Ice dance, a discipline of figure skating, has required elements that make up a well-balanced rhythm dance program and free dance program, which must be performed during competitions. They include: th
Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani performing a twizzle, a required element in ice dance
Lilia Schubert and Nikita Remeshevskiy from Germany performing an ice dance lift (2025)
Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski perform an upright/Biellmann spin
Cecilia Törn and Jussiville Partanen
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Ice dance is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 19
Competition elements in ice dance
…Ice dance, a discipline of figure skating, has required elements that make up a well-balanced rhythm dance program and free dance program, which must be performed…
Ice dance in 1976, its first year as an official Olympic sport (Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov)
Jackson Haines, the "father of figure skating"
Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman in 1965
Torvill and Dean performing in 2011