{"id":20675,"date":"2019-04-30T21:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/?p=20675"},"modified":"2020-02-16T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:13:52","slug":"ask-idc-q-a-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/ask-idc-q-a-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask IDC Q & A #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to this week\u2019s Ask IDC Question & Answer (Q&A)! Thank you for submitting all of your great questions.\u00a0 This week’s edition focuses on ice dance technical and\/or historical information.<\/p>\n

What are the newest Pattern Dances to be adopted by the ISU and who created them?
\n<\/strong>The three newest Pattern Dances are the Tea-Time Foxtrot and\u00a0 Maple Leaf March and Rhumba d\u2019Amor.\u00a0 The Tea-Time Foxtrot was created by Poland’s Natalie Kaliszek & Maksym Spodyriev with their coach, Sylwia Nowak-Trebacka.\u00a0 The Maple Leaf March was created by Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier of Canada, with their coaches Carol Lane and Juris Razgulajevs.\u00a0 Both patterns were based on steps in the short dances skated by Kaliszek & Spodyriev and Gilles & Poirier during the 2015-2016 season.\u00a0 Also newly added is the Rhumba d’Amor, which was created by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean and first performed at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Tea-Time Foxtrot will debut as a pattern in the Rhythm Dance for teams at the junior level during the 2019-2020 season.<\/p>\n

How many Olympic ice dance medals has the USA won?
\n<\/strong>The USA has won five (5) ice dance medals.\u00a0 Colleen O’Connor & Jim Millns won the first Olympic medal in ice dance, a bronze, in 1976.\u00a0 Thirty years later, Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto won the silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.\u00a0 The United States has won a medal in ice dance at each of the Winter Olympics since 2006, with Meryl Davis & Charlie White claiming silver in 2010 and becoming the first U.S. team to win Olympic gold in ice dance in 2014.\u00a0 Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani won the bronze medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.\u00a0 Davis & White also won a bronze medal as part of the inaugural team event in 2014 and the Shibutanis were part of Team USA’s team bronze medal win in 2018. <\/p>\n

<\/span>When was the last World Championships to include the compulsory dance? What was the dance?<\/strong>
\nHeld in Torino, Italy, the 2010 World Figure Skating Championships was the last event to include the compulsory dance as part of the competition.\u00a0 After 2010, the compulsory and original dances were merged into the short dance.\u00a0 The<\/span> Golden Waltz was the compulsory dance performed in Torino.<\/p>\n

What is the \u201cTV Rule\u201c for ice dance that affects the starting order for the final group only at the U.S. Championships?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0
\nThe final group consists of five couples.\u00a0 The top three finishers in the rhythm dance will be the last to skate in the final group and t<\/span>hey will draw from the first subgroup.\u00a0\u00a0The fourth and fifth place finishers in the rhythm dance will be the first to skate in the final group. They will draw from the second subgroup.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a wrap for this week’s Q & A!\u00a0 You can submit a question via our Ask IDC Q & A form<\/a>.\u00a0 The goal is to answer a few each week, so if your question is not covered in this edition, check back next week.\u00a0 Some questions may require us to reach out to technical experts before we can respond, so please be patient.<\/p>\n

Until next time,<\/p>\n

Daphne, Anne & Team IDC<\/p>\n

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