You cannot imagine how revolutionary this was after all the tired little programmes with three or four different pieces of music cobbled together with sedate little routines. I still love them. They have never been bettered.
Agreed. Watching this again after 38 years I see that, unlike Barnum & Bolero, they changed almost nothing from the initial performance. It really couldn't be bettered.
It's amazing they didn't change one bit from this first performance to their last. Perfection! No need to change perfection! My favorite skating couple!
The best...EVER! I watch them over and over day after day and never tire of them, infact they get me feeling happy and alive. I love these two...such talent and they always give 100%. .
Torvill and Dean will never ever be bettered. They took ice dance to new heights which have never been reached by any other skaters. Brilliant, I have been lucky enough to see them twice and both times were magical, especially the Balero. Thank you very much for these video clips.
You just know how good they were by the audience. They affected the audiences more than any ice dancing or single ice dancer I have ever seen. The crowds clap along in time to the music, applaud before the end and stand and cheer for ages after they have left the ice. That really does say it all.
I know exactly what you mean, Craig; I was one of the people IN that audience; we had truly never seen anything like that before - one whole coherent piece of music that conveyed character and emotion as well as skill.
I keep coming back to this wonderful clip, as a first outing for a routine, it is perfect in every way and remains so. Also what is incredible is that the Richmond ice rink was such a small rink. For them to fit every move into a much smaller space, is also amazing. Thank you so much for uploading this!
Unreal for a first performance. It never gets old. So perfect. And I didn't realize until this clip how fast Mack and Mabel is. WOW! Show us more old clips like this. I love seeing the first performances and how routines evolved.
This makes me shiver! They come from Nottingham my home city! And I used to talk to Jayne Torvill when she worked at the Norwich Union Office in Nottingham and I was in an Insurance Brokers Office. They are such nice people too! She used to send memos to me about Insurance. This is the best thing I have ever seen English sportspeople do!!!
Как в ленте появились эти видео - непонятно! Но это такое письмо из прошлого, моя юность - эти великие фигуристы. Мы ими восхищались, ждали их выступления по телевизору, мы все в них влюбились с первого проката. Изумительное, блестящее катание, артистизм, всё приводило в восторг. А ещё вдруг вспомнилось, как в Москве их должны были повести в театр, но что-то не получилось и они пошли в цирк. Так после этого они за несколько дней придумали и исполнили показательный номер для советских зрителей, в котором показали и обыграли все увиденные цирковые номера! Талантливые, неповторимые, красивые! Браво!
they always bring a smile to my face! I think they are the BEST! I am just a fan! Chris truly has not changed at all...just a few lines, He is as toned as he was over 20 years ago...Jane looks AWESOME...good for her! stunning!
When I saw T&D's performance at the 1984 Olympics I paid $85.00 for the "ABC Sports presents Best Of the 1984 Olympics" VHS tape" just for T&D and I didn't even own a VCR yet! Christmas 84 my husb gave me a JVC/VCR. It cost him over $500 and it wore out almost 20yrs later! Back to T&D, I taped a show from PBS about them called "Path to Perfection." Their unison is still spot on and they are truly the best that ever was. I am fr Canada glad to see Ice Dance isn't dominated by Russions now.
I think I like this as much as the later version. Also, it's filmed from the opposite side of the rink, giving a different perspective. Thank you, quillerpen.
totally amazing - something to look up to, ice dance is truly harder than people think! everything has to be perfect! coming from a beginner doing compulsory pre-primary, i hope that oe day i can move up to somwhere like that!
I like this one better than Bolero because they are so young and fresh and their faces are lovely! It is exciting, fast moving and very entertaining! Love it so much! xx
Really great! That's one overture that really works for an ice dancing routine. (How I wish the show and the book of MACK & MABEL could work well, up to the level of the score, which is wonderful!)
Not quite sure what you mean here. T&D used a bowler in one of their show routines, but that was after they turned professional, not Mack & Mabel. Karen Barber & Nicky Slater did a Chaplin routine the same year T&D did Bolero and they used a bowler in the exhibition version of that programme that they did for galas, but I never saw T&D use one in their amateur days.
