2008 Buckeye Adult Open – Planned Events

Dance Events

 

 

DANCE EVENTS:

In the dance event, skaters may only skate on one team. Tests from any dance testing track--Standard, Adult, and/or Masters—satisfy the test requirements/restrictions.  Age groups may be combined depending on the number of entries in each event. The number of patterns to be danced will be determined by the current US Figure Skating rulebook.  Music for each dance will be provided by the Competition Committee.

 

Gold Dance - One partner must have passed at least one Gold dance and the other partner must have passed at least one Pre-Gold dance.

á       Final Round: Viennese Waltz, Silver Samba. 

 

Pre-Gold Dance - One partner must have passed at least one Pre-Gold dance and the other partner must have passed at least one Silver dance. Neither partner may have completed the Gold Dance Test.

á       Final Round: Tango, Blues. 

 

Silver Dance - One partner must have passed at least one Silver dance and the other partner must have passed at least one Pre- Silver dance. Neither partner may have passed more than one Pre-Gold dance.

á       Final Round: Fourteenstep, Blues

 

Pre-Silver Dance – One partner must have passed at least one Pre-Silver dance and the other partner must have passed at least one Bronze dance.  Neither partner may have passed more than one Silver dance. 

á       Final Round: Fourteenstep, Tango.

 

Bronze Dance - One partner must have passed at least one Bronze dance and the other partner must have passed at least one Pre-Bronze dance. Neither partner may have passed more than one Silver dance.

á       Final Round: Willow Waltz, Fourteenstep

 

Pre-Bronze Dance -- One partner in the Pre-Bronze Dance event must have passed at least one Pre-Bronze dance and the other partner must have passed at least the Preliminary Dance Test. Neither partner may have passed any Pre-Silver dances.

á       Final Round: Fiesta Tango, Willow Waltz

 

 

SOLO DANCE EVENTS:

Competitors in the Solo Dance events may choose any number of dances listed below that are at the test level that he or she has partially completed, completed, or one level higher than he or she has completed. Age groups may be combined depending on the number of entries in each event.   Skaters may enter more than one solo dance event.  Two (2) patterns will be skated for each dance, and music will be provided by the Competition Committee.

 

International          Cha Cha Congelado

Gold                      Westminster Waltz

Pre-Gold                Kilian

Silver                    Tango

Pre-Silver             Foxtrot

Bronze                   Hickory Hoedown

Pre-Bronze            Cha Cha

Preliminary           Dutch Waltz

 

 


OPEN PARTNER DANCE EVENTS:

 

The 2008 Buckeye Adult Open is pleased to offer an Open Partner Dance event.  In the Open Partner Dance event, a dance couple may consist of two eligible skaters or an eligible skater and a coach.  An eligible skater is defined as a skater in good standing with US Figure Skating as per s/b 3056 in the 2008-09 Rulebook.  A coach is defined as a person, eligible or ineligible, who receives direct financial benefit for instructing figure skating. 

 

The intention of the Open Partner Dance event is to allow skaters the opportunity to compete in a partnered dance even if they do not have a competitive partner (akin to the way that skaters partner with other skaters for test sessions or social ice dance weekends).  Dance couples who normally compete together in partnered dance may also enter the Open Partner Dance events.

 

Each dance couple will consist of a ÒprimaryÓ skater and a partner.  The primary skater must be an eligible skater, and must be skating at the test level that he or she has completed or partially completed, or one level higher than he or she has completed.  There is no testing limitation for the primary skaterÕs partner, regardless of if the partner is a coach or another eligible skater.  (For example, a pre-bronze lady may skate with her coach, or may skate with a friend who is a silver man.)

 

In the Open Partner Dance event, each unique pairing is considered a separate competitive couple.  A coach may enter with more than one skater in the same event.  Likewise, an eligible skater may enter in more than one event, and may enter as a primary skater or as a partner.  Couples may be of similar or opposite gender.  Each dance is a separate event.

 

Age groups may be combined depending on the number of entries in each event.  The number of patterns to be danced will be determined by the current US Figure Skating rulebook.  Music for each dance will be provided by the Competition Committee. Medals will be awarded for eligible skaters who are skating as either primary skaters or partners.

 

Gold Dance – The primary skater must have completed at least the Silver Dance test.

á       Quickstep

 

Pre-Gold Dance - The primary skater must have completed at least the Pre-Silver Dance test and may not have passed the Gold Dance test.

á       Blues

 

Silver Dance - The primary skater must have completed at least the Bronze Dance test and may not have passed the Pre-Gold Dance test.

á        Rocker Foxtrot

 

Pre-Silver Dance – The primary skater must have completed at least the Pre-Bronze Dance test and may not have passed the Silver Dance test.

á        Foxtrot

 

Bronze Dance - The primary skater must have completed at least the Preliminary Dance test and may not have passed the Pre-Silver Dance test.

á       Ten Fox

 

Pre-Bronze Dance -- The primary skater must have completed at least one Preliminary Dance test and may not have passed the Bronze Dance test.

á       Swing Dance

 

Preliminary Dance -- The primary skater may not have passed the Pre-Bronze Dance test.

á       Canasta Tango