An artistic program is similar to our Canadian interpretive program, in where you skate to the melody notes, under melodies trying to convey the program's meaning through steps, turns and body movements using the entire body low to the ice, normal stance and in the air without doing more than a half rotation in the air on jumps. It's to skate as close as possible to each nuance of the music with the skating skills you possess. Unlike US and maybe ISU style interpretive programs, it is frowned upon to do more than half rotation non-listed jumps in your interpretive program and can possibly make the judges think that you are skating a free skate program instead and result in very low interpretive marks. In Canada our interpretive programs are marked using the CPC's PCS marks.