page_title: Compulsory dance
section_title: Dances
hierarchical_section_title: Compulsory dance / Dances
caption_attribution_description: English: Jana Khokhlova &amp; Sergei Novitski during their Yankee Polka compulsory dance at the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships Русский: Яна Хохлова и Сергей Новицкий на чемпионате Европы 2008 года. Обязательный танец - Янки-полька
context_page_description: The compulsory dance, now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the couples or solo dancers perform the same standardized steps and holds to music of a specified tempo and genre. One or more compulsory dances were usually skated as the first phase of ice dancing competitions. The 2009–10 season was the final season in which the segment was included in International Skating Union junior and senior level competition. In June 2010, the ISU replaced the name "compulsory dance" with "pattern dance" for ice dance, and merged it into the short dance beginning in the 2010–11 figure skating season.
  The first CDs were developed during the 1930s by teams from Great Britain, who dominated ice dance for most of the early years after the sport was contested at the 1952 World Championships. The prominence of the CD in ice dance slowly declined, until it was removed and replaced by the SD in 2011, the year that the ISU voted to restructure ice dance competitions by removing the compulsory dance and original dance and replacing them with the short dance and free dance.
context_section_description: The dances that have been performed in junior and senior international competition include the following, which is not a comprehensive list:
  In 2016, the ISU added three new pattern dances for the 2018–2022 Olympic cycle.  These dances were: the March, created by ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier, along with their coaches Carol Lane and Juris Razgulajevs; the Foxtrot, created by Natalia Kaliszek and Maksim Spodirev and their coach Sylwia Nowak-Trebacka; and the Rhumba d'Amor, created by Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean in 1993 and performed for the first time at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki.
caption: Jana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitski on a backward outside edge as they perform the Yankee Polka
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