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Figure Skating · Level 6: Advanced · Sub-level 6.2

Dance Rhythms and Steps

2 tests · 20 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown

Swing rolls, chassés and progressives, the first waltz, tango and blues, the dance ladder.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Waltz and tango stepsTake a test

  1. The free leg extends back for three beats, then passes close to the skating foot and extends forward for three.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  2. The pushing foot pushes off its inside edge at a 45-degree angle to the skating foot.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  3. The edge of a swing roll is a complete half circle, or lobe.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  4. A four-beat chassé is one beat on the first step, one on the second and two on the third.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  5. In the slide chassé the feet come together and the inside leg slides forward while the skating knee bends.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  6. The Dutch Waltz is skated to a 3/4 waltz at 138 beats per minute.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  7. The Canasta Tango is skated in reverse Kilian: the Kilian position with partner one on partner two's left.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  8. The four-beat swing roll holds the free leg back for two beats, swings it past and holds it forward for two.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · applied

  9. The waltz badges lead to the Dutch Waltz, the tango badges to the Canasta Tango and the blues badges to the Rhythm Blues.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · applied

  10. Three beats back and three forward is row A. The others split the six beats unevenly, or have only four.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · applied

Test 2Blues and the dance ladderTake a test

  1. On count two the skating knee rises while the free leg keeps extending back at a 45-degree angle: that is the flare.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  2. The progressive takes the same rhythm as the chassé: short, short, long, with two beats on the third step.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  3. The cross behinds continue on a slight curve before the feet come together to restart the pattern.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  4. At Level I a skater chooses from these three dances; the Swing Dance group belongs to Level II.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  5. Level VI asks for the Starlight Waltz, Kilian, Blues and Paso Doble.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  6. On the content sheet PD stands for the Paso Doble, alongside KI for the Kilian.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  7. The guide puts no more than five ice dance teams in one warm-up group.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · recall

  8. Level I has the Dutch Waltz, II the Swing Dance, III the Ten Fox and IV the Fourteen Step.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · applied

  9. The flare rises on count two; the skater re-bends on the same lobe and goes into the inside progressive.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · applied

  10. C runs one, one and two beats. A is 2-1-1, B the slide chassé's 2-2, D 1-2-1.

    Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021) · applied

Sources

ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27; ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27; ISU Handbook for Technical Panels, Synchronized Skating 2025/26 (the 2026/27 edition was not yet published); ISU Sports Rules, Synchronized Skating (2026); Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021). Original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Dance and synchro rules belong to the rules categories; season requirements are not keyed.

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