Contestant and professional," Dance on Ice, London. (Image from Oriental IC)
Ice dance (ice dance) is a performance of a couple of men and women who perform some dance footwork and dance postures on the ice accompanied by the rhythm of music.
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It originated in figure skating, and after years of evolution, it has gone beyond the scope of figure skating, thus forming a separate ice and snow sport. (Image from Oriental IC)
Ice dance is different from figure skating for men and women, it is more focused on dance steps, and there are strict restrictions on technical movements: (Image from Oriental IC)
Typical double skating movements and jumping and spinning movements of single skating are not allowed, such as too much, too high or more than a week and a half of lifting, too many and too long separations of two people (image from Oriental IC)
The jumping of two people at the same time, as well as too much styling, etc., are more taboo to pull each other's posture and the modeling action of sitting, leaning and lying on the other person in the sliding. The above movements appear in the ice dance competition and are deducted points. (Image from Oriental IC)
The delegates made the decision to reform ice dance, the original prescribed dance and creative choreography were abolished, replaced by a new "short dance", free dance unchanged, this reform will continue until the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. (Image from Oriental IC)
There are several different jumps including: The Post-Knot Ring Week Jump, the Lutz Jump, axel Jump and Sachoff Jump. One of the most difficult jumps is to complete the three-week jump, and the three-week Lutz jump helps the three-week Sachoff jump. (Image from Oriental IC)
Some of the basic coherent movements of ice dance are: the Shasai step side step quick skating, the Chocta step and the Moho step. (Image from Oriental IC)
Philip Sfeld's Dance on Ice TV show (Image from Oriental IC)
Candice Brown and Matt Evers, Dance on Ice TV, London (Image from Oriental IC)