Figure Skating · Level 7: Upper-Advanced · Sub-level 7.3
Performance
2 tests · 20 facts · updated 20 October 2026 · markdown
Expressiveness, projection, energy, and performing together as one.
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 1Performing the programTake a test
When performing, the skater embodies the composition and brings it to life in their own way.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
The skater personalises the composition and delivers it to the audience, captivating them.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
Through expressiveness the skater gives viewers a piece of themselves and arouses emotions.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
Expressiveness and projection convey a mood, feeling, image, rhythm or style from the music and composition.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
Serious errors include falls, interruptions, big losses of balance or control and a sustained disconnection from the program.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
The program's design stays the same; how it is delivered can change from one day to the next.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
The force and movement done should vary throughout the program: variety and contrast of energy and movements.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
The skater embodies the composition, makes it personal throughout, and delivers it, captivating the viewers.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · applied
Inspired by the music and the composition, the skater expresses a mood or image and arouses the viewers' emotions.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · applied
B rises and falls with clear peaks and calm passages. A stays flat, C only climbs, D wobbles in a narrow band.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · applied
Test 2Performing togetherTake a test
Unison is the same technique; oneness is the ability to perform as one.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
Oneness is the ability to perform as one, with equal expressiveness and sensitivity to the music.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
It is knowing where the other skaters are without looking, managing distance and holds with ease.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
With notable differences between skaters, the mark reflects the unit as a whole.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
An error by both partners, at the same time or not, counts as two errors.
Source: ISU Communication 2788, Levels of Difficulty and GOE Guidelines, Single & Pair Skating 2026/27 · recall
Awareness of space includes managing distance between skaters and the easy management of holds.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · recall
Equal expressiveness and the same sensitivity to the music lead to oneness, an entity greater than one skater.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · applied
Awareness of space lets partners know where the other is and manage holds easily, without looking.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · applied
A keeps an almost constant gap. B, C and D swing between close and far apart.
Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023) · applied
Sources
Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023); ISU Communication 2788 (2026/27); ISU Handbook for Referees & Judges 2026/27; ISU Sports Rules, Figure Skating (2026), Rules 365 and 450; Stars on Ice and Art on Ice histories. Original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Music, clothing and eligibility rules belong to General Rules.
- Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023)19
- ISU Communication 2788, Levels of Difficulty and GOE Guidelines, Single & Pair Skating 2026/271