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104: 165: 180: 29: 195: 1730: 1740: 122:; 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. 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 141:, the change was also made because "the compulsory dances were not very attractive for spectators and television". 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. The ice dancers are judged on how well they integrate the pattern dance into the entire SD. 94:
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.
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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
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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
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The dances that have been performed in junior and senior international competition include the following, which is not a comprehensive list:
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was removed from women's and men's single figure skating, CDs were decreased from three to two.
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from Italy being the last dance team to perform a CD in competition.
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was the last event to include a CD (the Golden Waltz), with
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on a backward outside edge as they perform the Yankee Polka
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performing the Golden Waltz at the 2010 World Championships
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Compulsory dance (artistic roller skating)
A man and a woman ice dancing; the man, on the left, is wearing black tie and tails; the woman is wearing an off-white dress with a fluffy skirt.
Tessa Virtue
Scott Moir
figure skating
ice dance
competitions
International Skating Union
short dance
2010–11 figure skating season
1952 World Championships
original dance
free dance
A man and woman ice dancing; the man, on the left, is wearing a classic tuxedo with a white-ruffled shirt, and the woman is wearing a knee-length light blue dress with a ruffled pink hem
Federica Faiella
Massimo Scali
World Championships in 1952
original dance
compulsory figures
International Olympic Committee
Ottavio Cinquanta
2010 World Championships
Federica Faiella
Massimo Scali
A man and woman ice dancing; the woman, on the left, has red hair pulled back tightly and is wearing a dark pink and white peasant dress, and the man is wearing a black and white shirt with a dark pink lapels and black trousers
Jana Khokhlova
Sergei Novitski
A man and woman ice dancing; the woman, on the left, has dark hair pulled back tightly with a rose tie and wearing a short black dress, and the man is wearing an open-collar black shirt and black trousers
Meryl Davis
Charlie White

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