{"id":42793,"date":"2026-03-10T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/?page_id=42793"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:06:14","slug":"blues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/reference\/pattern-dance-charts-descriptions\/blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Music \u2013 Blues<br>Tempo \u2013 22 measures of 4 beats per minute<br>\u2013 88 beats per minute<br>Pattern \u2013 optional<br>Duration \u2013 The time required to skate 3 sequences is 1:14 min.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Blues.pdf\">Patterns, Step Charts &amp; Additional Information<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues should be skated with strong edges and deep knee bends to achieve the desired expression. The man begins the dance with a cross roll moving form outside the closed position while step 1 for the lady is crossed behind. The lady crosses in front on step 2 while her partner skate a progressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inventors \u2013 Robert Dench and Lesley Turner<br \/>First Performance \u2013 London, Streatham Ice Rink, 1934<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music \u2013 BluesTempo \u2013 22 measures of 4 beats per minute\u2013 88 beats per minutePattern \u2013 optionalDuration \u2013 The time required to skate 3 sequences is 1:14 min. Patterns, Step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_gspb_post_css":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-42793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"et-pb-post-main-image":false,"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":false,"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Team IDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/author\/idcadmin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Music \u2013 BluesTempo \u2013 22 measures of 4 beats per minute\u2013 88 beats per minutePattern \u2013 optionalDuration \u2013 The time required to skate 3 sequences is 1:14 min. Patterns, Step [&hellip;]","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7GOSM-b8d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42794,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42793\/revisions\/42794"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}