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PRELIMINARY VERSION Judging System Handbook for Technical Panels Ice Dance (preliminary version) As of 19.6.2014 PRELIMINARY VERSION Summary Basic principles of calling [.] Required Elements for Short Dance and Well Balanced Free Dance Program Required Elements for Short Dance – definition Well Balanced Free Dance Program – definition Specifications to common Short Dance and Free Dance Required Elements Pattern Dance Elements Additional principles of calling Definitions Additional definitions, specifications to definitions and notes Key Points Quickstep Key Points Finnstep Characteristics of Levels Adjustments to Levels Questions and answers (clarification to Regulations and Communications) Questions and answers (application of Regulations and Communications) Dance Spins Additional principles of calling Definitions Additional definitions, specifications to definitions and notes Characteristics of Levels Adjustments to Levels Questions and answers (clarifications) Questions and answers (application cases) Dance Lifts Additional principles of calling Definitions Additional definitions, specifications to definitions and notes Characteristics of Levels Adjustments to Levels Questions and answers (clarifications) Questions and answers (application cases) Sets of Twizzles Additional principles of calling Definitions Additional definitions, specifications to definitions and notes Characteristics of Levels Adjustments to Levels Questions and answers (clarifications) Questions and answers (application cases) Step Sequences Additional principles of calling Definitions Additional definitions, specifications to definitions and notes Characteristics of Levels Adjustments to Levels Questions and answers (clarifications) Questions and answers (application cases) Illegal Elements/Movements and Falls Definitions Questions and answers (clarifications) Questions and answers (application cases) Deductions – who is responsible Deduction chart Questions and answers (clarifications) Questions and answers (application cases) Drawings Drawings Description, chart and diagram of Silver Samba Description, chart and diagram of Paso Doble PRELIMINARY VERSION Category: Ice Dance Subject: Basic principles of calling Source 1. The Technical Panel shall identify what is performed despite what is listed on the Program Content Sheet. Communication 1860 2. Adjustments to Levels shall apply to the Level determined according to the Characteristics of Levels fulfilled. They shall not result in giving No Level to a Required Element as long as the requirements for Level 1 are met. 3. To be given any Level, a Required Element must meet all the requirements for Level 1. 4. If a program concludes with the partners performing an element, the element and its Level shall be identified until the movement stops completely. 5. Elements started after the required duration of the program (plus the 10 seconds allowed) shall not be identified. 6. Dance Spins and Dance Lifts performed in required Step Sequences (including Partial Step Sequence) shall be identified as per the respective additional principles of calling and given No Level. 7. Set of Twizzles performed in required Step Sequences (including Partial Step Sequences) shall not be identified. 8. The Technical Panel shall decide whether any feature to fulfill the Characteristics of Levels is given credit, unless this feature is expressly designated as not eligible for Level in the present Communication or in the Handbook for Technical Panels (for example, in a Dance Spin, the Technical Panel can give credit for Level to a variation of Basic Position Camel which is not included in the list of examples, but cannot give credit to a simple camel by the lady). If there is an illegal movement during the execution of any element, the deduction for an illegal movement will apply and the Rule 504, § 2 element will receive Level 1 if the requirements for at least Level 1 are fulfilled. Otherwise the element will be called No Level. For Basic Novice Free Dance, in all Required Elements, only features up to Level 2 will be counted. Any additional features will Communication 1857 not count for Level requirements and will be ignored by the Technical Panel. File name: Handbook for Technical Panels 2014 draft Page 3 of 103 Version: 2014 Date: 31.7.14 D – Basic principles of calling PRELIMINARY VERSION Category: Ice Dance Subject: Basic principles of calling Questions (clarifications) Answers Comments None File name: Handbook for Technical Panels 2014 draft Page 4 of 103 Version: 2014 Date: 31.7.14 D – Basic principles of calling PRELIMINARY VERSION Category: Ice Dance Subject: Basic principles of calling Questions (application cases) Answers Comments What happens if an element is started after the If the element is started