Understanding Ice Dance: A Beginner's Guide (Part III: Choreo Elements, Scoring & The Top Teams)

An introduction to Ice Dance, in 3 parts:
Part I: Introduction & The Rhythm Dance -    • Understanding Ice Dance: A Beginner's...  
Part II: The Free Dance -    • Understanding Ice Dance: A Beginner's...  
Part III: Choreo Elements, Scoring & The Top Teams -    • Understanding Ice Dance: A Beginner's...  

I've tried to find clips which show elements clearly and to use many different current and recently retired ice dance teams, some may be featured more than once. Apologies if your favourite team is not featured!

Featured Skaters:
Alexandra Nazarova & Maxim Nikitin (Ukraine)
Alexandra Stepanova & Ivan Bukin (Russia)
Anna Cappellini & Luca Lanotte (Italy)
Betina Popova & Sergey Mozgov (Russia)
Carolane Soucisse & Shane Firus (Canada)
Charlène Guignard & Marco Fabbri (Italy)
Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko (Canada)
Gabriella Papadakis & Guillaume Cizeron (France)
Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean Luc Baker (USA)
Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje (Canada)
Laurence Fournier Beaudy & Nikolaj Sørensen (Canada)
Lilah Fear & Lewis Gibson (Great Britain)
Madison Chock & Evan Bates (USA)
Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue (USA)
Marie-Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac (France)
Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha (Canada)
Olivia Smart & Adrián Díaz (Spain)
Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier (Canada)
Sara Hurtardo & Kirill Khaliavin (Spain)
Shiyue Wang & Xinyu Lui (China)
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir (Canada)
Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov (Russia)

Pair Teams:
Aljona Savchenko & Bruno Massot (Germany)
Meagan Duhamel & Eric Radford (Canada)
Nicole Della Monica & Matteo Guarise (Italy)

Information from:
‘Ice Dance’ definition:
https://www.lexico.com/definition/ice...

Technical Information:
https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/ru...
https://www.isu.org/docman-documents-...

Protocols:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_In...
http://www.isuresults.com/results/sea...