holiday On Ice with other skaters. Collaboration with Holiday on Ice choreographer Stephanie Andros.

Rockin' Robin photos

• Date: 1981?
• Composer: Thomas
• Skated in: '82 New York Pro Skate EX, '83 Santa Rosa Perhaps Love show
• TV: ABC Pro Skate

Morning Rain/Jellicle Ball from Cats

• Date: 1981
• Composer: ?/Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Skated in: '81 Landover AP
• TV: NBC, BBC
• Notes: First back flip in pro competition.

Let It Be Me

• Date: December 1981
• Composer: Becaud/Delanoe/Curtis
• Skated in: '81 Landover TP
• TV: NBC, BBC
• Notes: Included a Russian split Axel, which no other skater has done, according to John Misha Petkevich.

One Voice

• Date: 1981
• Composer: Barry Manilow
• Skated in: '81 Queens Ice Rink Gala (British exhibition)
• TV: BBC

If I Were A Rich Man

• Date: 1981?
• Composer: Jerry Bock
• Skated in: Holiday On Ice in Europe
• Notes: Part of a Fiddler on the Roof production number. Collaboration with Holiday on Ice choreographer Stephanie Andros.

Elvis Presley medley

• Date: 1981?
• Skated in: Holiday On Ice in Europe
• Notes: An Elvis Presley impersonation as part of a Hollywood Superstars production number. Collaboration with Holiday on Ice choreographer Stephanie Andros.

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 1st version photo

• Date: 1981
• Composer: Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
• Skated in: '81 Santa Rosa pro show Love is Here
• Notes: Different from 1987 version of this song.

24 Hours in the Life of a Man

• Date: 1980
• Skated in: Holiday On Ice Europe
• Notes: A Holiday On Ice production number. Collaboration with Holiday on Ice choreographer Stephanie Andros.

Bilitis

• Date: December 1980
• Composer: Francis Lai
• Skated in: '80 Landover TP
• TV: NBC, BBC

Summer of '42

• Date: 1980
• Composer: Michel LeGrand
• Skated in: The Big Show
• TV: NBC
• Notes: Duet with Peggy Fleming. The Big Show was a short lived variety series that featured one skating number every week. Choreographer unknown.

exhibition

• Date: May 1980
• Skated in: Santa Rosa, California amateur show

exhibition

• Date: May 1980
• Skated in: Santa Rosa, California amateur show

She's Out Of My Life/You Can't Win

• Date: 1980
• Composer: Bahler
• Performer: Michael Jackson
• Skated in: Showtime on Ice Denver 1980 club show
• TV: PBS

Don't Stop Till You Get Enough photo

• Date: 1980
• Composer: Phillinganes
• Performer: Michael Jackson
• Skated in: '80 Olympics EX, '80 Worlds EX
• TV: '80 Olympics & Worlds EX (global)

With You I'm Born Again photos

• Date: 1980
• Composer: Shire & Connors
• Performer: Billy Preston &: Syreeta
• Skated in: '80 Olympics EX , Showtime on Ice Denver 1980 club show
• TV: '80 Olympics (global), PBS Showtime on Ice Denver 1980 club show

Where Do I Go? from Hair

• Date: 1980
• Composer: Rado, Ragni, & Macdermot
• Skated in: '80 Europeans EX
• TV: CBS
• Notes: Disco version.

Belle de Jour/Dragons At Midnight/Murder on the Orient Express/Paint It Black photos from Olympic exhibitions in same costume

• Date: 1980
• Composer: San Tropez/Mike Theodore/Richard Rodney Bennet/Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
• Skated in: NHK Trophy, Ennia Cup, British, Europeans, Olympics, Worlds
• TV: '80 Olympics, Europeans, and Worlds (global)
• Notes: 1980 long program.

