Igor Shpilband
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Igor Shpilband is a former Soviet ice dancer and current ice dancing coach. With partner Tatiana Gladkova, he won the 1983 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. He currently lives in Michigan, where he trains many top dance teams, including Tanith Belbin & Benjamin Agosto, Megan Wing & Aaron Lowe, Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir, and Meryl Davis & Charlie White. In addition, his past students have included U.S. champions Elizabeth Punsalan & Jerod Swallow and Naomi Lang & Peter Tchernyshev, and World Junior champions Jessica Joseph & Charles Butler and Jamie Silverstein & Justin Pekarek.