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Dance Assessment Resource Guide

Canada · English · 160 pages

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Dance Assessment Resource Guide February 2026 Copyright © 2026 Skate Canada 82 STAR 9C – Silver Samba Music Tempo Pattern Inventor Samba 2/4 • 54 measures of 4 beats per minute • 108 beats per minute Optional Courtney J.L. Jones and Peri V. Horne First Performed London, Queen’s Ice Rink, 1963 Description The dance begins with the partners in Kilian hold as they skate two run sequences. Steps 4 and 8, after each run sequence, are skated as a “quick cross-over slip RFI”. This is a movement in which the right free foot during the third step (LFO) of the run is held at full extension, and as it takes the ice for steps 4 and 8 (RFI cross), the left foot on becoming the free foot is quickly slipped behind and sideways across the tracing just clear of the ice, becoming fully extended and pointing downward to accentuate the rhythm. Skater A (the follow) then skates an open swing three turn into closed hold, with a brief lift of the free leg after the turn (step 9) while skater B (the lead) skates a slide chassé with the free foot passing forward (steps 9 a and 9 b). Then the partners dance a series of chassés in the character of the Samba (steps 10–17) on a curved pattern. Steps 12–13 and 16–17 are skated as slide chassés with skater B (the lead) slipping their left free leg turned out and forward while the follow matches by extending their right free leg backward. On step 18 the partners skate a two-beat deep inside swing roll (lead LFI, follow RBI). Then they skate a series of chassés away from the centre of the rink toward the barrier on an evenly curved pattern (steps 19 – 22). Step 23 is a two-beat swing. After both partners skate a chassé (steps 24 – 25), skater B (the lead) skates a three turn into Kilian hold (step 26) while skater A (the follow) skates a RBO followed by a LBI cross-in-front to join skater B (the lead) in skating a RBO for 3 beats (step 27). The timing of skater B’s (the lead’s) three (step 26) is unusual in that they step on count 4 and turns on count 1 of the measure. Both partners then skate a cross roll LBO (step 28) and on step 29 a cross-in-front right back inside and change of edge to outside with a triple swing of the free leg (forward, back, forward to coincide with the music). The rest of the dance is skated in Kilian hold, and after steps 30 and 31 the remaining steps consist of four step-chassé-step sequences (the so-called “inside chassés” as the second and third step of each are inside edges – steps 33 & 34, 36 &37, 39 & 40, and 42 & 43a), five slip/slide steps, and two inside edges with the free leg held behind, crossing the tracing. The timing of the slip steps is one, one, half (1/2), half (1/2), one (although for this last slip step – step 47- the foot remains on the ice for ½ a beat, before the ½ beat leg lift). A tuck action of the foot is required on the two inside edges steps 48 and 49. Individual interpretation by couples to add Samba character is permitted provided that the integrity of steps, free leg positions and holds is maintained. Suggested Introductory Steps Skater B (Lead): RFO (2), LFO (2), RFO, (1), LFI-Pr (1), RFI (2), LFI* (2), RFI* (2) Skater A (Follow): RFO (2), LFO (2), RFO, (1), LFI-Pr (1), RFI (2), LFI* (2), RFI* (2) *option to complete tuck action of the foot on inside edges for introductory steps