Tripoline (also spelled Cipolino etc.) photo

• Date: 1979
• Composer: Khatchaturian
• Skated in: '79 Jimmy Fund, Showtime on Ice Denver 1980 club show, '82 New York Pro Skate Team Competition program
• TV: PBS Jimmy Fund and Showtime on Ice, ABC and BBC Pro Skate
• Notes: Different music cut from that used for Paul Wylie's 1980 Jr. long program.

Tribute to Ernest Higgs

• Date: 1979
• Skated in: National Skating Association of Great Britain Centenary Gala (also a World Tour stop)
• Notes: A tribute to his grandfather, who had just passed away.

Superman theme/Can You Read My Mind? (instrumental)

• Date: 1979
• Composer: John Williams
• Skated in: Star Skates show (Los Angeles)
• TV: NBC

classical exhibition

• Date: 1979
• Skated in: '79 Worlds EX
• TV: ABC

Swan Lake etc.

• Date: 1979
• Composer: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, ?
• Skated in: British, Europeans, Worlds
• TV: CBS '79 Europeans (end only), ABC '79 Worlds
• Notes: '79 long program. Included both triple toe loop-double loop and triple loop-double toe loop combinations.

Also Sprach Zarathustra

• Date: 1979
• Composer: R. Strauss
• Skated in: British, Europeans, Worlds
• Notes: '79 season short program

disco exhibition number photo

• Date: 1978
• Skated in: '78 Worlds EX, '79 Jimmy Fund
• TV: ABC Worlds, PBS Jimmy Fund

Summertime from Porgy and Bess

• Date: 1978
• Composer: George Gershwin
• Skated in: '78 Superskates exhibition (Madison Square Garden)
• TV: CBS
• Notes: Disco version.

The Flower Song from Carmen (instrumental)

• Date: 1978
• Composer: Bizet
• Performer: instrumental
• Skated in: '78 Europeans EX
• TV: CBS

Lady Sings The Blues/Yellow Submarine (movie instrumental)/Silent Movie photo

• Date: 1978
• Composer: Michel LeGrand/?/John Morris
• Skated in: Skate Canada, British Nationals, Europeans, Worlds
• TV: CBS '78 Europeans (end), ABC '78 Worlds
• Notes: '78 long program.

Young Frankenstein

• Date: 1977
• Composer: John Morris
• Skated in: '77 Jimmy Fund, '77 Superskates
• TV: PBS Jimmy Fund, CBS Superskates

exhibition

• Date: 1977
• Skated in: '77 Jimmy Fund
• TV: PBS

exhibition

• Date: 1977
• Skated in: '77 Jimmy Fund
• TV: PBS

El Dorado/Kalinka/Clair De Lune/Hava Nagila

• Date: 1977
• Composer: Electric Light Orchestra, Debussy
• Skated in: Skate Canada, British Nationals, Europeans
• TV: CBS '77 Europeans
• Notes: '77 Long Program.

The Railway Children

• Date: 1977
• Composer: J. Douglas
• Skated in: '77, '78, and '80 SP
• TV: NBC America on Ice show 1978, '80 Olympics (global), '80 Worlds (ABC, BBC)
• Notes: Received the only perfect 6.0 (for Artistic Impression) given during the 1980 Olympics. Choreography and music version varied with the season.

1976 Long Program (Three Blind Mice Etc.)

• Date: 1976
• Skated in: British Nationals, Europeans, Olympics, Worlds
• Notes: Probably the only skater to land five triple jumps at the '76 Olympics, one journalist wrote that he had skated to variations onThree Blind Mice in front of nine blind judges (he finished 10th overall).

Help Me Make It Through The Night

• Date: 1975
• Composer: Kris Kristofferson
• Performer: Gladys Knight
• Skated in: '75 Ice Society show in England
• TV: British TV

1975 Long Program

• Date: 1975
• Skated in: British Nationals, Europeans, Worlds

Enter the Greeks

• Date: 1974/1975
• Skated in: 1974/1975 exhibition in England
• TV: British TV

Malaguena

• Date: 1973/1974
• Composer: Ernesto Lecuona
• Skated in: 1973/1974 Ice and Easy show in England
• TV: British TV