Use Dan Hollander as your guest performer for your show!
Dan was four years old when he saw Scott Hamilton dressed in a chicken outfit on Champions on Ice, laughing till he had tears in his eyes. Since then comedy has been the main focus in his skating career. He was a full cast member of COI from 2000 until it closed in 2007, and continues to perform making audiences laugh world wide.
For availability to have Dan perform in your skating show please contact: Dan@DanHollander.com
I have wanted to create a Popeye routine for quite some time now. Two years ago, I put together a solo version of Popeye for Mike Weiss’ show, but it just didn’t feel right.
I had an idea a few years ago to do the “Best of COI” as directed by Tom Collins. His voice would challenge me to be as good as the other skaters. When he named a skater, I would imitate them to the best of my ability.
I have been "training" Santa at the Gallery Mall in Texas since 2000! I decided to put together a fun video showing Santa getting back into shape to perform. For some reason little kids love watching this video!
I have always liked the “stepping” that the college teams do, which I attempted to add to my Super Hero routine with the “Holler Back Girl.”
Where do I even begin? What an amazing day. I’ll just give a brief explanation of what happened and let the videos speak for themselves.
So in wracking my brain to come up with a second routine for Sun Valley this year, Marcia told me I had to do a Beyonce routine based on the SNL skit with Justin Timberlake.
This year Sun Valley decided on a western theme. I have always loved the song “Dearly Beloved” by Faith Hill. It is all about this shot gun wedding in which everyone is flirting with everyone else, with the main part being, “They’ll be together forever till they find somebody new.” It just cracks me up.
I heard this GREAT song “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz. I couldn’t stop listen to it, knowing that I would eventually skate to it (just like Heaven is a Half Pipe for “Angel”).
I have been working on this routine for close to five years! I knew that I wanted to figure out a way to have muscles that can pump up, like using a bicycle pump or something.
I feel this is my most creative story line routine to date. I was at the NJS (now simply called IJS) seminar and decided to do a routine that would spoof our sport.
So the previous year was a bit of a cop out for a fresh routine by copying Doubtfire. This year I really wanted to come up with something good. Years back I heard Craig Heath, a very talented skated, talking about doing a Richard Simmons number. Well, it was years later, and I knew my version would be completely different.
The Nun routine was created for one reason only…to not have to do Doubtfire again that year on COI. I knew Tom Collins loved that routine, so I figured if I copied it
Ahh…one of my favorite numbers that Tom Collins can’t stand. This a great routine Tommy!!! I was returning an item to Circuit City and in the middle of the transaction I heard, “…if I die before I wake, at least in Heaven I can skate…”
I totally ripped this off, and I am happy to admit it. Not wanting to be forced to do Doubtfire again on COI (I felt the audience still deserved something new), I started to think,
I always liked the Barber of Seville and used it for short program. I was mad that I had all these great ideas for 2 people and no pair or dance team seemed willing to try any of my ideas.
This is by far my most popular routine. I knew as soon as Doubtfire hit the theaters, watching the cleaning scene, that I wanted to put that on the ice.
went to a Tap Dogs show ready to find a way to put this cool show on the ice. There was this one part when one guy would tap out a rhythm and the other guy would follow it.
Finally I hit my big break placing 3rd in the U.S. Tom Collins invited me to skate on his tour, the same tour that I saw Scott Hamilton when I was 5.
Where do I even begin? What an amazing day. I’ll just give a brief explanation of what happened and let the videos speak for themselves. Scott Hamilton had shoulder surgery and just got back to the ice the day before. Since jumping and backflips are not on the Dr.s agenda, he asked Steven Cousins and myself to help him out like his “stunt” doubles for his golf routine and the one I choreographed for him. Here is what happened….
