Jordan Cowan

Award-winning On Ice Cinematographer & former Team USA Ice Dancer, filming for the live broadcast of the 2021 Worlds in Stockholm. Photo: Flavio Valle

Who is Jordan Cowan?  

Jordan Cowan trained as a competitive ice dancer for Team USA over a decade, finishing his career in 7th at the US Figure Skating Championships. He then crossed over into professional ballroom dancing, where he saw how dancers with cameras were revolutionizing the dance world in television and film.

Jordan eventually brought this idea to the ice, and created ‘On Ice Perspectives’, a series dedicated to bringing online audiences closer than ever to skating. Jordan uses every tool at his disposal to create skating videos that are exciting, engaging, and viewed by millions. In 2022, On Ice Perspectives has a combined audience of 1.5 million followers across its social media channels. Through Jordan’s experience as a world-class skater, his undying passion for cinematography, and his exceptional understanding of social media networking, Jordan has created a new way for people to discover and stay engaged by today’s figure skaters. More importantly, On Ice Perspectives has brought audiences back to watching, and thinking about figure skating year-round, and its inspired a new generation of skaters who watch skating online to watch and learn from their heroes in near-real-time. And by being crowd-funded by donations on his Patreon channel, Jordan has been able to affordably showcase up-and-coming skaters very early in their careers.

Professional Work:

Jordan Cowan has filmed four seasons of ITV’s Dancing on Ice, as their first-ever live broadcast skating camera operator, watched by a weekly live audience of over 6 million viewers in the UK. For his revolutionary work on the show, Jordan was awarded an “Award for Excellence’ by the Guild of Television Camera Operators in 2020. That same year, Jordan adapted his role as a live-broadcast skating camera operator to CBC’s ‘Battle of the Blades’. In 2021, Jordan filmed for NBC’s Winter Olympics TV spots, including Nathan Chen’s Jurassic World: Dominion trailer. Jordan has shot for documentaries such as The Olympics Channel’s ‘On Edge’, BBC’s ‘Freeze’, PBS’s ‘The World of Ice Dance International’, and ‘GO FIGURE: The Randy Gardner Story.’ Jordan’s work has been showcased on TIME Magazine, IMG’s ‘Stars On Ice’, Cirque Du Soleil’s ‘Crystal’, ABC’s ‘What Would You Do?’, and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir’s ‘The Thank You Canada Tour’. Last but not least, Jordan was the live skating camera operator for the Gala Exhibition at the 2021 ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Sweden.

Jordan lives in New York City, and travels frequently to Montreal, Los Angeles, and London to film.

Jurassic World: Dominion Teaser with Nathan Chen (2022)

Award-winning ‘one take’ on Dancing on Ice with Torvill & Dean (2020)

Behind the scenes of Dancing on Ice’s ‘one take’ with Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean