# Dance Rhythms and Steps · Figure Skating Level 6: Advanced

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Dance Rhythms and Steps in Figure Skating (Level 6: Advanced) on Insporta: 20 sourced facts behind 2 tests. Covers: waltz and tango steps.

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

## Test 1: Waltz and tango steps

- 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))
- 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))
- The edge of a swing roll is a complete half circle, or lobe. (Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021))
- 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))
- 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))
- The Dutch Waltz is skated to a 3/4 waltz at 138 beats per minute. (Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))

## Test 2: Blues and the dance ladder

- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- Level VI asks for the Starlight Waltz, Kilian, Blues and Paso Doble. (Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021))
- On the content sheet PD stands for the Paso Doble, alongside KI for the Kilian. (Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021))
- The guide puts no more than five ice dance teams in one warm-up group. (Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))

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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