Some people can’t understand unless you have had a career in figure skating or ice dancing how ahead of their time Torvill and Dean were and how incredibly difficult this is and to make it look effortless. Simply stunning even after almost 40 years.

@adrianschuurmans

2 жыл бұрын

Still get goosebumps watching them.... An ex ice-dancer

@gabrielaturcu2278

2 жыл бұрын

yes, just now i watched papadakis and cizeron, no effect on me whatsoever, but torvill&dean, omg, still the same effect: goosebumps allover!!! they were indee way ahead of their time!

@candlelight3232

2 жыл бұрын

cfjermedal, I totally agree with you...They were absolutely stunning.....The freestyle was on Valentine's day 1984 and I've watched it every year since then. By the way, I listen the Bolero at least once a week. I have a CD on which the Bolero is played 10 times, ( by various orchestras and solists ).

@LaineyTsang

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

@anna22225

2 жыл бұрын

They were good in the 80’s but already outdated in 90’s compared to other modern dancers.

One of the most iconic and groundbreaking figure skating moments ever. Truly a legend. Watching and loving it in 2024.

For us who saw this on live TV, it was a singular moment that took our breaths away. What was once a technical, athletic sport, had been magically transformed into pure art, pure beauty-before our very eyes! We knew we were in the presence of true greatness.

@michellewhittaker2135

Жыл бұрын

Truly amazing to watch then and now just brilliant

@patigirl2470

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching it!! It was an unforgettable performance.

@toddsubjent7142

Жыл бұрын

Still today 2023 they created a timeless brilliant accomplishment, a transforming performance wonder!!! I got to watch back then & this remains a momentous event from 1984 Olympic skating with all those 6.0s rightfully earned & graciously accepted as deserved!

@laurawright7477

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching it live with about 30 others..no one spoke a word till it was over and we all cheered so loud! What a beautiful moment in our history!

@jeannineknotts-brown3042

Жыл бұрын

It brought tears to my eyes way back then. What perfection!!!

40 Years later, this performance still ranks as my very favorite ice dancing program ever.

2022 and this routine is as breathtaking now as it was then. It’s pure magic.

@maryleone2023

2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right. T&D's Bolero is timeless and spellbinding. I saw it live on 2/14/84 and have never forgotten it.

@angelabakonyi6318

2 жыл бұрын

Perfection in syn

@dmitrymossienko3100

2 жыл бұрын

Unforgettable and delightful, after all atrocities of the Balkan war, even more the symbol of love and humanity!! Watched it live then, still enjoy it every time!

@peggygilmour8905

Жыл бұрын

I saw it live as well. They received so much criticism from the announcers commenting all through the performance that the channel had to rerun it without any talking. Great ice dancing in case anyone is in doubt.

@valmacclinchy

Жыл бұрын

@@maryleone2023 I remember I watched with my parents..wonderful memories!

This is one of the most significant and revolutionary moments in figure skating. Torvill and Dean changed the entire nature of the sport of ice dancing. Prior to this, it had been formal ballroom dance transferred to ice; they transformed it into ballet on ice. Beyond beauty and technical merit, this was a total reimagining of ice dancing. Pure genius.

@romankotov9914

Жыл бұрын

This is not true. Ice dancing wasn't formal ballroom stuff many years before them. The true trailblazers were Towler and Ford. They threw the gate wide open for the likes of Pakhomova/Gorshkov and Moiseeva/Minenkov. What T/D did was combining technical perfection with remarkable choreography and dramatism.

@annehemp9754

Жыл бұрын

A lot of congratulations has to go to the coaches and the specialist designing the dance. I've never could ice dance which was sad considering I was a champion junior and Senior ballroom dancing.

@italiantraditionalcatholic2390

Жыл бұрын

Nothing "revolutionary "about this performance

@theresatroiano5372

Жыл бұрын

And this was when ice dancers could not separate from each other on the ice for more than 6 seconds .i could watch this all day. would love to see them recreate it.

@EugeneAlcaide-he2id

Жыл бұрын

Simply breathtaking! I watched this on TV at the time, and the😅 performance left me in tears. There hasn't been another couple who captured or came close to Torville and Dean in almost 29 years. Thanks to cell phones, they performed in 2018. Not bad for "old" people.

It is approaching 40 years now since Torvill and Dean unveiled this extraordinary free dance. It has lost none of its power to amaze and delight in that time. Torvill and Dean were the greatest couple that ice dance has ever seen. They changed their sport and expanded its possibilities

@reddragonready

Жыл бұрын

I am going for Papadakis/Cizeron for that title. Even if I did love Torvill and Dean so much..I stopped watching Ice Dance entirely...until I accidentally hit on a video of Papadakis/Cizeron skating to Find Me.

