Figure Skating | Ice Dance: Compulsory Dance/Pattern Dance

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.Show more

1. Blues
Inventors – Robert Dench and Lesley Turner
First Performance – London, Streatham Ice Rink, 1934
2. Midnight Blues
Inventors – Roy, Sue Bradshaw, Mark Bradshaw, and Julie MacDonald.
First Performance – Vancouver, Canada, 2001
3. European Waltz
Inventor – unknown
First Performance – before 1900 but the exact date and location are unknown.
4. American Waltz
Inventor – unknown
First performance – unknown
5. Starlight Waltz
Inventors – Courtney J. L. Jones and Peri V. Horne
First Performance – London, Queens Ice Rink, 1963
6. Westminster Waltz
Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats
First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938
7. Viennese Waltz
Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats
First Performance – London, Streatham Ice Rink, 1934
8. Ravensburger Waltz
Inventors – Angelika and Erich Buck and Betty Callaway
First Performance – Krefeld, West German Figure Skating Championships – 1973
9. Golden Waltz
Inventors – Natalia Dubova, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko
First Performance – Moscow Cup 1987, Moscow USSR
10. Paso Doble
Inventors – Reginald B. Wilkie and Daphne B. Wallis
First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938
11. Rhumba
Inventor – Walter Gregory
First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938
12. Cha Cha Congelado
Inventors – Bernard Ford, Kelly Johnson, Laurie Palmer and Steven Belanger
First Performance – Richmond Hill, Ontario, 1989
13. Fourteenstep
Inventor – Franz Scholler
First performance – in Vienna, 1889, as the Ten Step or Scholler March
14. Quickstep
Inventors – Reginald J. Wilkie and Daphne B. Wallis
First Performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1938
15. Foxtrot
Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats
First performance – London, Westminster Ice Rink, 1933
16. Rocker Foxtrot
Inventors – Eric van der Weyden and Eva Keats
First performance – London, Streatham Ice Rink, 1934
17. Yankee Polka
Inventors – James Sladky, Judy Schwomeyer and Ron Ludington
First Performance – Wilmington, Skating Club of Wilmington, 1969