Ice Dance Rules & Resources

Latest Updates & Clarifications:

8/1/24 - Detailed composition, presentation and skating skills charts provided by the ISU were posted below.

7/8/24 - ISU Communications #2646 and #2647, providing the calling specifications & levels of difficulty, and the scale of values for 2024-25, respectively, were posted.

7/8/24 - The 2024-25 ice dance deduction charts were posted.

7/4/24 - The Judging Reminders for Ice Dance were posted.

6/24/24 - ISU Communication #2630 with the ice dance technical requirements and marking guides for 2024-25 was updated to incorporate the decisions made by the ISU Congress.

General Information:

• Rulebook
• Additions to the ISU Ice Dancing Music Rhythms Booklet - Spanish Dance Rhythms (Revised 4/3/14, PDF)
• Additions to the ISU Dancing Music Rhythms Booklet - Hip Hop (7/17/14, PDF)
• Planned Program Content Sheet (PDF) 
• Planned Program Content Sheet Instructions (PDF) 

Technical Information:

Visit the Technical Notifications page to view all active TNs.

For the Standard Event List and Program Requirements, visit Skater Journey - Competing - Overview. 

• 2024-25 Pattern Dance Key Points for Juvenile, Intermediate and Novice (PDF, 5/2/24)

• 2024-25 Ice Dance Deductions for Novice and Below and Adult (PDF, 7/8/24)
• 2024-25 Ice Dance Deductions for Junior and Senior (PDF, 7/8/24)
• Ice Dance Deductions for U.S. Figure Skating 6.0 Events (PDF, 7/8/24)

• Pattern Dance Scale of Values with Sequences/Sections (No Key Points) (PDF, 5/13/19)

• Skaters' Choice Pattern Dance Timing Chart for Pre-Juvenile through Novice (PDF, 7/13/23)
• 2023-24 Skater's Choice Adult Partnered and Solo Pattern Dance Timing Chart (PDF, 10/31/23)

ISU Communications and Q&As:

• ISU Communication #2647 - Ice Dance - Scale of Values 2024-25 (PDF, posted 7/8/24)
• ISU Communication #2646 - Ice Dance - Calling Specifications & Levels of Difficulty 2024-25 (PDF, posted 7/8/24)
• ISU Communication #2630 - Ice Dance - Requirements for Technical Rules & Marking Guides 2024-25 (PDF, updated 6/24/24)

Technical Panel Information:

• ISU Technical Panel Handbook - Ice Dance (PDF, 9/5/23)
  Note: This document has been prepared for ISU technical panels for all international events, and U.S. Figure Skating technical panels will follow it for its events. Any further ISU changes to these documents will be posted on this web site.

• Ice Dance Calling Clarifications for Novice and Below (PDF, 8/4/22) 
• Juvenile Free Dance and Adult Free Dance Twizzle Calling Specifications (PDF, 7/20/11)

• Technical Panel Error Correction Protocol (PDF, 7/1/23)

Judges and Referees Information:

• How Should the Referee Check the Duration of a Lift (PDF, 7/25/19)
   
• 2024-25 Marking Guide for GOEs for Ice Dance (PDF, 6/24/24)
• Program Component Chart (Pattern Dance) (PDF, 6/24/24)
• Program Component Chart (Rhythm Dance and Free Dance) (PDF, 6/24/24)
• Composition, Presentation and Skating Skills Charts (PDF, 8/1/24)

• 2024-25 Judging Reminders for Ice Dance (PDF, 7/4/24)

Seminars/Webinars:

• Grades of Execution +5 to -5 ISU Webinar - Ice Dance (7/13/18)
• ISU Finnstep Instructional Video (7/8/19)
• ISU Tea-Time Foxtrot Training Video (5/23/19)
• Videos from the Tea-Time Foxtrot Seminar in Detroit (7/8/19)

Pattern Dance Music Downloads:

• Preliminary Pattern Dances
• Pre-Bronze Pattern Dances
• Bronze Pattern Dances
• Pre-Silver Pattern Dances
• Silver Pattern Dances
• Pre-Gold Pattern Dances
• Gold Pattern Dances
• International Pattern Dances - Cha Cha Congelado, Rhumba, Silver Samba, Tango Romantica, Yankee Polka
• International Pattern Dances - Austrian Waltz, Golden Waltz and Ravensburger Waltz

Note: U.S. Figure Skating does not currently have music for the Finnstep, Midnight Blues or Tea-Time Foxtrot. Music may be available for purchase from the ISU.