@markhayward7400

Жыл бұрын

@@reddragonready I won't change my view, but you are quite right to highlight the performance you refer to. I have just watched it, and it is stunning!

@angelacooper2661

11 ай бұрын

39 years ago I was four months' shy of fourteen (this was in February and my birthday is in June) and I remember watching this very well. I turned 53 two weeks ago!

I remember watching this live as a 14 year-old and being really happy they won. However, watching it almost 40 years later, I have a much heightened appreciation of how good they were - The synchronisation, the artistic impression, the drama and all made to look so effortless... Mesmerising!

@angelacooper2661

11 ай бұрын

You are therefore about the same age as me, because I turned 14 just four months later. I am now 53!

@catherineg8668

3 ай бұрын

Me too :) @@angelacooper2661

@Margo-oj5yc

3 ай бұрын

What Gordeeva and Grinkov were to pairs skating, Torvill and Dean were to ice dancing.

@rneedham667

3 ай бұрын

Me Too ❤

Anyone still watching this in awe during Lockdown 2021...xx

@vicvi13

3 жыл бұрын

I’m watching today 🙂 Performance is absolutely amazing! Happy Valentine’s Day 💕

@bethschneider5223

3 жыл бұрын

Yes so glad this is here

@anneburton2722

3 жыл бұрын

this was amazing. there are some thrills in lockdown, I guess

@margaretwickert7725

3 жыл бұрын

YES!

@juneseghni

3 жыл бұрын

haha scrolling the comments I see I also watched this in 2019!

Dean's choreography was genius. He was ahead of his time. T&D's chemistry and synchronization were superb. T&D's artistry was unmatched. Ravel's Bolero, itself, is the most sensual passionate music ever written. The blending of the two art forms made this the greatest Ice Dance routine of all time, perfectly performed by T&D( British Royalty). I was in awe on Feb.14,1984 when I witnessed a spellbinding performance. They came, they danced, they conquered! Beauty in Motion, then, now and forever!

@mhm8922

8 ай бұрын

Well said!!!

@dawnjohnson3263

3 ай бұрын

👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

@MightyMouse350

3 ай бұрын

Did Christopher Dean choreograph the whole thing? That's so impressive. I remember watching it at the time, hadn't really thought about who was behind it. Usually they all used a choreographer don't they? utterly beautiful, technical yet so fluid. flawless

I was 15years old and remember watching it. And I'm here 40 years later and still get goosebumps

@Edwina634

4 ай бұрын

I was five and remember it clearly ❤

@angelacooper2661

3 ай бұрын

I was not yet fourteen and remember it very well, so between you both in age!

@dawnturner5597

Ай бұрын

Goosebumps and tears!

I will never listen to Ravel's Bolero again,without seeing this couple's magic!!❤❤❤🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅

@poppyrowland1385

4 ай бұрын

I will. No offence, but the real full length Bolero is magical, even without the skaters.

There has never been an ice dance before, or after, that equals this spectacular performance! It is sheer brilliance!

@donnaviestenz7773

2 жыл бұрын

Totally!!!

@collettekrause3183

2 жыл бұрын

How about the couple that skated to "the sound of silence"

@randallerickson175

2 жыл бұрын

@@collettekrause3183 They were very good, but consider that Torvel and Dean did this performance 36 years ago and no one had seen these type of modern moves on the ice dancing scene. They revolutionized ice dancing which paved the way for the couple dancing to The Sound Of Silence.

@libertychick3522

2 жыл бұрын

This was back when figure skating, gymnastics and synchronized swimming were beautiful to watch. They’ve become so mechanical and focused on triples, quads, lifting a leg above ones head while spinning - it just isn’t pretty or interesting anymore. I recorded all the synchro I could find this last Olympics and the routines were so mechanical and just plain stupid looking that after watching half I deleted the rest. It’s like everything beautiful is being corrupted. This routine was so beautiful I cried through most of it - for the beauty and morning the loss of a beautiful sport to watch. Not much of the Olympics worth watching anymore - especially with men competing against women.

@donnaviestenz7773

2 жыл бұрын

@@libertychick3522 agree

In Poland we had only two tv channels, so everyone saw this. The day after everybody was talking only about this performance. Still brilliant.

@aynuryilmaz7137

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly right. It was the world's last perfect and happy days. When I watched it on tv channel, I was fourteen.

