Figure Skating · Level 6: Advanced · Sub-level 6.3
Ice Dance in Competition
2 tests · 20 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown
Calls, symbols and the officials' roles around a dance program.
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 1A dance at a competitionTake a test
TS1 calls the woman's twizzles, one-foot turns and steps, and TS2 the man's.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · recall
A fall during an element is called as 'Fall by 1 or 2 in Element', for example in a curve lift.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · recall
The > sign marks an extended lift, and the Referee applies the deduction.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
S is a level reduction applied by the Technical Panel when hold or contact requirements were not met.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
The judge establishes the GOE as usual, then reduces it by one grade, to +4 at most.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
A dance spin is skated by the couple together in any hold, on the spot around a common axis on one foot.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · recall
Choreographic elements include the character step sequence, lift, sliding, spinning and twizzling movements.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · recall
The caller explains, the replay runs, the specialists give opinions and the Technical Controller summarises the call.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · applied
TS2 makes the pre-call, TS1 calls each element as it begins, and any member may say 'review', nothing more.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · applied
In B the partners turn round one shared centre. A and D spin on two centres side by side; C travels apart.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · applied
Test 2Officials and the danceTake a test
Timing programs, interruptions, Dance Lifts and tempos is among the Referee's competition duties.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
Late starts and interruptions are among the responsibilities the guide gives the Referee.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
Costume and prop violations, music and choreography restrictions are majority deductions of the Referee and judges.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
The Technical Panel identifies elements, levels, falls, illegal elements and extra elements.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
Digital isolation: all electronic devices must be switched off, and judges mark independently.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
Unless it is a numerical or calculation error, no changes can be made once the score has been announced.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/27 · recall
Earlier marks may be checked only as a consistency reference, never to predetermine ranking.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · recall
Judges meet first at the Initial Judges Meeting, before each segment, and after it at the Round Table Discussion.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · applied
B, >, is the extended lift. A, <, reduces a Pattern Dance level; C, S, is a hold error; D, e, a choreographic error.
Source: ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27 · 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.
- ISU Ice Dance Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/2711
- ISU Ice Dance Technical Panel Handbook 2026/279