Compulsory dances are a part of ice dancing and artistic roller skating in which all the couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to music of a specified tempo. One or more compulsory dances are usually skated as the first phase of competitions in ice dancing, but they are also popular as a form of recreational or social dance among skaters.
The patterns for most dances either cover one-half or one full circuit of the rink. The International Skating Union (ISU) and the Fédération Internationale de Roller-Skating (FIRS) publish the step diagrams and descriptions of the dances that are competed internationally, and also provides a set of standard music recordings for each dance with uniform tempo and introductory phrasing for use in competition.
The dances that are performed in junior and senior international competition include:
The American Waltz, European Waltz, Fourteenstep, and Kilian (a march) date back to the early days of figure skating.
Source: Wikipedia
Twitter News:
NPpopular: Virtue, Moir second after compulsory dance: A rare fall during the compulsory dance dropped the American favourite… http://bit.ly/aegPiL
bfibbs: I may have spoken too soon about Ice Dancing. Once they freed themselves of the Compulsory dance, things have really come alive. #olympics
disneyfreak96: Watching the Ice Dancing LP and already miss the compulsory dance.
dfslioch: @ScottRintoul My wife had tix for the compulsory routine. 23 pairs doing the same dance. Very tedious. Today was much better though.
posielove: @sheepmama @fentonslee no kidding!! It just goes on & on & on…& why all the separate competitions? Compulsory, free dance, etc
vinivia: i’ve gotta give it to the russian ice dancers, they’ve got balls for those costumes. their compulsory dance was fantastic though.
DesignChick01: the ice dancing tonight was so beautiful! I could do without the compulsory dance- they get boring after a while… but tonight- wow!
UltharCat: @SybilT173 but what did they wear for compulsory dance?
ShireenJ: .@kabutar Including those dastardly Russians who got high marks during compulsory dance. Will we see an upset here? #olympics #ctv
carrielalala: @SirCatTheGleek, OH! I thought that’s what you were askin, but I wasn’t sure. I think I was watching Compulsory Dance Ice Skating.
Laurenane: Vancouver Olympics: Canton teams in 2nd, 3rd after compulsory dance http://bit.ly/c1p5k3 ;) canadian champions
JoDitt: The free skate tonight is more fun to watch than the compulsory dance was. #van2010
OohNAahInvites: The free skate tonight is more fun to watch than the compulsory dance was. #van2010
_whatshername: @foreign_spell Don’t think anything will top the Compulsory Dance preview to Bad Romance.
mrseb: Maaan, the Ice Dance is STUNNING. Gotta love the creativity of the original dances compared to the compulsory stuffs.
Compulsory Dance Blog Results
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In what could be the final performance of the compulsory dance in the Olympics, the Russian ice dancing team of Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin came out on top with 43.76 points.Read more
- 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics: Ice dancing begins Friday with …
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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir stand in second place after the compulsory dance portion of the ice-dance competition Friday at the Vancouver Olympics. – Read more
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