@grim_56

2 жыл бұрын

@@aynuryilmaz7137 Bruh of course you would say it was the "last happy days" because you were 14.

@rmp7400

Жыл бұрын

🌹

@kola158

4 ай бұрын

No i jest czym sie chwalić oni cuagle mysla ze mamy dwa kanaly a niedźwiedsie po ulicach chodzą

The world was stunned by what they saw. Nothing like it before. Life changing. Pure genius.

This is just as close to perfection as any human activity I've ever seen. The skaters, the ice, and the music all become a single mesmerizing work of art.

@maryleone2023

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I have seen every one of T&D's routines- amateur, competitive and professional. Dean's choreography and his chemistry with Torvill are to Ice Dance what Michelangelo was to sculpture. T&D bring the music to life on the ice. Michelangelo brought a piece of marble to life.

@deborahherrick

Жыл бұрын

Amen!

In my opinion, to this day there has never been another performance that equals this one for sheer grace, elegance, skill and breathtaking artistry. Even after nearly 35 years, it still shines as bright as ever. Extraordinary.

@edithbannerman4

8 ай бұрын

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

@mhm8922

8 ай бұрын

I totally agree. Every time I watch the Winter Olympics I long to see this performance. Nothing comes close for me. This remains perfection.

@irispitman4202

8 ай бұрын

Agreed 100%

I doubt there has ever been a performance more perfect than this. Their technique and choreography was outstanding and still is. Simply one of life's magical moments.

@jaimehamm8999

2 жыл бұрын

Ahemm......Moir & Virtue at 2010 Olympics had the same connection, technique, & artistry.

@jaimehamm8999

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I meant Moie & Virtue's 2008 skate at World's

@maryleone2023

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaimehamm8999 The routine was choreographed by Marina Zueva and Igor S., the same duo for Davis & White. Different rules and requirements for lifts and turns(twizzles). Dean choreographed all of his routines with Torvill. They both went to radio stations to listen to records and borrow them. They selected their own music. Dean made the music come to life. T&D's chemistry and artistry came from deep within themselves. Not so with V&M and D&W.

@poppyonline4034

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaimehamm8999 sorry but if you want to talk about recent ice dancing Davis and White’s Scheherazade was better than M/V

@AnjuliM123

Жыл бұрын

Yuzuru Hanyu

I remember watching this back in '84 and thinking it was the most amazing skating I had ever seen. I still do. NOBODY has approached the quality & ingenuity of this epic performance.

How often in life do we see perfection? This performance will never be forgotten. It stands alongside Olga Korbut's archetypal floor routine.

@edithbannerman4

8 ай бұрын

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

How respectful were the audience? They were absolutely mesmerised.

Anybody else watching this in 2019?

@roseannzinke4759

4 жыл бұрын

I am, Ian. It’s so amazing! I saw it in 1984, and I watched it 5 times tonight. It IS perfect!

@carolgibbs8813

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Ian. We saw this on TV in 1984 and was mesmerized by the beauty and perfection of their performance.. We still feel the same!

@vallee3140

4 жыл бұрын

yes me I gave up on it years ago, these were the best days especially Hilda

@stacymar684

4 жыл бұрын

Yup

@80mphisntfastenuff

4 жыл бұрын

It’s a timeless piece of history. Perfection.

I remembered this as the most stunning and most memorable performance ever. After watching the 22 Olympics, so much has changed since then. It's more acrobatic and advanced. But Torvill and Dean will always be at the top.

@annaboglione3820

2 жыл бұрын

Very true: they are the best, still now !

Just watched it in February 2022. Just mesmermizing. A gorgeous performance. The beauty of it almost brings me to tears.

@jeanbrowes9178

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

I have never seen a dance fit a piece of music so perfectly. Ice dance or no. Torvill and Dean are still untouchable.....

@ZaZa-uf6ze

4 жыл бұрын

Помню это выступление. Эта пара заслужено не дала занять 1 место фигуристами сссср.

@julsbeau

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. This is perfection. Just love, love it!!!!

@rosannehorn2509

4 жыл бұрын

My all time favorite lce time dancers of all time.....

@hartforp

4 жыл бұрын

I work with her at Norwich Union, in my summer holiday,as my dad was here managing as the time. And it was her who show me have to dance like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, were I was as a part with here. She went on to be the most amazing dance with Chris Dean, and Bolero was the shine night on the world stage!

@janumbower6905

3 жыл бұрын

Niven1 u

Well, here we are...almost 30 years later; and I swear that every time I watch this, I still get chills. How fabulous that they were so appreciated for being such a breath of fresh air that they could break the former Soviet lock on ice dancing. They were, and still are, the greatest!

