aaaaahhhhh, torvill and dean

i don't know how it happened. one minute i was working hard, and the next there i was trolling youtube for old clips of rodnina and zaitsev. i had forgotten how big a deal ice skating used to be ... of course in those days it was something that english people did quite well so it was on the television quite a lot.

here is the free dance from 1994, a decade after their great triumphs, in which torvill and dean demonstrated their continued domination of form and content.

ah yes, torvill and dean ...

i don't know if i get nostalgic because it's a way of not dealing with the present, or if i hope that things i enjoy from the past will add energy to my present. probably a bit of both :-)

anyway, via the guardian weekly youtube blog i somehow ended up watching old torvill and dean triumphs. i liked them because they were from england and still amazing. actually i liked them because they were from nottingham (where i spent some years at uni). more than anything i liked them because they were brilliant. they totally changed their sport, from a kind of ballroom dancing on ice, to something that was still dance, but had athleticism and imagination. i was trying to choose between posting their version of bolero, and this particular piece. this piece won because barnum is one of my favourite musicals. oh, and feel free to move on after the scores ... the chat afterwards is a minute of your life you won't get back