Making the Torville and Dean's List
The other day, I wrote about and also posted a video here of the famous, ethereally remarkable Gold Medal-winning performance by Jayne Torville and Christopher Dean at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, when they skated to “Bolero” getting near-perfect marks.
It turns out that they recreated this 30 years later in 2014 for a British TV competition series, Skating on Ice. They weren’t competing themselves, but it appears to have been a special performance within the show. They don’t appear initially, but the opening “costume ball” choreography does a very good job hiding their arrival and then revealing them to audience. At first, the studio audience doesn’t seem aware who is there on the ice, but once the “Bolero” music begins to play and the skater stand, you can hear people start to catch on.
Both skaters are in the mid-50s at the time. And they impressively remain impeccable. I’m pretty sure that this was a slightly-trimmed version from the original, about a minute shorter than the initial 4-1/2 minutes.
Comments