@chubbyflower305

4 жыл бұрын

I agree entirely. Everytime hear the Bolero goosebumps paint me like a wall. What a marvellous, marvellous free dance from Jayne and Chris.

@chubbyflower305

4 жыл бұрын

@Marjo... and had the rules been changed 4 years earlier this would never exist, or come close to existing.

@adrianschuurmans

4 жыл бұрын

Just sent the link to a friend and got goosebumps listening and watching it....35 years later, same response as the first time I saw them

@noranorth7654

4 жыл бұрын

They are not pnly the greatest!! There sre so many others not less greatest. You are English aren't you?

@myragross3723

4 жыл бұрын

@@chubbyflower305 n

Absolutely flawless performance, they perform so well together, it was a totally seamless flow…awesome.

@edithbannerman4

8 ай бұрын

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

Outstanding in perfection and harmony. One of these moments in life you´ll never forget. Thank you Torvill and Dean! from Germany.

@sarahkaye576

3 ай бұрын

Very easy to forget for me! Nothing outstanding at all! But then again, it was 40 years ago. Skaters have improved.

I was 15 year's old when I watched this magnificent, mesmerizing, artistic, beautiful, masterpiece for the first time! Now 36 year's later it is still just as magnificent. They are the reason I adore Ice Dancing and look forward to watching the Olympics but no one has compared to this marvelous and graceful pair in all that time. Timeless ❤

I'm watching in 2020 and reliving that spectacularly exquisite moment in all of Ice Skating history as watched on my telly in 1984.

@lornashipmanwhite5710

4 жыл бұрын

Exquisite perfection. 2020, 36 years later, they continue to be the masters of their art.

@berylward1239

3 жыл бұрын

@@lornashipmanwhite5710 Ppp

@bethbrittenbach3301

3 жыл бұрын

I just wish we could share this art and beauty with the younger folks.

@semabuyukcelebituncer3016

3 жыл бұрын

@@lornashipmanwhite5710 I totally agree with you

@eve_cooper13

3 жыл бұрын

@@lornashipmanwhite5710 I grew up watching this dance weekly and just thinking of how perfect this song and their skating is, there hasn’t been a performance better

Still the best ice dancing routine. After 38 years

This performance changed Ice Dancing forever. So amazing, and timeless. Enjoy it as much in 2022 as I did in 1984.

This was Valentine’s Day 1984 and it felt as if the whole of the UK were watching. I watched with my parents, all of us transfixed and holding our breaths. T & D were stunning and unforgettable.

@dorvilltean3649

4 жыл бұрын

24 million, around half of the population were watching them. And then there were 100 million worldwide!

@sandranorman5469

3 жыл бұрын

Cindy Martha And we Americans were rooting for them also. They are not British-they belong to the world and we are so grateful to have been alive.

@magdahearne497

3 жыл бұрын

It was a magical moment in time wasn't it? I still get chills watching it ☺

@martinwhite9633

3 жыл бұрын

Me too...watching sitting in the floor in front of the tv in my mum’s living room

@normadesmond6017

3 жыл бұрын

I watched this as a teenager in the Netherlands. It was the first time that a couple danced in this form - one song or one piece of music. This was magical. And when those 6.0 came up my mother and i both were screaming. Beautiful memories.

It’s 35 years later, and I still have chills down my spine.

@LynneUK1

5 жыл бұрын

Same, everytime I watch it I get the shivers

@helengardner6310

5 жыл бұрын

psza

@helengardner6310

5 жыл бұрын

figure, skating

@helengardner6310

5 жыл бұрын

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@julienewsome7471

4 жыл бұрын

me too

Watching this just after the 2022 Winter Olympics and this routine is still as amazing as it was when I first saw them all those year's ago...just perfect 💜

@maryleone2023

2 жыл бұрын

You are not alone. I feel the same way and love the lavender heart. I just purchased a gorgeous art print of Bolero by Gordon King from the UK. (ebay). Their costumes were so beautiful and that color was wow!

You can't get better than perfection ...and never get sick of watching this particular routine ..

One of the most beautiful gifts ever given to the World. Stunning, even after all these years.

I'm an American and hands down have always supported these two skaters from Britain. They are so in sync with their grace, elegance, style and humility, watching them is like seeing liquid gold softly flowing over the ice and watching it light up everything it touches. No one can ever touch them EVER. They will always reign as #1 forever.

