Editing Ice dance (section)

===Early years===
[[File:Eva Romanová and Pavel Roman 1965.jpg|upright=1.0|thumb|left|[[Eva Romanová]] and [[Pavel Roman]] in 1965]]

By the early 1900s, ice dance was popular around the world and was primarily a recreational sport, although during the 1920s, local clubs in Britain and the U.S. conducted informal dance contests in the ten-step, the fourteen-step, and the killian, which were the only three dances used in competition until the 1930s.{{Sfn|Kestnbaum|2003|p=221}}{{Snf|Hines|2006|p=124}} Recreational skating became more popular during the 1930s in England, and new and more difficult set-pattern dances, which later were used in compulsory dances during competitions, were developed.{{Snf|Kestnbaum|2003|p=222}} According to Hines, the development of new ice dances was necessary to expand upon the three dances already developed; three British teams in the 1930s—[[Erik van der Wyden]] and [[Eva Keats]], [[Reginald Wilkie]] and [[Daphne B. Wallis]], and [[Robert Dench]] and [[Rosemarie Stewart]]—created one-fourth of the dances used in [[International Skating Union]] (ISU) competitions by 2006. In 1933, the Westminster Skating Club conducted a competition encouraging the creation of new dances.{{Snf|Hines|2006|pp=123–124}} Beginning in the mid-1930s, national organizations began to introduce skating proficiency tests in set-pattern dances, improve the judging of dance tests, and oversee competitions. The first national competitions occurred in England in 1934, Canada in 1935, the U.S. in 1936, and Austria in 1937. These competitions included one or more compulsory dances, the original dance, and the free dance.{{Snf|Kestnbaum|2003|p=222}}{{Snf|Hines|2011|p=102}} By the late 1930s, ice dancers swelled memberships in skating clubs throughout the world, and in Hines' words "became the backbone of skating clubs".{{Snf|Hines|2006|p=124}}

The ISU began to develop rules, standards, and international tests for ice dance in the 1950s.{{Snf|Kestnbaum|2003|p=223}} The first international ice dance competition occurred as a special event during the [[1950 World Figure Skating Championships]] in London; [[Lois Waring]] and [[Michael McGean]] of the U.S. won the event, much to the embarrassment of the British, who considered themselves the best ice dancers in the world.{{Snf|Hines|2006|pp=173–174}} A second event was planned the following year, at the [[1951 World Figure Skating Championships|1951 World Championships]] in Milan; [[Jean Westwood (figure skater)|Jean Westwood]] and [[Lawrence Demmy]] of Great Britain came in first place.{{Snf|Hines|2006|p=174}} Ice dance, with the CD and FD segments, was formally added to the [[1952 World Figure Skating Championships|World Championships in 1952]].{{Snf|Kestnbaum|2003|p=223}} Westwood and Demmy won that year, and went on to dominate ice dance, winning the next four World Championships as well.{{Snf|Hines|2011|p=102}}{{Snf|Hines|2006|p=174}} British teams won every world ice dance title through 1960.{{Snf|Hines|2011|p=120}} [[Eva Romanova]] and [[Pavel Roman]] of Czechoslovakia were the first non-British ice dancers to win a world title, in 1962.{{Snf|Hines|2011|p=xxxi}}