before the required music has stopped? duration of the program (plus the 10 seconds allowed), the Technical Panel will call it. If the element is started after the required duration of the program (plus 10 seconds allowed), the Technical Panel will ignore it. What happens if a Dance Spin and a Dance Lift The Technical Panel will identify the Dance Spin The same principle applies if the Dance Lift is are performed as a combination? until the lifted partner is elevated into the Dance concluded by the Dance Spin. Lift and will identify the Dance Lift from that moment. File name: Handbook for Technical Panels 2014 draft Page 5 of 103 Version: 2014 Date: 31.7.14 D – Basic principles of calling PRELIMINARY VERSION Category: Ice Dance Subject: Required Elements for Short Dance and Well Balanced Free Dance Program Required Elements for Short Dance – definition Source The list of Required Elements to be included into composition of the Short Dance and specific requirements for these elements Rule 709, § 2 will be announced in an ISU Communication annually. Season 2014/15 (Communication 1857) Pattern Dance Element and . One (1) Pattern Dance Element: Sequence of Paso Doble, with Step # 1 skated on the Judges’ left side, Partial Step Sequence . One (1) Partial Step Sequence in Hold: (Senior) - pattern: one full circuit of the ice surface starting and finishing at the finishing point of the Pattern Dance Element; - duration: any exact number of four measures musical phrases; - Key Points listed in paragraph 4 below must be included. They can be skated in any Dance Hold or variation except Hand-in-Hand Hold with extended arms. Key Points 1 (Lady) and 2 (Man) must be skated together approximately at the same place as Key Point 1 of the Pattern Dance Element. Key Point 3 (Lady and Man) must be skated approximately at the same place as Key Point 3 of the Pattern Dance Element and must conclude the Partial Step Sequence; - Holds: by exception to Rule 603, paragraph 4, first bullet, Hand-in-Hand Hold with extended arms cannot be used and partners must remain in contact at all times, even during changes of Holds and allowed stop; skated one after the other, Pattern Dance Element followed by Partial Step Sequence. Pattern Dance Elements Two (2) Sequences of Silver Samba, skated separately. Step #1 of each Sequence must be skated on a different (Junior) side of the ice surface. Specifications: . The description, chart and diagrams of the Pattern Dances are included in the ISU Handbook Ice Dance 2003. Dance Lift Not more than one (1) Short Lift Step Sequence (Senior) One (1) Not Touching Midline or Diagonal Step Sequence Step Sequence (Junior) One (1) Not Touching Midline, Diagonal or Circular Step Sequence Set of Sequential Twizzles One (1) File name: Handbook for Technical Panels 2014 draft Page 6 of 103 Version: 2014 Date: 31.7.14 D – Required Elements for Short Dance and Well Balanced Free Dance Program PRELIMINARY VERSION Category: Ice Dance Subject: Required Elements for Short Dance and Well Balanced Free Dance Program Well Balanced Free Dance Program – definition Source The list of Required Elements to be included in a Well-Balanced Program for Novice, Junior and Senior Free Dances and the specific Rule 710, § 2 requirements for those elements will be announced in an ISU Communication annually. Season 2014/15 Senior Junior Advanced Novice Basic Novice (Communication 1857) (Communication 1857) (Communication 1857) (Communication 1857) Dance Lifts Not more than Not more than Not more than Not more than - one (1) Short Lift and one (1) - one (1) Combination Lift, two (2) different Types of one (1) Short Lift Combination Lift (the Type of or Short Lifts Short Lift must be different - two (2) different Types of from the Type(s) of Short Lift Short Lifts forming the Combination Lift), or - three (3) different Types of Short Lifts Dance Spins One (1) Dance Spin (Spin or Combination Spin) but not more One (1) Spin, but not more * Step Sequences One (1) Straight Line Step Sequence (Midline or Diagonal) in Hold One (1) Straight Line (Midline or Diagonal) or Curved (Circular or Serpentine) Step Sequence in Hold One (1) Curved Step Sequence (Circular or Serpentine) in Hold Set of Synchronized One (1) Twizzles Choreographic Either a: Element (Senior and . Choreographic Dance Lift: Dance Lift of up to ten (10) seconds, performed after all the other required Dance Lifts, or a Junior only) . Choreographic Spinning Movement: spinning movement performed after the required Dance Spin during which both partners performs at least 2 continuous rotations: - in any hold, - on one foot or two feet or one partner being elevated without being sustained, or a combination of the three, - on a common axis which may be moving. * Note for Basic The Dance Spin
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