@cockeyedoptimista

5 жыл бұрын

Aunt Kitty Hashtag I love that description! So poetic and apt: liquid gold flowing, lighting everything: wow, yes!

@cockeyedoptimista

5 жыл бұрын

Ari Soze Good question! But this type of performance is rare; I think people still appreciate such things though.

@benjaminsidneykidd-bentley3966

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@toddsubjent7142

4 жыл бұрын

With you 100% as an American too!! Indeed, watching them in 1984 telecast, now after all these decades hands down, or should I say "blades" down their above all the rest since!! As well as for decades to come in Olympics ice dancing they will remain best !!!

@carolynellis387

3 жыл бұрын

Aunt Kitty thanks I'm a massive fan of them both. They were so elegant on ice

That was insanely good! Perfect marks were absolutely deserved for such an incredible performance.

Watching 2022 Olympics I still have to revisit this as the gold standard of artistic ice dancing. Magnificent in the 80s and nearly 40 yrs later.

I remember watching this as a 14 year old and being in awe! Their routine still brings a tear of joy when I watch it - they moved as one and were so graceful and elegant!

@rachelsirett8809

2 жыл бұрын

I was 12

@karenpoe6345

2 жыл бұрын

I was 16! Still my favorite ⛸️

@mleecthulhu

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

@rachelsirett8809

2 жыл бұрын

@@mleecthulhu I was 12

@neilbowers6956

2 жыл бұрын

I was 11 years old and remember this so well. Can't believe it's almost 40 years ago since this event took place. It was the last time Great Britain won a medal on the ice dancing I think. Which is such a shame all the ice rinks are being closed down and it's not taken seriously enough now.

Watching this again almost 40 years later and have never seen anything better since ❤️

@owenhopkins9192

2 жыл бұрын

tess and scott 2018

@theflaca

2 жыл бұрын

I remember it too as they revealed it to the world that very moment. It was late at night for me. I bothered to stay up late. Yet it was coming to me live. A special rare treat. I was 18. Summer was raging. Signed Melbourne Australia.

@poppyonline4034

2 жыл бұрын

@@owenhopkins9192 No. not close.

Sheer, utter, heart-stopping perfection. It will never be equalled.

I have chills, and tears in my eyes. I'm so glad this was filmed. It's timeless.

I'm here because of James Acaster's bit about how they exploited a loopole where the 4 minute timer starts when their skates touch the ice by doing the first 20 seconds on their knees 😂

@muzzaball

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if they had of been skating for the extra 20 secs, some of those 5.9's may have become 6.0's!

@cerissa3489

2 жыл бұрын

I’m here from that bit too 😂

@jennifermoosa9128

2 жыл бұрын

Me too haha!!! Just watching James Acaster Repertoire!

@KILLER07531

2 жыл бұрын

Dweeby little squares... jk 😂

I saw it as it happened on tv all those years ago, and am still paralyzed by the art of it. They skated for the UK, but they transcended nationality or competition. They were -- are -- a gift for for the ages. We are all better for this masterpiece of ineffable beauty.

@Carrival

5 жыл бұрын

How beautifully written and so true!!

@janeforst8464

5 жыл бұрын

You are so completely right. Your comments truly define what Torvil and Dean captured on ice with shear movement to one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of classical music. Almost 35 years later and this exquisite ice dance, still gives me the same effect from when I first saw this gorgeous perfection of movement and interpretation .

@anonymouspeacefulperson6199

5 жыл бұрын

Leslie jones sorry you were paralysed Leslie Jason. There have been lots of injuries on the ice! Its been heatbreaking! I still get pains from my injuries myself! Take care xx

@elainelawson1221

5 жыл бұрын

Leslie jones b

@anonymouspeacefulperson6199

5 жыл бұрын

Catherine - have you been on the tixilyx again? Lol 😂 thanks for accompanying me to Barbara’s course. Xx all the best wishes for Christmas xx 😚

This performance never gets old.

Лучшего воплощения Болеро в исполнении вел.иких танцоров на льду Д Торвилл и Кр. Дин быть не может!!!!Завораживает!Это магия!!Это волшебство!!!

I still get chills when I see this footage. This is the most amazing routine realized with utter perfection. To this day, I can't hear Bolero without being transported back to this performance.

@lucillemarano7535

Жыл бұрын

Every time I hear Bolero it reminds me of Torvell and Dean superb in 1984 and still suberb.

The greatest there has ever been. The greatest there will ever be. And our generation was so lucky to see them at work.

