# Performance · Figure Skating Level 7: Upper-Advanced

Figure Skating · Level 7: Upper-Advanced · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/figure-skating/level-7/performance/)

Performance in Figure Skating (Level 7: Upper-Advanced) on Insporta: 20 sourced facts behind 2 tests. Covers: performing the program.

Expressiveness, projection, energy, and performing together as one.

## Test 1: Performing the program

- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))

## Test 2: Performing together

- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- Equal understanding and feeling for the music's details and nuances creates an entity greater than one skater. (Source: Skate Ontario, Three Program Components: Key Reminders and Guidance for Judges (2023))
- 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))
- 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)
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))
- 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))

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.

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