Tupac and Dean? Hip-Hop Approved for Ice Dance

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Ice dancers will be allowed to perform to hip-hop in junior competitions from next season, the sport’s governing body said Thursday.

Ice dancers will be allowed to perform to hip-hop in junior competitions from next season, the sport’s governing body said Thursday.

The music will have to have a clear rhythm and no swearing will be tolerated, officials said in comments cited by icenetwork.com.

Famous names such as world No. 1 pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White will have to wait, as the panel gave no indication when or if the rule change would be extended to senior competition.

“It must have a clear rhythm,” ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee chairwoman Halina Gordon-Poltrak said.

“And we do not want to hear any obscenities," committee member Bob Horen said. "You coaches should check the lyrics."

Unlike in figure skating, ice dancers can perform to rhythmic music with lyrics, but the ISU World Congress will reportedly discuss extending this to figure skating at a meeting in June.

For the 2013-14 season, including the Winter Olympics in Sochi, senior ice dancers will be able to dance the Finnstep, a type of quickstep, officials said.

The committee also said that the short dance next year for senior competitions will include the Yankee polka, which dancers will be able to combine with a polka, march or waltz rhythm.

Ice dance set to hi-hop is a far cry from the classical ballroom style popularized in Britain by 1984 Sarajevo Olympics gold medalists Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

 

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