@carolewilson1803

3 жыл бұрын

Fabio you know all about skating; dont we>

@sunnyshores7520

3 жыл бұрын

Feabio, you know skating and being in love. You have found that Many Splendored Thing. You are fortunate.

Anyone watching this in 2022.? Still gives me some fabulous memories of the day! Very proud of their performance….a huge uplift for us British folks! No one since has even got to their level of excellence!

@rmp7400

Жыл бұрын

🎆👍🌹

@carolrichards6452

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree. Todays skaters dont have that level of elegance and perfection that T and D had.

@ivanjackson7924

3 ай бұрын

Absolute brilliance on ice, still relevant today 40 years later!! Iconic legends from my Home town.Reign supreme ✨️

This still gives me Goosebumps today, beautiful performance.

This is art in motion. Every move was like a brush stroke in the painting of a masterpiece.

@annishilcock4587

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said.

Этот констебль скользит на коньках по льду так, будто он родился уже в этих коньках. У Кристофера непревзойдённое скольжение, в этом фишка успеха этой пары. Люблю их за это, лучшие! "Балеро" замечательная программа, можно пересматривать вечно. Спасибо её создателям и исполнителям!

I was entranced by this at the time and that feeling has remained. IMO, this is the best ever, not just because of their incredible skill but also the beautiful energy that is transmitted during the performance. It moves me to tears every time I watch it.

Rarely, very rarely, do we see the combination of physical excellence, artistic creation and the culmination of years of training in a discipline reach such heights. This performance by two athletes working together as an me, still sends chills up my spine as Jayne and Chris tell a spellbinding story, not merely stringing together a sequence of moves. ❤️

Best routine ever! They skated as one, totally fluid pair. I get carried away with them in the music. Routine fit the music perfectly! I got chills when I saw this way back when and I still do.

@dd-kapibara1070

Жыл бұрын

Feels like a human equivalent of a complex bird mating dance, like the grebes. So satisfying to watch!

@rmp7400

Жыл бұрын

​@DD-Kapibara It could be... except that they are not a couple, and I do very much doubt that both individuals are as content with the hands they were dealt...

@dd-kapibara1070

Жыл бұрын

@@rmp7400 sorry, I was a little obtuse as to the other interpretation. I was just expressing my appreciation for their performance as an art. Nothing necessarily about them personally. Like watching an amazing acting or ballet performance? People aren't necessarily what they are trying to portray, they are trying to convey whatever it is they want to the audience, and seeing a performance where someone perfectly illicits a specific emotion or memory is satisfying. Watching them gives a calm steady feeling, since the weight of the movements match the music, but the moves are still smooth and perfectly coordinated and give the impression they are as easy as pie. If you search up the grebes and watch the video with Attenborough narrating it might be easier to understand what I mean since I also struggle to explain this without likening it to something else that I can maybe imagine others might be able to relate to better. I wouldn't speak of them as people, I understand that anyone that is able to attain this level in their craft have most likely needed to work to the extreme at the cost of other aspects of life for moments like this where the effort gets to be displayed and appreciated. There are some dances where the movements are supposed to portray a type of animal or tell a story, in swan lake there are a lot of movements made to mimic flapping wings, moving gracefully, to show that you are one of the swans, so for me this would be waltz of the grebes or bolero of the grebes.

After all these years,this is the most memorable skate I have ever seen in 70 years.......

@mattcornes51

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Bonnie, How are you doing?

I remember this, it was so beautiful. So lovely to watch it again. They were the perfect partners, there will never be another couple with so much talent and grace. A truly breath taking performance.

Thirty nine years later it still is awesome to watch them in an exquisite performance.

@Vienna81

Жыл бұрын

I don't think that it will ever change. It's so unique and beautiful. Other great skaters have come and gone but not left such an impact as Torvill and Dean.

Still, this many years later, the most beautiful Olympic Ice Skating performance ever. Just aboslutely perfect.

I saw this as a kid because I had a broken leg and couldnt play outside, so watched all of the Olympics that year. To this day, it is such a vivid memory of fluid beautiful movement to music that's of a soothing haunting nature. It was also my first exposure of hearing Ravel's Bolero.

Одно из лучших выступлений . Просто супер. 38 лет прошло,как вчера.

@TheSERENITYDREAM

Жыл бұрын

случайно наткнулась на видео и была потрясена (конечно прекрасно помню эту пару ) ведь почти 40 лет !!!!

2023: This pair of skaters performed with such electric elegance and magic. They effortlessly glided across the ice without missing a beat, fully in sync with each others energy... I remember seeing this long ago but watching it again it is as if I'm back in time focusing on them perform for the world! 👋👋👋👋👋Bravo!

