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The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and genre. One or more compulsory dances were usually skated as the first phase of ice dancing competitions.
Ice dance, a discipline of figure skating, has required elements that make up a well-balanced rhythm dance program and free dance program, which must be performed during competitions. They include: the dance lift , the dance spin , the step sequence , turn sequences (which include twizzles and one-foot turns sequences), and choreographic elements.
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (2009) demonstrating an ice dance hold. The ISU defines a step sequence in ice dance as "a series of prescribed or un-prescribed steps, turns and movements in a Rhythm Dance or a Free Dance". [4] Step sequences have three divisions: types, groups, and styles. [4] There are two types of step sequences: not-touching or ...
Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976.
Combined skating, or "patterns of moves for two skaters around a common center marked by a ball and later an orange placed on the ice", [5] had a "profound historical significance" [6] to the sport that eventually manifested itself in ice dancing, pair skating, and synchronized skating, and dominated the sport for 50 years in England during the ...
A full pattern dance usually comprises two or more technical elements called "pattern dance sequences", which can be performed back-to-back or enclose other elements in between. Depending on the type of pattern dance, a sequence can be divided into "sections", which are evaluated as distinct elements.
The music chosen by the ice dance teams for the RD, including music for the specified pattern dance, can include vocals, must be "suitable for Ice Dance as a sport discipline" [2] and must reflect the character of the music and/or selected dance rhythms and/or themes. [10] The RD must fit the phrasing of the music ice dance teams use.
The original dance (OD) was added to ice dance competitions in 1967, when it became a replacement for one of the two compulsory dances. It was previously called the "original set pattern dance" (OSPD), [2] but its name was simplified to the "original dance" in 1990.