compulsory dance
{{Short description|Segment in an ice dancing competition}}
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File:Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir at 2010 World Championships (4).jpg and Scott Moir performing the Golden Waltz]]
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. The 2009–10 season was the final season in which the segment was included in International Skating Union (ISU) junior and senior level competition. In June 2010, the ISU replaced the name "compulsory dance" with "pattern dance" for ice dance, and merged it into the short dance (SD) beginning in the 2010–11 figure skating season.
The first CDs were developed during the 1930s by teams from Great Britain, who dominated ice dance for most of the early years after the sport was contested at the 1952 World Championships. The prominence of the CD in ice dance slowly declined, until it was removed and replaced by the SD in 2011, the year that the ISU voted to restructure ice dance competitions by removing the compulsory dance and original dance (OD) and replacing them with the short dance and free dance (FD).
Ice dancers performed the same pattern around the rink once or twice, to the same step sequences and the same standardized tempo. The competitors were then scored based on their execution of the various elements of the dance. The CD allowed the judges to compare the technical skills of each dancer.
Background
File:F. Faiella and M. Scali at 2010 World Championships (6).jpg and Massimo Scali performing the Golden Waltz at the 2010 World Championships]]
Ice dance was contested for the first time at the World Championships in 1952; for most of that period, the British dominated the sport, winning 12 out of the next 16 championships. Many of the first CDs were developed during the 1930s by teams from Great Britain, some of which have been used by ice dance teams throughout the history of the sport.{{cite web |last1=Elton |first1=Cheryl |title=A Brief History of Ice Dancing |url=http://www.icedancers.com/A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Ice%20Dancing%20-%20v.%202.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516045610/https://www.icedancers.com/A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Ice%20Dancing%20-%20v.%202.pdf |archive-date=16 May 2021 |access-date=7 September 2022 |website=Ice Dancers.com |page=2}} The CD's prominence in ice dance slowly declined; in 1952, CDs accounted for 60% of the total points dancers could earn, but when the original dance (OD) was added in 1967, it replaced the second CD.Hines, p. 12 In 1988, the same year compulsory figures was removed from women's and men's single figure skating, CDs were decreased from three to two.{{cite news |title=No More Figures In Figure Skating |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/09/sports/no-more-figures-in-figure-skating.html?pagewanted=print |access-date=15 October 2019 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=9 June 1988 |page=D00025 |archive-date=26 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626220530/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/09/sports/no-more-figures-in-figure-skating.html?pagewanted=print |url-status=live }}
In 2010, after urging by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to decrease the number of segments from three to two "for some time", the ISU voted to remove the CD from competitions, replacing it with the SD.Hines, p. 91 According to then-ISU president Ottavio Cinquanta, the change was also made because "the compulsory dances were not very attractive for spectators and television".{{cite news |last1=Kany |first1=Klaus-Reinhold |date=9 July 2011 |title=The Short Dance Debate |work=International Figure Skating Magazine |issue=August 2011 |url=http://www.ifsmagazine.com/articles/568-the-short-dance-debate |url-status=dead |access-date=7 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722120955/http://www.ifsmagazine.com/articles/568-the-short-dance-debate |archive-date=22 July 2011}} The SD had to incorporate a compulsory element in which each dance team must perform the same two patterns of a set pattern dance. Its rhythms and themes are determined beforehand by the ISU.{{cite web |title=Partnered Ice Dancing Events |url=http://iceskatingresources.org/PartneredIceDancingEvents.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801211242/http://iceskatingresources.org/PartneredIceDancingEvents.html |archive-date=1 August 2020 |access-date=7 September 2022 |website=Ice Skating Information & Resources |publisher=San Diego Figure Skating Communications}}{{cite news |last1=Zuckerman |first1=Esther |date=14 February 2014 |title=A Quick GIF Guide to Ice Dance |work=The Atlantic |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/quick-guide-ice-dance/358117/ |access-date=7 September 2022 |archive-date=11 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111162042/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/quick-guide-ice-dance/358117/ |url-status=live }} The ice dancers are judged on how well they integrate the pattern dance into the entire SD.{{cite web |title=Dance Format 2011 |url=http://files.kkhavirov.cz/200000806-409b941952/Short%20Dance%20Format%20Explanation.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022064145/http://files.kkhavirov.cz/200000806-409b941952/Short%20Dance%20Format%20Explanation.pdf |archive-date=22 October 2020 |access-date=7 September 2022 |publisher=Kraso Club of Havířov |location=Havířov, Czech Republic}}