It’s as breathtaking today as it was when they performed it in 1984 in Sarajevo!

There have been some amazing dance couples over time. Then there was Torvill and Dean.

@ericmoore1173

3 жыл бұрын

How are you doing today my name is Eric

@grim_56

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericmoore1173 Eric you simp

Remember it clearly,still brings me to tears.Absolute masters at their sport.They just flowed seamlessly together.There's never been anyone quite like them

Tuesday 14th Feb 1984. I watched this as a 21 year old with my family. My Dad and I even delayed going to the pub for our usually Tuesday night drinks with his friends and their sons. We got to the pub about 9.30-10.0, with the landlord grumbling about the pub being empty until "that bloody ice skating" had finished. I imagine it's hard to understand today, how this 4 minutes of sporting beauty stopped a whole nation. They were light years ahead of everyone then and everyone since.

@MsSwap2009

3 ай бұрын

Great story, thank you! At the end you should noticed Princess Ann in the audience.

I watched that live. It was breathtakingly beautiful. Perfection, the likes of which will never be seen again. I still get goosebumps watching them.

There has never been anyone better! The complete perfect performance with absolute synchrony never before and never after.

So moving, just beautiful. .

Absolutely stunned watching it back in 1984 and even more so now. ❤❤

never bettered, never repeated, no other compares to this....... Jayne and Chris are true legends

I love it how the commentators kept their GD mouthsSHUT, without technical critique, etc....this was a flawless performance..even on the best performances today, we have commentators putting their 2 cent's in....they need to shut the hell up. LOVE this performance.

@louisecarpenter1741

6 жыл бұрын

wdharvey1 I remember my mum watching it with me when I was ten. She let me stay up to watch it or get up early. I don’t remember that bit but I remember holding my breath as I did tonight watching it and my now late mum said that even the commentator was holding his breath. You could hear a pin drop in that room. I think the world wanted them to win as much as us in the UK.

@sandranorman5469

5 жыл бұрын

They were not ABC (USA) commentators. Have a copy of the American comments while the Bolero.was on. Believe me you don’t know-Peggy Fleming and Dick Button were stunned. Peggy said that they should have changed tempo and Button said he preferred “Barnum”. Glad I don’t have to listen to them when I watch this.

@gorgeous6737

4 жыл бұрын

Amen

@dorvilltean3649

4 жыл бұрын

@@sandranorman5469 Yes, out of the MANY countries (most of Europe and North America) who were broadcasting the event, the only commentators to speak during the performance were the Americans. They were also the ones to act 'less shocked', so to speak, when the perfect scores came up.

I still get chill's every time I hear this music, Torvill and Dean were well ahead of their time. I doubt anyone will ever be as good x

I'm 54 years of age and remember watching it live and I still get a tear in my eyes watching it. Just brilliant

One of the best Olympic performances ever!

To this day, the most beautiful piece I've ever seen. Completely fluid; two bodies as one. This is the standard that's yet to be beat. Bravo

@mmjhcb

6 жыл бұрын

Jackie Santangelo It never will be beaten.

@Smithjones12

6 жыл бұрын

They didn't need quad jumps and dangerous lifts They had class and passion

@OFWarhhbTN

5 жыл бұрын

I agree this is both gorgeous and within just one performance of unique; the other one is their Song of India, just after they turned professional the same year. I can’t say I like one better than the other - equally gorgeous, equally unlike anything else (except the other), creative and beautiful. Words fail!

@jacquelinerussell8530

5 жыл бұрын

Jackie Santangelo Yes one of the best ice dancing routines I saw it live slso

@MrDaiseymay

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacquelinerussell8530 name a better one

This is the first time I've seen this since the 80s. It's still a beautiful performance. It's such an iconic Winter Olympic moment.

Still the greatest performance on ice I've seen in my 70 years. My heart races, and all my muscles feel the couple's every move.

I have watched many Olympic Ice Dancing Routines in my Lifetime and absolutely Nothing comes close to the Perfection as this. Some 34 years later my opinion hasn't changed. This is the routine that i always measure others by and they always leave me disappointed because how can one improve on perfection. Never Equalled or duplicated.

@OFWarhhbTN

6 жыл бұрын

perpetual61 Must confess their professional Song of India routine (same year, 1984) seems just as good to me; not better, but just as good.

@ingriddubbel8468

5 жыл бұрын

That is because it is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

@thomasnarsete7233

5 жыл бұрын

well said

@niklel4036

5 жыл бұрын

My sentiments exactly,dear lady.

