Directory of Torvill and Dean Resources

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There are many Olympic medalists and world champions in figure skating, but only a few are all of those things and more. British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean introduced new concepts and themes transforming the sport from a mirror of ballroom dancing to a balletic and artistic interpretation suitable for ice and stage. At a time when figure skating attracted attention only during the Olympic years, Torvill and Dean brought the sport into the world's attention first with their sensuous free dance of Ravel's Bolero to their enormously popular ice shows.

Resources in This Category

• BBC Desert Island Discs: Torvill and Dean

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/452023ef#b03vd02p
  Kirsty Young talks to Olympic ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

• Ice Dancing's Proper Revolutionaries

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/memories/84-t&dside.htm
  Washington Post article on the ice dancers on their return home after the Sarajevo Olympics.

• ITV - Dancing on Ice

  http://dancingonice.itv.com/
  British television programme starring Torvill and Dean as coaches to celebrities learning to ice dance and competing each week. Torvill and Dean also perform. Includes videos of performances.

• Stars on Ice 1997

  http://www.ualberta.ca/~droles/skate/stars2/stars2.html
  Fan photographs taken at the ice show with pictures of all participating skaters.

• Torvill, Dean Win Crowd, Lose Judges

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/olympics1998/history/1994/articles/94-icedance.htm
  Washington Post article on Lillehammer figure skating results.

 

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