Ice Dance | Compulsory dance | Olympic Games Vancouver 2010

NBC commentary by Tom Hammond and Tracy Wilson.

The compulsory dance was the Tango Romantica. It was created in 1974 by Lyudmila Pakhomova, Aleksandr Gorshkov and Elena Tchaikovskaia.

Skating order:
1. Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (ITA)
2. Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali (ITA)
3. Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)
4. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)
5. Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS)

Compulsory dance results: TOP 3
1. Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS)
2. Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)
3. Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)

The Compulsory dance (CDs), 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. Ice dancers performed the same pattern around the rink once or twice, to the same step sequences and the same standardized tempo. The competitors were then scored based on their execution of the various elements of the dance. The CD allowed the judges to compare the technical skills of each dancer.One or more compulsory dances were usually skated as the first phase of ice dancing competitions.

The 2009-2010 season was the final season in which the segment was competed in International Skating Union (ISU) junior and senior level competition. In June 2010, the ISU replaced the name "compulsory dance" with "pattern dance" for ice dancing, and merged it into the short dance beginning in the 2010-2011 figure skating season.