@paprika1951

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed, I remember wondering as I watched for the first time, “Why isn’t the ice melting?” Everything that came before turned tepid and bland.

This pair set the bar so high, few have come close to reaching this level of sophistication and difficulty. They truly made one on ice, technically and mentally. And they were humble too.

Coming from Nottingham, it was impossible to miss T&D fever because the local paper was full of them! An old school friend worked with Jayne Torvill and I remember seeing her face in among of her work colleagues setting out to Sarajevo to watch this incredible moment in history

Thank goodness this was filmed. Watching today, four decades later, still.perfection, still hasn't been equalled.

I am watching this on Nov. 2, 2019, and am as mesmerized now as when I watched the 1984 competition. They gave a flawless performance;; their costumes were attractive; their moves excellent. It was a pleasure to watch them again.

@frannynobrain

4 жыл бұрын

5 November today.. And I'm in bits (again). I watched it live with my parents, and I don't think anyone breathed for the length of time they danced. So beautiful, and I'm Nottingham proud!

@anitam7547

4 жыл бұрын

Helen Carmody: I watched them perform Bolero, etc. live in Manchester. I only went because I took my mum as a special treat. I didn't expect it to be so intense, brilliant, and scary. I ached physically afterwards. To have seen it live, rather than through a moving camera, was incredible. I didn't relax for a second - it wasn't possible. What a memory!

I remember watching this performance as a little girl with my mom in the Soviet Union time. We both were glued to the TV :) It was an incredible performance, and probably the highest marks I have ever seen :)

@ericmoore7863

3 жыл бұрын

How are you doing today my name is Eric Moore

I remember seeing it live and how amazing it was. That music is amazing but their artistry is beyond the pale.

Here I am in 19 actually in 2023 and still, I hold my breath as I watch them they were revolutionary they were pure art

In 1990, met Chris Dean at his country house to install a computer system and keyboard. He was arranging music sets for the ice shows on computer. Great guy. True professional. Thanked him for making our country proud. He told me he recently spent a year living in hotels around world on tour with Jane but glad to be home in U.K. Exhausting ! His wife’s American.

remember this live on TV in `84 .....was brilliant and very emotional then and is still absolutely the best performance ever...

@jesse-hs4xh

3 жыл бұрын

its my mum!! shes the most perfect person to exist

This had everything. Beautiful costumes, wonderful music. Effortless routine that built up to a crescendo like the music. Never will see this again. Just breathtaking.❤

Stunning choreography, perfect symmetry and balance and excellent trusting teamwork. An outstanding couple at the top of their class 🎊

@GeorgeMorgan6600

2 ай бұрын

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?

@lucyseidler1905

2 ай бұрын

@@GeorgeMorgan6600 good thanks. Always #blessed !

@GeorgeMorgan6600

2 ай бұрын

@@lucyseidler1905 Good to hear that, how’s your day going and what’re you up to?

@GeorgeMorgan6600

2 ай бұрын

@@lucyseidler1905 Yes just wondering too, do you suggest any platform we can stay in touch on

I watched this with my mum and dad I was only 5 years old. Happy 40th birthday to this masterpiece

I remember watching it live in 1984 and it was truly astounding then. It is still extremely beautiful now almost 30 years later wow

They truly do move as if they both shared one mind. Absolutely breathtaking 💜

38年前まだ若かった私は、彼らのアイスダンスに衝撃を受けました。ビデオに録画して何度も見てはあまりの美しさ、芸術性に彼らのアイスダンスの虜に…あれ以来、彼らを超えるダンスを未だ見たことはありません。アップして下さった方に感謝

This was by far the best display of talent and grace ever in an Ice Dancing routine Bolero was superb music and Torvill and Dean were magnificent....NEVER EVER FORGET IT....

@Calliope0954

5 жыл бұрын

I, for one, will NEVER forget that routine - perfectly in sync, sensual & romantic with such a dramatic ending!! I wonder if the little girls collecting the bouquets went for the dream of professional ice skating? If anyone knows, let us know!!

@torilllundborn7899

5 жыл бұрын

Just Georgeous.. ..

I was 4 years old when I watched this. And I still remember it. Beautiful ice dancing. A faultless routine.

Absolutely mesmerizing. Still as much so as it was when I watched it live on tv all those years ago. It was one of those moments that become etched in your brain forever.

Perfection, there are no other words, just Perfection. I was 22yrs old when I saw this. My mother was an artist of paint, she said it, that was perfection Torvill & Dean.