The only thing that betters this (possibly) is the exhibition dance that they did to "I won't send roses" (the song from Mack and Mabel whose music forms the third section of this freedance.) They incorporated a lot of the moves from the freedance in to that exhibition routine, which they skated at the galas in Sarajevo and Ottawa in 1984 after winning gold in the Olympics and their final World Championship, and then at a couple of galas on their triumphant return home . I shall never forget seeing it for the first time, on TV at the Sarajevo Olympics Gala, it's an incredibly emotional watch. I remember their coach, Betty Calloway, saying that it was her favourite routine of theirs, she loved it even more that any of their wonderful freedances and Original Set Pattern (short programme) dances.
actually i have a random fact for you chris's thighs are actually 5 inches bigger than the verage male,lol. I heard it on dancing on ice defrosted,lol. But yes he does look fit.
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Absolutely beautiful ❤❤❤❤d
You cannot imagine how revolutionary this was after all the tired little programmes with three or four different pieces of music cobbled together with sedate little routines. I still love them. They have never been bettered.
Agreed. Watching this again after 38 years I see that, unlike Barnum & Bolero, they changed almost nothing from the initial performance. It really couldn't be bettered.
It's now 2022 and loving this so much.
It's amazing they didn't change one bit from this first performance to their last. Perfection! No need to change perfection! My favorite skating couple!
The best...EVER! I watch them over and over day after day and never tire of them, infact they get me feeling happy and alive. I love these two...such talent and they always give 100%. .
It's now 2020 and I've watched this several times. Just fabulous.
Torvill and Dean will never ever be bettered. They took ice dance to new heights which have never been reached by any other skaters. Brilliant, I have been lucky enough to see them twice and both times were magical, especially the Balero. Thank you very much for these video clips.
You just know how good they were by the audience. They affected the audiences more than any ice dancing or single ice dancer I have ever seen. The crowds clap along in time to the music, applaud before the end and stand and cheer for ages after they have left the ice. That really does say it all.
I know exactly what you mean, Craig; I was one of the people IN that audience; we had truly never seen anything like that before - one whole coherent piece of music that conveyed character and emotion as well as skill.
When we Brits do well, we exceed every expectation! Jayne and Chris, superstars in every sense of that word. Thank you for posting.
Damn, they were good! 😮💜
I keep coming back to this wonderful clip, as a first outing for a routine, it is perfect in every way and remains so. Also what is incredible is that the Richmond ice rink was such a small rink. For them to fit every move into a much smaller space, is also amazing. Thank you so much for uploading this!
Never fails to make me shiver! Brilliant! Perfection. Great Talent
I still get chills when they do those train slides....
I agree. Such an iconic part of their ice skating dances.
They were in a class of their own, untouchable! Makes you proud to be British!! ❤ 🇬🇧
Unreal for a first performance. It never gets old. So perfect. And I didn't realize until this clip how fast Mack and Mabel is. WOW! Show us more old clips like this. I love seeing the first performances and how routines evolved.
Beautiful performance, anybody still watching this in 2019
ME ME ME :)
watching in 2020...
Still watching in 2020. Will probably still be going back to it in 2021 too
2022. My moms favourite dancing couple ever 🇨🇦
Still watching in 2023. Love them so much!
This makes me shiver! They come from Nottingham my home city! And I used to talk to Jayne Torvill when she worked at the Norwich Union Office in Nottingham and I was in an Insurance Brokers Office. They are such nice people too! She used to send memos to me about Insurance. This is the best thing I have ever seen English sportspeople do!!!
I saw in a documentary that her coworkers knew she skated, a bit.
Как в ленте появились эти видео - непонятно! Но это такое письмо из прошлого, моя юность - эти великие фигуристы. Мы ими восхищались, ждали их выступления по телевизору, мы все в них влюбились с первого проката. Изумительное, блестящее катание, артистизм, всё приводило в восторг. А ещё вдруг вспомнилось, как в Москве их должны были повести в театр, но что-то не получилось и они пошли в цирк. Так после этого они за несколько дней придумали и исполнили показательный номер для советских зрителей, в котором показали и обыграли все увиденные цирковые номера! Талантливые, неповторимые, красивые! Браво!
