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2021 World Championships Free Dance — "Hallelujah"

Five seasons after a "Hallelujah" program proved to be their breakthrough, Hubbell and Donohue revisted the song and reworked it into an elegant, powerful free dance. The program, which combined both the k.d. lang version of the song they used before with the Jeff Buckley version, helped them reclaim their national title and earn another silver medal at the World Championships.

According to the team, it's always been a special song for them. "We felt really hopeful when we did it in 2015, and we kept coming back to that music for exhibitions, because in monumental moments of our career, that song feels like it's us," Hubbell told Figure Skaters Online. "Inevitably we were drawn to the idea of marrying the two versions, the version by K.D. Lang and the version that Zach used to sing to me, which is by Jeff Buckley, and I think it really shows a different side to 'Hallelujah' and something that maybe hasn't been explored as much on the ice, kind of a raw, intimate quality, and that's something that definitely is part of our partnership."