The 2010 World Championships was the last event to include a CD (the Golden Waltz), with Federica Faiella and Massimo Scali from Italy being the last dance team to perform a CD in competition.{{cite web |date=20 June 2010 |title=ISU Congress News |url=https://www.ice-dance.com/site/isu-congress-news4/ |access-date=7 September 2022 |website=ice-dance.com |archive-date=13 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170713200549/https://www.ice-dance.com/site/isu-congress-news4/ |url-status=live }}
Dances
File:Jana KHOKHLOVA Sergei NOVITSKI European Championships 2008 CD.jpg and Sergei Novitski on a backward outside edge as they perform the Yankee Polka]]
File:2008 World Championships - Meryl Davis and Charlie White.jpg and Charlie White performing the Argentine Tango]]
File:Anna CAPPELLINI Luca LANOTTE EC 2009 CD.jpg and Luca Lanotte performing the Finnstep]]The dances that have been performed in junior and senior international competition include the following, which is not a comprehensive list:{{refn|group=note|List taken from ice-dance.com{{cite web |title=Pattern Dance Descriptions & Charts |url=https://www.ice-dance.com/site/reference/pattern-dance-descriptions-patterns/ |website=ice-dance.com |access-date=28 September 2022 |archive-date=29 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629134936/https://www.ice-dance.com/site/reference/pattern-dance-descriptions-patterns/ |url-status=live }} and U.S. Figure Skating.{{cite web |title=Pattern Dance Scale of Values with Sequences/Sections for Pattern Dances Judged Using IJS with NO Key Points |url=http://www.usfsa.org/Content/All_CD_Sections_SOVs.pdf |website=usfsa.org |access-date=17 October 2019 |date=March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024192744/http://www.usfsa.org/Content/All_CD_Sections_SOVs.pdf |archive-date=24 October 2018 }}}}
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| scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | First performed ! scope="col" | Creators | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fourteenstep | 1889 | Franz Schöller |
| European Waltz | before 1900 | |
| American Waltz | ||
| Kilian | 1909 | Karl Schreiter |
| Tango | 1932 | Paul Krechkow, Trudy Harris |
| Foxtrot | 1933 | |
| European Waltz | before 1900 | Eric van der Weyden, Eva Keats |
| Argentine Tango | 1934 | Reginald J. Wilkie, Daphne B. Wallis |
| Blues | 1934 | Robert Dench, Lesley Turner |
| Rocker Foxtrot | 1934 | Eric van der Weyden, Eva Keats |
| Viennese Waltz | 1934 | Eric van der Weyden, Eva Keats |
| Paso Doble | 1938 | Reginald B. Wilkie, Daphne B. Wallis |
| Quickstep | 1938 | Reginald J. Wilkie, Daphne B. Wallis |
| Rhumba | 1938 | Walter Gregory |
| Westminster Waltz | 1938 | Eric van der Weyden, Eva Keats |
| Silver Samba | 1963 | Courtney J. L. Jones, Peri V. Horne |
| Starlight Waltz | 1963 | Courtney J. L. Jones, Peri V. Horne |
| Yankee Polka | 1969 | James Sladky, Judy Schwomeyer, Ronald Ludington |
| Ravensburger Waltz | 1973 | Angelika Buck, Erich Buck, Betty Callaway |
| Tango Romantica | 1974 | Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov, Elena Tchaikovskaia |
| Austrian Waltz | 1979 | Susi Handschmann, Peter Handschmann |
| Golden Waltz | 1987 | Natalia Dubova, Marina Klimova, Sergei Ponomarenko |
| Cha Cha Congelado | 1989 | Bernard Ford, Kelly Johnson, Laurie Palmer, Steven Belanger |
| Finnstep | 1995 | Susanna Rahkamo, Petri Kokko, Martin Skotnicky |
| Midnight Blues | 2001 | Roy Bradshaw, Sue Bradshaw, Mark Bradshaw, Julie MacDonald |
Footnotes
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References
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Works cited
- Hines, James R. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-6859-5}}.
- U.S. Figure Skating (2009). [http://www.usfigureskating.org/Content/Rules%20of%20Sport.pdf "The 2010 Official U.S. Figure Skating Rulebook"]. Archived from [https://web.archive.org/web/20180718084007/http://www.usfigureskating.org/Content/Rules%20of%20Sport.pdf the original] on 18 July 2018. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
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