Jayne is such a marvelous skater in her own right!!! They are paired so well.
Perfection on ice.
they always bring a smile to my face! I think they are the BEST! I am just a fan! Chris truly has not changed at all...just a few lines, He is as toned as he was over 20 years ago...Jane looks AWESOME...good for her! stunning!
That was fantastic.
Beautiful performance
Прекрасно!!! Такое лёгкое скольжение, такие оригинальные поддержки.
When I saw T&D's performance at the 1984 Olympics I paid $85.00 for the "ABC Sports presents Best Of the 1984 Olympics" VHS tape" just for T&D and I didn't even own a VCR yet! Christmas 84 my husb gave me a JVC/VCR. It cost him over $500 and it wore out almost 20yrs later! Back to T&D, I taped a show from PBS about them called "Path to Perfection." Their unison is still spot on and they are truly the best that ever was. I am fr Canada glad to see Ice Dance isn't dominated by Russions now.
I enjoyed your story! Torvil and Dean are my favorite skating couple. Pure perfection!
I think I like this as much as the later version. Also, it's filmed from the opposite side of the rink, giving a different perspective.
Thank you, quillerpen.
Fabulous choreography! Thank you. G Ire
Love seeing Jean and Chris on ice they r amazing so love the gold.
Alan Weeks was the voice of Skating on the BBC. Thanks for posting this,
Absolutely beauiful
totally amazing - something to look up to, ice dance is truly harder than people think! everything has to be perfect! coming from a beginner doing compulsory pre-primary, i hope that oe day i can move up to somwhere like that!
Thank you. 🙏🏽
Inspired, artistic - superb skills. They had it all, plus a huge dose of magic. I never tire of watching them.
Absolutely wonderful and as an added bonus, Richmond Ice Rink! Many thanks
Still watching it now in 2021
I love this Music from Mack and Mable baci x
Watched this many times in 2020
fab fab fab Quillerpen, thanks for posting
I like this one better than Bolero because they are so young and fresh and their faces are lovely! It is exciting, fast moving and very entertaining! Love it so much! xx
The best they did for me.
Really great! That's one overture that really works for an ice dancing routine. (How I wish the show and the book of MACK & MABEL could work well, up to the level of the score, which is wonderful!)
Perfection a joy to watch
They do look like brother and sister back when Jayne had that cute blond hair cut they looked almost identical ahah so sweet
So once again...who it the greatest ice dance team to ever skate???
wow
Watching in 2024
Yep, you're right! Good catch. i've amended my notes.
Not quite sure what you mean here. T&D used a bowler in one of their show routines, but that was after they turned professional, not Mack & Mabel. Karen Barber & Nicky Slater did a Chaplin routine the same year T&D did Bolero and they used a bowler in the exhibition version of that programme that they did for galas, but I never saw T&D use one in their amateur days.
YAY Alan Weeks and indeed he was!!
The only thing that betters this (possibly) is the exhibition dance that they did to "I won't send roses" (the song from Mack and Mabel whose music forms the third section of this freedance.) They incorporated a lot of the moves from the freedance in to that exhibition routine, which they skated at the galas in Sarajevo and Ottawa in 1984 after winning gold in the Olympics and their final World Championship, and then at a couple of galas on their triumphant return home . I shall never forget seeing it for the first time, on TV at the Sarajevo Olympics Gala, it's an incredibly emotional watch. I remember their coach, Betty Calloway, saying that it was her favourite routine of theirs, she loved it even more that any of their wonderful freedances and Original Set Pattern (short programme) dances.
Yes I love that routine too. i saw it first at an exhibition performance they did at Richmond
actually i have a random fact for you chris's thighs are actually 5 inches bigger than the verage male,lol. I heard it on dancing on ice defrosted,lol.
But yes he does look fit.
esque cest vrais que andree ha laiser carmen pour prendre mirusia sa lair quelle serais en couple avec andreecarmen cest une jolie femme aussi je laime bien sa lui fait combien de femme notre chere andree
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