Ice dance
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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
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
Rhythm dance
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The rhythm dance is the first segment of an ice dance competition. The International Skating Union renamed the short dance to the "rhythm dance" in June 2018, prior to the 2018–2019 season. It became
Ice dance
…original dance (OD), and the free dance (FD). In 2010, the ISU voted to change the competition format by eliminating the CD and the OD and adding the new short dance (SD) segment to the competition schedule. In 2018, the ISU voted to rename the short dance to the rhythm dance (RD). Ice dance has required elements…
Madison Chock and Evan Bates at the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships