Torvill & Dean - 1984 Olympics - Bolero - HQ
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- The quintessential ice dance, the only one to score 6.0 from all judges, the legendary Torvill & Dean. Bolero from 1984 Olympics where they won gold.
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One of the best things about this performance is that the commentators were silent the entire time, letting us just enjoy the skaters. Today they feel the need to babble the whole time someone is on the ice.
What the hell are you even talking about?? :S
Hahaha! Get help, seriously.
Still weep when I see such perfection....
Not difficult the commentator said
Let's see him do it !
What is easy to say is: this is a beautiful performance. Never get tired of viewing it.
I'm an American who is convinced there will never be another pair like T&D. They were as nearly as perfect as people can be. I miss them and they set a standard that today's skaters can only envy. Thak you Jane and Christopher for the legacy.
I saw this live on 2/14/1984. I remember it now, 38 years later, as if it were yesterday. I was in awe, completely mesmerized by the spellbinding artistry. Dean's choreography was superb. The couple"s synchronization was outstanding. This was Beauty In Motion. The footwork was difficult, there were seven lifts and they glided across Olympic Ice at high speed but made it look slow and easy. Dean's billowing shirt gives an indication of how fast they were moving.
While watching this performance at the time it happened, I recall thinking that the end of each move was also the beginning of the next move. Absolutely brilliant choreography and execution!
The world may never again see another such performance. Truly, this was one for the ages.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you mentioned!
perfect , just perfect and NEVER again , toomuch too beautifull too....
The most beautiful thing that happened on ice EVER. So sensual, flawless, effortless, emotional and original. Bravo! I thank them for honoring soil of my country with their presence and the best performance in ice skating history...
Two years ago I wrote this:
Everynow and then I check this youtube video to see if anyone is still watching Bolero 29 years after it was first performed. And people still are. Today. The number of views is:
2,180,758.
Well, on August 24, 2015 the number is 3,075,037 - nearly an additional 1.0m viewers. Not bad for a routine which is now more than 31 years old. Torvill and Dean's Bolero hasn't aged because something about it continues to resonate emotionally for it's viewers.
+lam dao Still watching and being moved to tears each time. This is not ice-skating - it is great art. One of those moments in time, which can never die.
I think it's that they truly interpreted the music to ice dancing. 3,350k views. Maybe more than watched the original routine.
I only watched it because I was told to.
love;;;
I just watched it in 2018, I saw the original on tv when I was 12 still cannot be beaten,perfect just perfect
I count myself blessed to have watched that as it happened. My wife and I were mesmerized. Still am.
Me too. So beautiful. What was that French couple competing with them? A totally different approach
+Morgan Spector The whole world was mesmerized....
Morgan Spector So did I!! I was stunned then and is still amazed by their artistry!!
It is the only performance of any sport in any Olympics that I remember!
I watched it live as well - it was mesmerising then and it's just as much so now.
To this day this remains the most perfect ice dance in the history of the sport. Nobody else has come close to matching it.
They worked so hard for this with full time jobs the fact people say it wasn’t hard need a slap this will always go down in Olympic history
They choreographed this routine themselves? Years later I watch this and give praise for the fluidity that doesn't break, and I still marvel at the sheer beauty of the routine.
My God ! They 're so perfect, it brings tears to your eyes ! Hats off to Torvill & Dean !!!
30 years later this is the performance of which I measure all Ice Dancing routines. Still Breathtaking, Beautiful and Special. So deserving of the Perfect scores that they received.
I've been watching the winter olympics this week and no one will ever match just the pure accuracy these two have! their timing is just ridiculously perfect! Legends in my eyes, just beautiful to watch :)
I didn't realise I was holding my breathe untill the end of the video. There is something so mesmerising about this performance
Sure, kiddo.
For five minutes and thirty one seconds?
Lizzie Loo Same as me, wow !!!!!!!
I tear up each and every time I watch this. Such grace snd beauty.....Torvill and Dean. The best.
The world was in awe after seeing this. I remember it like it was yesterday. Brilliant then and still is. Seamless. The Figure Skating union changed the rules after this---too many trying to "copy" their style and doing such outlandish things. None could compare to Bolero, however.
+aaronrevealed And now it's been changed so much that ice dancing doesn't really have much "dancing" in it - you rarely see couples in hold. I remember that back then they would be penalized if they were off the ground TOO long.
Absolutely smooth as silk and in perfect harmony with each other. They look as if they're flying.
Don't understand how anybody can click on 'dislike' on this! Their musicality, symmetry, artistry and the romance of the whole thing are unsurpassed!
You will never see this magnificence again.
today came pretty close...savchenko & Massot were ingenius!
Jo Hannes . Agreed. Incredible synchronisity. He was throwing, balancing and twirling her around like a baton. Never seen anything quite like that performance.
And who did Aliona and Bruno go to for help in putting together their wonderful programme? Christopher Dean of course!
Today would have been my mother's 90th birthday, however she passed away shortly after this performance. Although she never skated herself, she was an avid fan and watched it every chance she got. I'm so glad she lived long enough to have seen this most epic of all performances! I could watch it a hundred times and never tire of it. Amazing talent that will never be surpassed. Happy Birthday Mom. You are missed!
Would it have been your mum's 90th birthday? Ok. When did your mum die and how old was she when she died?
2024 here… 40 years later and it still doesn’t get any better than this!
Absolutely spectacular 👌 never been beaten in my view.
Finest ice performance ever, as well as, an artistic masterpiece.
What I remember about their performance was how closely they were skating together, compared to others of the day. Most people won't remember that, but to our experience then, it was like they were glued together and I was amazed that their skates didn't get tangled up with each other. All other skaters were at about two arms length apart, but these two rewrote the book. How close they were to each other, their grace and the beauty of the music was mesmerizing. I'll never forget it. Thank you for uploading this.
Thanks for adding that little tidbit!
I'm 70 years old and had the honour of watching this live, in my opinion the perfect sporting event that I have had the privilege to watch.
Thirty years later and they remain the best ever
forty
Beautiful. And performed on Valentines Day too.
The entrance to the new ice stadium in Nottingham is called BOLERO SQUARE.
The interpretation of the music in itself was pure perfection let alone the skating .wow wow wow nobody will ever come close in all history to these great UK skaters.sheer perfect!!!!
Still gives me goose bumps to this day. legendary!
One of the greatest moments in sport history, perhaps in human arts.
This is so great. It is better than the music alone, better than the dance alone.
We will never see something like that again.
nobody but nobody will ever be as good as these two
A proud to be British moment.
Trevor King - A "proud to be human moment" for the rest of us who cheer on those who are deserving of such support and happiness at their success. In childhood one sees that tigers and egrets are ever so much more beautiful than are humans. And then one is fortunate enough to behold Torvill & Dean's poetry in motion and find hope that some visual grace and beauty may be found in the rest of us. I doubt their artistry will ever be surpassed, so go on being proud.
A proud to be from Nottingham moment 😂
I suspect that that day, we were ALL British. Remember that they were the first non-Soviet couple to win the Olympic gold medal in Ice Dance. That was HUGE, especially since the Cold War was still going on at the time!
36 years to the day and people STILL watch this perfect performance!
This will never be matched. Not in my lifetime at least. It's timeless. It's been 30 years and I'm as mesmerized by it now as I was back then.
I watched this when they performed it live and knew I was watching history in the making. I still get chills when I see it...so wonderful!
IN ONE WORD I DESRIBE IT AS PERFECTION
This is by far the best of all time in my opinion!
It is hard to think it was 31years ago, it is timeless , still love it then , and still love it today.
There are perhaps 100 plus perfectly choreographed, perfectly timed and perfecty executed movements in this performance (it is impossible to call it a routine), against music whose tempo increases hypnotically and relentlessly throughout every moment, and would punish any small correction, or readjustment . Simply perfect.
"PERHAPS NOT DIFFICULT..." is the commentator out of his gourd??? As a former competitive ice dance I can reassure you that this is the most intricate and difficult-to-do ever and will remain so till forever.
Dick Button said this years later... By researching the music, the skating rules, and the choreographic background, I understood why British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were so wildly successful when they competed in and won the ice dance competition at the 1984 Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo. Their memorable performance to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero received worldwide attention, was one of the most iconic ice dance programs ever, and changed the face of ice dancing.
But if Torvill and Dean had skated exactly the same program four years later at the 1988 Games, they would not have lasted five seconds-so changed, so controlling, so constipated had the rules become. In place of the freedom to create the choreographic concept called for by the music, heavy restrictions were quickly imposed: there was to be no kneeling on ice; no lying on the ice; official timing began when movement started, even if the skater had not moved a skate; and the music needed to have a clearer melody.
Hello??
My mom was suppose to go to the 1944 Olympics as a figure skater, but war and she mentioned the same thing. It doesn't appear to amateurs to be difficult but it was and executed perfectly, one minor slip and all would be a mess! Every move was connected to the next seamlessly and gracefully entwined with the music
This was Dick Button, singles Olympic champion from years ago. I found his skating commentary over the years both interesting and annoying.
@@peteowen3539 "The music needed to have a clearer melody?" What the actual . . . ? It's Ravel's 'Bolero,' one of the most famous orchestral compositions in history. I just . . . I can't even . . .
@@peteowen3539 That's a very interesting quote. I can't help thinking that had T&D been competing in 1988, they would simply have come up with a routine that corresponded to the restrictions that had just been introduced. Ironically, it seems that where they came unstuck in 1994 on their return to the Olympics was by taking too literally the instructions to introduce more pure dance to their routine. Even then, it has to be remembered that they won the Original Dance in Lillehammer with a sublime rhumba and still manged to get on the podium.
Wonderful performance of Torvill & Dean , congretulation for Sarajevo as a organiser of Winter Olympics Games in 1984 :-)
Greetings to the people of Bosnia and Herzegonina , and Sarajevo 4 ~ ever , in my heart :-)
~ Lara ~
For anyone who's said, or is about to say "There's never been anyone like Torvill & Dean" - well, there's a reason for that.
The Olympics committee changed the rules after their Bolero routine & made it mandatory that a minimum of certain moves had to be incorporated in freestyle - thereby making something as atmospheric as Bolero, or anything like it, impossible to enter.
Steve Ennever oh Ayr up and enjoy this beauty 🥳☺️😊 😉 xx
I wonder why the rules are changed right after such beautiful routine showcase. Same thing happened with gymnastics during the summer olympics. Why sacrificing artistry for almost acrobatics? dunno.
because it is much easier to mark acrobatics.
@@CesarJuarezVargas Because too many people were imitating them instead of bringing something original to the table.
That is the first time I've ever heard someone describe this performance as 'not difficult'. Maybe, just maybe, it was because Torvill & Dean made it look that way?
I don't think he said "not difficult." If you listen carefully, I BELIEVE he said "Not TYPICAL."
amorelle hill You can't listen to words.... get your facts right.
I didn't state it as a fact but I watched it when it was first on TV and I know that Dick Button was as in awe as everybody else. Geeze, snotty much?
You're right, he did say " perhaps not difficult".
With respect, that routine was incredibly technically difficult. Example, watch at 2:07 forward, Chris is skating backwards with bent knee on one leg, carrying Jane's weight with his raised leg & right arm. And they, Jane had to hold herself, made it look effortless.
That was the thing about this unique routine, it's easy to miss all the difficult technical stuff because it was mesmeric in its beauty. Dick just didn't see or understand how difficult ice dance is. In his discipline it was all about landing difficult jumps & receiving applause.
But in ice dance, it's all about making the difficult look easy, & carrying your audience with you through the performance.
So far, nobody's done it better than T&D.
David Keenan Exactly. I just rewatched this now, and got the same chills I did 30 years ago watching it the first time. Their skill was in taking the difficult, and making it flow like magical water.
I remember their performance, I had the pleasure of watching him live as a child on tv. Their performance was like the French revolution in figure skating
I know nothing about ice skating, but do know that this is absolute perfection.
Absolutely wonderful...I will never forget this performance...One of the best in history...
I remember watching this live, my family - we all held a collective breath!!!!! Still the most beautiful performance on Ice - nothing has come close! They were the best and still are.................. fantastic thank you Jayne & Chris - so proud to be British!
Pas de quoi être fier !
ecocotier Seriously?
This will never be topped. Ever.
This was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. I remember watching it. This many years later and it’s never been outdone by anyone else.
Still stunning.
BOOLERO
33 years later and I couldn't take my eyes off the screen for 1 second !
this was so intimately beautiful. it was sensational. this is a routine I'll have no problem replaying over & over again
I so clearly remember 1984 when they did this number. I got goosebumps (and just did when I watched it again.) It was some kind of magic; everybody was mezmerized. I still remember Peggy Fleming saying "we're so lucky to be here". To my knowledge only one other couple has tried to dance to Bolero in competition SINCE then and they were actually booed. I don't think anyone will ever try it again - it belongs to them and to those magic moments in 1984. I had it on tape - still do; this and the 1994 10-yr anniversary performance, but I need it on DVD. :) Just amazing and I can't watch ice dancing without thinking of them.
Yet if you watch the UK Dancing on Ice, a final skate-off to Bolero is evidently a tradition in the last round of the Grand Finale -- and Jayne and Christopher are two of the judges on the panel!
I was 7 in 1984. I remember drawing a picture of them dancing Bolero for Primary School. Still gives me goose pimples.
I had to come look this up because I watched James Acaster's "Repertoire" on Netflix, and he notes that the reason they started out on their knees here, is because Bolero runs longer than the amount of time that ice dancers are allowed to skate in the event. BUT the clock doesn't start until both skaters' blades touch the ice. So they begin their performance on their knees so that the clock and the music fit.
Everynow and then I check this youtube video to see if anyone is still watching Bolero 29 years after it was first performed. And people still are. Today. The number of views is:
2,180,758. Going to come back in a week to see how many people are still watching it and admiring the artistry of this dance and the amazing performance of the dancers.
Just wow...I have never seen anyone come close to this and the music is so powerful
Just sublime, magical...this piece/dance became a "never to be repeated or never to be touched" by anybody else when it comes ti Ice skating...just the best
Perfection. I was born in 1984...thankful for CZcams to catch up with this stunning performance on my own time!
Looking forward to Sochi Olympics. It's been 30 years since this performance and I've yet to see any other ice dancing or skating routine as flowing, flawless and beautiful as this one by Torvill & Dean. How time flies and the world changes. No more Yugoslavia or Sarajevo.
I'm sure this year's ice dancing will be wonderful, but nobody can ever top this performance by Torvill and Dean
Gracias Es espectacular hermoso,es algo que llena mi corazón de Felicidad.,
I never really thought much of Torvil and Dean before because i just knew them as the professional ice skaters on "Dancing on ice" and you can't blame me, this was 9 years before my time.
But now i can see what elegant skaters they are, and i am astonished by their beauty.
It's such a beautiful routine! They're so good and they make it look so easy!!
Brought here by current (Feb 2018) comparisons of Virtue & Moir to Torvill & Dean. As a * Millenial * I never got to see this - so glad it's on CZcams!
You may think you've watched a magnificent ice dance routine, one for the ages, BUT .. you'll never see perfection like this ever again in your lifetime.
Beautiful and moving. As for rule changes, I guess this shows that sometimes less is more...
Me encanta esta melodía y esta pareja es como si volaran con suavidad y no por la velocidad, es como si ella persiguiera un sueño o al viento muy bello patinaje artístico uno de los mejores que he visto en la competencias
I saw it..the best thing on ice I've seen so far..beautiful !!
I suppose when he made this comment, he didn't think that 28 years later, people would still be watching this performance, and be awed and inspired by it.
34 years later and I haven't seen anything better. For sheer emotional connection and grace, this is the greatest ice dance ever and the standard by which every performance since has been judged.
Angles of the body, the speed, emotions, rotations, even bending of knees is completely connected and radiates the music... Their whole body and music become one. Pure perfection!
Yes, that is it. I love Charlie White and Meryl Davis for their perfection, but this performance by Torvill and Dean has something more in terms of elegance and consonance with the music. I shall never forget them.
Barbara Richards
While I appreciate this classic performance, and the innovative creativity of it, I can't honestly say it impresses me as much as what I've seen from Davis and White. They are so fluid and so perfectly responsive to the music, more than any pair I've seen... They are art in motion and they really move me. But Torvill and Dean will always be legends for what they did for the sport and I do respect them highly. And that beginning, wow... So memorable.
Katty, I wouldn't argue with you. The more I see of Davis and White the more I think they have moved the art of ice dancing to another level up. Your "But Torvill and Dean will always be legends for what they did for the sport and I do respect them highly" is perfect.
8Julieth8, Your comment really gets to what was so great about Torvill and Dean, I agree. Complete consonance from the first step, the first note. "Their whole body and music become one." But I also love Davis and White. I think that figure skating, perhaps particularly ice dancing, which seems almost more of an art form than the individual and pairs skating, starts to make me think of classical music, opera especially, in that the different performances often have equal levels of greatness but are very different from one another. As with Maria Callas and Joan Sutherland. Who was greater? I don't know - they were equally great in my mind.
There are occasions when TV commentators should just shut up and keep their ignorant opinions to themselves. This was one of them.
Exactly nowadays they'd be talking all the way through this.
It's so weird that no couple has surpassed their artistry. I haven't seen one couple as amazing as Torvill and Dean.
Awesome performance. These were actually one person with a little space between each other.
I don't think anyone has ever topped this !...Perfection !
still gives me goose bumps 22 years later. bravo!!
Thanks for posting! Was watching the current ice dancing, and my mom mentioned this couple, even after all these years, not only does she remember them and this routine, but it is still her favorite. :)
I remember watching this, edge of seat in 84 , never another team as great never as good of a performance! I am 72 now and still in awe!
30 years since perfection
Always wanted to skate like that
this is the 1st time i have seen this since it happened, we dont win much at the winters so......
it is the first time I've seen it since then as well.
Legendary performance
Utter brilliance and perfection. Even someone who has no time for ice dancing I will stop what I'm doing and watch this.
I never get tired of watching this routine, I don't think we will see such a beautiful and graceful routine like this again.
Today I saw them perform Bolero in person for the 4th time (the 1st time I've seen them on rollerskates) and it's still as breathtaking and mesmerising as the first time.
I'd heard about this....but this is the first time I've seen them dance the bolero.. absolutely fantastic.
still brilliant to watch after all these years....
The way they gliiiiiide 😍 mesmerising. Very clever choreography. There is a word in French that does not translate very well into English: complicité. For me, this is the embodiment of this word.
Thank you for sharing this. Haven't seen it in 30 years and it was every bit as awesome as I remember it being at the time.
Most of us who watch and enjoy don’t know the technicalities at first. But even when we pick it up, a beautiful performance with powerful music is a show stopper. Then everyone is an expert! Honestly after these many years it’s still a joy . But the build of the music was genius.
Fiona Newport You can thank the composer, Ravel, for his Bolero. He wrote it that way.
As a Brit, this is by far my most favourite British sporting moment. I remember watching it live as a child and being mesmerised.
OMG I still remember watching this live with my Mum and Dad (my Mum burst into Tears at the end!) I thought WHY?? Now I'm drying my Eyes, the most Phenomenal Ice Dance EVER (Especially when u watch current Olympics they are faultless & Breath taking, kudos also to choreography
Brilliant and I was glad to see the Original Performance which felt as good then; as it does now!
I don't know how to skate, but I do appreciate the exquisite artistry, strength, and compatibility needed to perform such perfection. I watched them win the medal back then, and I still am in awe. It doesn't hurt that this piece of music is a favorite of mine. If you haven't seen it performed live by a symphony orchestra, you're missing something fantastic!
I have watched this performance time and time again,and every time I'm transfixed.The music is stunning,building the anticipation of what's to come.They looked in total harmony,the outfits matched the whole performance.I hold my breath every time.This will never be matched.I love it.
This is the best ice skating video on youtube, love this, as i love ice skating xD
I remember the first time, and every time since.
The most tragic love story never told.
It was this program that made me love skating. I have watched it at every Olympics since this moment.
Nobody will ever surpass them for artistry and sheer perfection. They set the bar for everyone else to follow.
still breath taking, even after thirty years...
I thought it was supposed to be the Brits who were known for understatements, but this American commentator took the biscuit.
Still brings tears to my eyes! Such perfection, such poetry!
I watched this as it first happened, while on a ski vacation at Timberline on Mt. Hood. I remember being blown away by this amazing piece of skating. Still am blown away by it, 30+ years later. Mr. Dean is the matador, and Ms. Torvill is the cape. Stunning stuff.
This is and was perfection
Everyone note, that this is utter perfection?